On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris presented her final argument against former President Donald Trump at the same location where, on January 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to “fight like hell.” That rally ultimately led to the march on the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the certification of President Biden’s victory.
Harris said, “We know who Donald Trump is, he is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost.”
“America, we know what Donald Trump has in mind. More chaos. More division. And policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path. And I ask for your vote,” she said.
Speaking to a large crowd at the Ellipse near the White House, Harris aimed to highlight the differences between her vision for the country and Trump’s, hoping to sway undecided voters with just a week left before Election Day.
Harris described her Republican opponent as “unstable,” “fixated on revenge,” “driven by grievances,” and “hungry for unchecked power.” She argued that Trump would come back to the White House “with a list of enemies,” whereas she would arrive “with a to-do list.”
“Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That’s who he is,” she said. “But America, I am here tonight to say: that’s not who we are.”
“We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division. It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” she said. “I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.”
Harris promised to improve Americans’ lives with “practical solutions” and a commitment to “finding common ground.”
“I pledge to listen to experts, to those who will be impacted by the decisions I make and to people who disagree with me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at my table,” she said.
Before the speech, Harris’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, explained that the Ellipse was chosen as the location because “it’s a place that we believe clearly underscores the choice in this election.”
“We know a lot of these undecided voters, they’re exhausted,” she said. “They’re certainly frustrated by the state of the partisanship and divided political system that really was defined under Donald Trump.”
On Monday, Harris told reporters that Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City the previous day reinforced her case against him. Speakers at the event made offensive, vulgar, and racist comments about minorities and Harris.
“That’s why people who formerly support Donald Trump, have voted for him, are supporting me, voting for me,” she said. “He fans the fuel of hate and division, and that’s why people are exhausted with him.”
On Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland, President Biden told reporters he would be watching Harris’s speech while out getting ice cream. When asked why he wouldn’t attend in person, he explained, “It’s her night.”
A campaign official reported that over 75,000 people gathered on the National Mall for Harris’s address.
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