02-23) 08:09 PST NEW YORK (AP) --
Democratic front-runner John Kerry predicted Monday that President Bush will "run away from his own record" when the president unveils a campaign speech that advisers say will highlight his policies on homeland security, tax cuts and other issues.
"We have George Bush on the run because he's going to go out here and start this campaign officially tonight before we even have a nominee of the Democratic Party," Kerry told supporters at a rally in Harlem. "And he's going to lay out what he calls his vision, and I think it's extraordinary that four years into this administration we're finally going to get what this president calls his vision for the nation. He certainly has to call something a vision because he can't run on his record."
Kerry said the nation has lost 3 million jobs and has grown weaker and more isolated from its allies under Bush, whose tax cuts and other economic policies the Massachusetts senator criticized.
"The president tonight will lay out what he calls a vision. I believe what he will do tonight is run away from his own record because he doesn't have a record to run on," Kerry said.
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