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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on Tuesday told a business-orientated crowd at a breakfast in New Hampshire that success should be celebrated rather than scorned.

“So this discussion from my perspective is not about saying, you know, people who have worked hard and gained success should be vilified. I don’t believe that, I applaud that, that’s pursuit of the American Dream,” Harris said in New Hampshire. “But I also recognize, and if we’re having an honest conversation we must all recognize, that the rules aren’t applying equally to all people in our country, that not all people in our country have equal access to a path toward success.”

The first-term senator and former California attorney general on Tuesday said some of her ideas to address inequality included repealing the tax reforms introduced by President Trump and congressional Republicans, instead rolling out a tax credit aimed at alleviating some housing costs for eligible recipients.

Harris, who spent President’s Day in New Hampshire, made the comments at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ “Politics and Eggs” speaker series, an event frequently attended by business leaders. The trip is her first to the early-voting state since she announced her White House bid last month. Her remarks come after many Democratic presidential contenders have criticized billionaires, specifically Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg, who are considering 2020 runs.

Harris promised she would compete in the state against other Democratic candidates.

“One of the first questions I was asked, and so I’m bringing this up because I just want to get this off the table, do you plan on spending any time here? Are you going to compete here?’ Harris said Tuesday. “And I want to let everybody know I plan on competing hard in New Hampshire, and plan on doing well here.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, who vied for the Democratic 2016 presidential nomination, bested Hillary Clinton in the state that year by more than 20 percentage points. Sanders entered the 2020 race on Tuesday morning, vowing this time would be different because he’s “going to win.”