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    Kamala Harris urges voters to go further than Trump in DC speech

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    WASHINGTON — With the White House lit up behind her, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a plea Tuesday night for undecided voters to “turn the page” on Donald Trump as she sought to continue the Ellipse’s legacy from the 6 Republican elections. January to rewrite. speech that preceded an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

    Harris’ speech at times touched on the optimistic approach she said she would bring to the presidency. The Democratic presidential candidate pivoted to Trump and also blasted her Republican opponent for causing unrest while he was in the White House.

    “In America, we have been consumed with too much division, chaos and mutual distrust for too long. It can be easy then to forget a simple truth: It doesn’t have to be this way,” Harris said. “We need to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and the division.”

    She told a crowd her campaign estimated at 75,000 people: “It’s time for a new generation of leadership in America. And I am prepared to provide that leadership.”

    With a week to go until Election Day on Nov. 5, Harris and Trump have traded insults as they crisscross the country in an effort to drum up support in a race that is statistically tied. The two politicians have made last-ditch efforts to appeal to disengaged voters by hosting large, high-profile events, such as Trump’s controversial rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night and Harris’ speech at the Ellipse on Tuesday night.

    Throughout the campaign, Trump has blamed Harris for inflation and high prices across the country. He has also called out the incumbent Democratic vice president on the Biden administration’s immigration policies, saying she is responsible for the increase in the number of migrants coming to the United States.

    In a prepared statement on Tuesday, Trump’s campaign denounced Harris’ speech for its “dark, angry and negative message marked by its sheer desperation.”

    “While Kamala is divisive, President Trump is sharpening the issues that matter to voters – fixing the economy, securing the border, protecting American freedoms and restoring America’s strength across the world. world,” the Trump campaign said.

    Harris’ comments were aimed primarily at Americans watching at home who may not plan to vote in the election. She also acknowledged in her speech that many of those at the meeting have likely already cast their votes.

    For those who haven’t, she told them, “We know who Donald Trump is, he is the person who stood in this place almost four years ago and sent an armed mob to the Capitol to overthrow the will of the people in the destroy the country. a free and fair election. An election he knew he had lost.”

    She said she would offer a different path than Trump or President Joe Biden if elected on Nov. 5.

    “My presidency will be different because the challenges we face are different,” she said, adding that she and Biden were focused four years ago on ending the pandemic and bringing down the economy. “Now our biggest challenge is to reduce costs, costs that were already rising before the pandemic and are still too high.”

    The vice president has been repeatedly asked how she will differ from the current administration, but he has been reluctant to draw a contrast between her and Biden.

    Harris pledged to work with all Americans and touted her proposals to lower costs for Americans, including a federal ban on price gouging, capping insulin prices and supporting first-time homebuyers.

    With a week left until Election Day, Harris also acknowledged that she is still introducing herself to voters who may not know who she is.

    While Harris promised in her speech to take the United States in a new direction if elected, comments from Biden earlier Tuesday drew the spotlight away from his vice president.

    In response to racist comments a comedian made at Trump’s rally on Sunday about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of trash,” Biden said during a virtual event with Voto Latino: “The only trash I see floating out there is that of his supporters – his – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American,” according to a transcript released by the White House.

    Biden’s comments drew immediate backlash from Republican lawmakers and from Trump, who held a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at the same time as Harris’ event on Tuesday evening. Trump said Biden’s comments were “appalling” and compared them to Hillary Clinton’s comments calling some of his supporters “deplorable” during the 2016 presidential campaign that he won.

    Biden later wrote in a post on

    ‘Reclaiming’ of the Ellipse from January 6

    Before her speech, thousands of Harris supporters waited in a line that snaked up and down 15th Street in Washington, D.C., from the National Mall to Pennsylvania Avenue.

    Street vendors walked through the crowd selling T-shirts, buttons and other items supporting the Democratic candidate. Music filled the air as a hum of voices waited to be allowed onto the Ellipse. Many attendees wore clothing supporting Harris’ candidacy, while others wore shirts that read “Vote” and “Black Lives Matter.” Some attendees dressed as Harris’ signature shoe: Converse.

    During the event, a DJ played songs like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” — both artists have endorsed the vice president. The DJ also played a Trump campaign classic, the Village People’s YMCA

    Volunteers handed out a range of snacks including cotton candy, pop tarts and fruit snacks. At the end of the evening, volunteers gave away any surplus cotton candy.

    Daraja Carroll, 28, lives a few blocks away from the White House and rode a scooter to the event with her friend, Sharlie Goodson, 29. Like Harris, Carroll is from California — the same place where Harris first served as an officer of Justice, San Francisco. And like Harris, Carroll dreams of one day becoming attorney general.

    “I just couldn’t sit on my couch,” she said. “I am a black female lawyer. I am a descendant of enslaved people. I am a history buff who knows my family’s history… There are so many reasons why I came today to support her. I felt like I couldn’t stay at home.”

    Four years ago, Carroll participated in a block party at St. John’s Lafayette Square church — the same venue Trump vacated during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest after Biden defeated Trump. At the time, Carroll said they were reclaiming that space.

    Now Harris is demanding the Ellipse back, she said.

    “Because you don’t respect black history in the city either, but here we are reclaiming it,” she said. “Being in DC, as the slaves built it, and for her to stand on this stage in front of these buildings built by my ancestors and disrespected by these racist white people is special. We have to reclaim it.”

    Tosha Taylor of Hughesville, Maryland, said Harris’ rally is a “marked contrast” from the Trump rally Americans saw four years ago. Taylor, an Air Force and Army veteran, said Harris’ event is “full of solidarity and love for country and true patriotism.”

    But Trump’s Jan. 6 rally was “full of hate,” Taylor said.

    “This is completely different,” the 53-year-old said. “Put the two photos side by side. You see solidarity, happiness and joy and pro-country. The other is anti-national and is trying to overthrow your government. It was full of hate and violence and all kinds of crazy things and wannabe patriots.”

    Suzy Wagner and her husband, Eric, said they believe Harris hit the nail on the head of why voters should support her.

    “Everything he came out with was the antithesis of what he said and the fear mongering he put out,” said Suzy Wagner, 54, of Arlington, Virginia. “We just got over it.”

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