Harris warns of dangers of new Trump presidency

On Tuesday night, Harris spoke at an outdoor rally her campaign estimates drew more than 75,000 people at the site near the White House where Trump addressed his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, before they attacked the U.S. Capitol.

“We know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said. She said the then-president sent an “armed mob” to the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

“This is a man who is unstable, obsessed with vengeance, consumed by grievances and seeking unchecked power,” Harris said in what her campaign called her closing argument before the hotly contested Nov. 5 election.

More than 53 million Americans have already voted in the election, according to the University of Florida’s Election Hub, in a battle that will decide who will govern the world’s richest and most powerful country for four years.

Harris stood on stage surrounded by American flags and flanked by blue and white banners that read “LIBERTY,” with the well-lit White House behind her.

The crowd included seniors and college students, people from overseas, from New York and neighboring Virginia. Many women came in groups with other friends.

“It’s important that we don’t return to President Trump’s terrible past policies,” said Saul Schwartz, a former federal employee from Alexandria, Virginia.

“She has everything I always wanted to see in a president. She is joyful. She is real, she is powerful. And she’s a woman,” said Danielle Hoffmann of Staten Island, New York. “It’s time for you guys… to take a back seat because we’re on our way now,” she said, addressing men in general. Her husband, she noted, is a Trump supporter.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed Harris’ lead had slipped to 44% to 43% among registered voters.

Harris has led Trump in every Reuters/Ipsos poll since she entered the race in July, but her lead has been steadily shrinking since late September.

Trump and his allies have tried to downplay the violence that occurred on January 6.

Thousands of his supporters stormed the Capitol, forcing lawmakers to flee for their lives after Trump spoke at the Ellipse, where, as president in 2021, he ordered the crowd to “fight like hell” to stop Congress from ratifying his defeat.

The riots at the Capitol that followed killed four people, and the next day killed one police officer defending the Capitol. Trump has said that if re-elected, he would pardon more than 1,500 members convicted of crimes.

“We have to stop pointing fingers and start clasping hands,” Harris told a crowd in Washington on Tuesday, urging Americans to put their differences behind them.

TRUMP CALLED THE RALLY IN NEW YORK AN “ABSOLUTE LOVE FESTIVAL”

Earlier in the day in Florida, Trump tried to walk back racist and other vulgar remarks made by his allies at his rally in New York on Sunday.

Trump did not comment on remarks made by speakers at Sunday’s event, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and disparaged black Americans, Jews, Palestinians and Latinos.

The Trump campaign has previously said comments about Puerto Rico do not reflect the former president’s views, but Trump on Tuesday called the event in New York “an absolute love fest” and said he was honored to take part.

President Joe Biden has drawn the ire of the Trump campaign over remarks he made about Sunday’s rally during a fundraising call on Tuesday.

According to a transcript released by a White House spokesman on X, Biden said: “The only garbage I see is his supporter’s demonization of Latinos, his supporter’s, it’s unconscionable and un-American.”

Several news outlets cited the same quote, but without the apostrophe.

Biden later wrote on X, a social media site: “Earlier today, I called the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by a Trump supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally trash—and that’s the only word I can think of to describe it . The demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I wanted to say. The comments at this rally do not reflect who we are as a nation.”

During Harris’ appearance in Washington, Trump visited the predominantly Latino Pennsylvania town, two days after Hinchcliffe’s comments about Puerto Rico sparked outrage at a rally in New York.

The U.S. Census Bureau says Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino group in Pennsylvania, the state that has the most Electoral College votes out of the seven battleground states expected to decide the election.

“I’d like to start with a very, very simple question: Are you better now than you were four years ago? I am here today with a message of hope for all Americans,” Trump said.

Harris, who will be the first female president, and Trump, who is seeking to return to office after his 2017-2021 term, are at odds over support for Ukraine and NATO, abortion rights, taxes, core democratic principles and tariffs that could trigger trade. war.

When talking about tariffs, Trump directly mentioned the European Union on Tuesday. “They are brutal,” he said in Pennsylvania. “They sell millions and millions of cars in the United States. No, no, no, they will have to pay a big price.”