With the White House shining in the background, Kamala Harris called on the fading and undetermined American people to elect a “new generation of leaders,” calling Donald Trump, who stood in the exact same spot nearly four years ago, to elect a “new generation of leaders.” In a last-gasp effort to hang on to power, he helped incite the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Harris said that the choice between her and Trump in the deadlocked presidential race is “a choice between having a country rooted in freedom for all Americans or a country dominated by chaos and division.” ” he said. The number of supporters gathered one week before the final votes were cast for the 2024 election.
“I ask for your vote,” she told the crowd that spilled across the park toward the Washington Monument and many more watching from home.
In a speech her campaign called a “closing argument” between former prosecutors and jurors, Ms. Harris repeatedly waved her head and said that as the 47th president, she would continue to talk about lowering prices and national security. I explained the progress I hoped to make. Addressing abortion rights and immigration.
“In less than 90 days, either Donald Trump or I will be in the Oval Office,” he said, chanting “Kamala! Kamala!” and “Kamala!” from the crowd the campaign estimated at 75,000. “If elected, on the first day… “Donald Trump will walk into the Oval Office with a list of his enemies,” she continued. “If I am elected, I will come to work with a to-do list.”
The oval park also served as a reminder of President Trump’s actions on January 6th. President Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell” and walk to the Capitol, where Congress will certify Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. An exasperated and “obsessed with vengeance”, Trump is “seeking unchecked power”, Harris warned, and will spend the next four years focused on his own problems, not the country’s. insisted.
Harris has framed the stakes of the 2024 election as nothing less than preserving American democracy, a far cry from the dark and racist themes that animated Trump’s discontent rally at Madison Square Garden. In contrast, I tried to provide an optimistic and hopeful tone. Harris called on Americans to “turn the page” on the Trump era and “start writing the next chapter of the most amazing story ever told.” Americans have forgotten, she says, that “it doesn’t have to be this way.”
President Trump dismissed criticism of the rally earlier Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, calling it “an absolute celebration of love.”
The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, Ms. Harris participated in the civil rights movement with her parents as a toddler, watching her mother sit at the kitchen table, “with a cup of tea in hand,” staring at bills. I recalled my memories.
“I have lived up to America’s promise,” Harris said, without explicitly mentioning the history-making nature of her candidacy, calling generations of “patriots” from Normandy to Normandy. Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall.
“They did not fight, sacrifice, and give their lives just to see us give up our basic freedoms, but to see us submit to the will of another vile tyrant. I just wanted to see it,” she said, raising her voice to declare: America is not a vessel for a would-be dictator’s conspiracy. ”
In recent days, Harris has increasingly warned that her opponent is leaning toward authoritarianism and outright xenophobia. His campaign has run ads featuring Trump’s former chief of staff, Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, claiming that Trump meets the definition of a fascist. Harris said he agreed.
In her remarks, Harris attempted to balance existential and economic considerations, focusing on the threat President Trump poses to American institutions while incorporating her plans to lower prices and grow the middle class. She portrayed President Trump as a tool of the billionaire class who will eliminate what remains of abortion access and stand in the way of bipartisan compromise when it doesn’t suit him politically. .
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In response to her elliptical speech, a Trump campaign spokesperson accused the vice president of “lying, name-calling and clinging to the past.”
According to polls, the race between Trump and Harris is virtually even in the seven battleground states that will decide the presidential election.
President Trump has sought to rewrite history on January 6, the culmination of an attempt to cling to power that culminated in the first siege of the U.S. Capitol since British troops set it on fire during the War of 1812. There is. President Trump recently called the attack a “day of love” and, if elected, would pardon the January 6 rioters, whom he called “patriots” and “hostages.” Then he said.
Hundreds of supporters have been convicted and jailed for their actions at the Capitol, while federal prosecutors accuse President Trump of coordinating efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden I am doing it. President Trump insists he played no role in inciting the violence that unfolded and continues to baselessly claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
At a news conference Tuesday morning, Harris’ campaign expressed bullishness about her prospects. “We know there are still many voters who are undecided about who to support, or whether to vote at all,” Harris campaign chairwoman Jennifer O’Malley Dillon told reporters before Tuesday’s remarks. “I’m working on it,” he said. She said many Americans are “exhausted” by the tribalism and polarization that President Trump has intensified since his political rise in 2016.
In the shortened 100-day campaign that Harris took over from Biden after Biden resigned in July, the Democratic candidate unified the party, raised more than $1 billion, covered the airwaves and electrified battleground states. attacked. Still, the race to determine who will win the White House remains hotly contested both nationally and in seven battleground states.
After the speech, Ms. Harris will return to the campaign trail, continuing her breakneck pace in what her campaign calls an “election with a margin of error.”
“We’re seeing very good signs across the battleground states, especially in the Blue Walls,” O’Malley Dillon said in a Tuesday morning call, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Harris has been on the offensive in recent weeks. mentioned the state. “And we see that we are on pace to win a very close election.”
