Kamala Harris pits herself against Trump in elliptical White House speech

Kamala Harris hoped draw sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump on Tuesday in a speech billed as her campaign finale, at the same venue where Trump urged his followers storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Just a week before Election Day, Harris went to the White House Ellipse to make final serve that she will improve the lives of ordinary Americans, while maintaining that Trump is focused only on himself.

“Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid,” Harris said. “But America, I’m here tonight to say: That’s not who we are.”

“Donald Trump has more chaos and division in mind,” she said. “He won’t try to make your life better.”

In addition to attacking Trump, Harris portrayed herself as a capable leader capable of getting things done. reach the aisle work with Republicans and solve national problems.

“I am committed to finding common ground and common sense solutions to make your life better. I’m not trying to score political points. I hope for progress,” she said.

The place itself offered dramatic blow to Trumpwho used his Jan. 6 speech there to incite a mob of his extremist supporters to try to overturn his 2020 defeat by President Joe Biden.

“We believe this seat will help crystallize the choices in this election,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters Tuesday during a preview of her speech. “(This is) a powerful visualization of perhaps the most infamous example of Donald Trump and how he used his power for harm.”

But Harris campaign aides insisted the speech would not Biden style call for American voters to save democracy by voting against Trump.

Instead, the Democratic candidate made a broader appeal to voters to give her a mandate to “turn the page” on Trump’s 12 tumultuous years in the center of political attention.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are enemies,” Harris said. “I will give them a seat at my table. And I promise to be the president of all Americans. Always put the country above the party and above yourself.”

Her campaign was expected to draw a huge crowd of up to 52,000 people to Washington for the event. This has undoubtedly drawn comparisons to the angry Jan. 6 rally that Trump has now held. praises as “day of love” and one of the largest crowds he had ever seen.

Harris laid out a pragmatic and forward-looking plan for the country, including reminding voters of her economic proposals and vowing to fight for abortion rights. popular issue motivating Democrats for the elections.

Harris also took advantage still spreading outrage over racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and others at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, which featured a comedian mocking Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

“He is focused and actually fixated on his grievances, on himself and on the division of our country,” Harris said.

Trump gave his own speech Tuesday night in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the vibrant Lehigh Valley, that could help determine the winner the hottest battlefield state.

Even though Allentown has a large Puerto Rican community, Trump has refused to apologize for ugly rhetoric at his MSG rally.

The speeches come as polls show Trump and Harris remain caught in a dead heat race.

Harris leads most national popular vote polls, but it is the photo finish in the seven battleground states that will likely determine the winner of the White House.

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