Harris will deliver keynote address from the site where Trump incited the Capitol riot

Vice President Kamala Harris will promise Americans she will work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is in it for himself, delivering his campaign closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president incited the Capitol insurrection in 2021.

A week before Election Day, Ms Harris’s address from the grassy ellipse outside the White House is intended to encourage Americans to visualize their alternative futures if she or Mr Trump takes charge of the Oval Office in less than three months.

She had hoped to deepen that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the spot where, on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Trump spewed lies about the 2020 presidential election that inspired a mob to march to the Capitol and unsuccessfully try to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and the sealing of his own defeats.

As time runs out and the race becomes tight, Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump have both been looking for big moments to try to swing the tide one way or the other.

But after her speech in the nation’s capital, Ms. Harris will return to fiercely competing for votes at one rally and one event after another in battleground states.

On Tuesday, aides said, Ms. Harris intends to move beyond striking images of her location on the Ellipse to make a broader case for voters to reject Mr. Trump and consider what she offers.

“There is a big difference between him and me,” Ms. Harris told reporters on Monday, introducing her speech.

“If he’s elected, on day one he’ll be sitting in the Oval Office working on his list of enemies.

“On day one, if elected, which I fully expect, I will have working on behalf of the American people on my to-do list.”

Campaign aides have stressed that she will not deliver a treatise on democracy, which is a centerpiece of President Biden’s attempts to create a contrast with Mr. Trump.

But her campaign hopes the environment will help reach voters in states who remain undecided about who to vote for—or whether to vote at all.

Trump was planning to use scheduled remarks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday morning to try to preemptively rebut Harris’ speech, according to a person familiar with the matter.