With just a week to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered what her campaign called a “closing argument” Tuesday from the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., in which she vowed to “always put country before party and before self.” ”

As Donald Trump rallied supporters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday evening, the setting for Harris’ speech carried its own message. It was the same place where then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 urged his followers to “fight like hell” and march to the Capitol to protest the congressional certification of his 2020 Electoral College loss to Joe Biden . A deadly riot ensued, with Trump watching the chaos from the White House, delaying proceedings for several hours before Biden was officially confirmed as the 46th US president.

With national and swing state polls showing Harris and Trump in a virtual dead heat, the vice president’s rally drew a huge crowd, estimated at 75,000 people, who filled the Ellipse and spilled onto the National Mall. These are the main takeaways from her speech.

Harris summarizes ‘the choice’

As sirens and car alarms blared in the background in an apparent act of protest, Harris began to frame the election as “a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division.”

“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He is the person who stood in this very place almost four years ago and sent an armed mob into the United States Capitol to overthrow the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election he knew he had lost ” said Harris.

“He has an enemies list of people he wants to prosecute,” she added. “He says one of his highest priorities is to release the violent extremists who attacked these law enforcement officers on January 6. Donald Trump plans to use the US military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls ‘the enemy from within’. America, this is not a presidential candidate thinking about how to improve your life. This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with resentment and bent on unchecked power.”

Harris told her audience “that’s not who we are” and then embraced her own belief that the Latin phrase printed on U.S. currency, “E pluribus unum,” which translates to “out of many, one,” “a living truth is about the heart of our nation.”

“Just because someone disagrees with us does not make him or her ‘the enemy within,’” she said, adding, “As Americans, we rise together and we fall together.”

Harris went on to portray her candidacy as a way 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 and I am prepared to provide that leadership as the next President of the United States of America.”

Later in her speech, she promised to be “a president for all Americans. To always put the country above the party and above oneself.’

She still introduces herself to voters

Harris acknowledged that “this was not a typical campaign.” Her entry into the race came just three months ago, after concerns about Biden’s age prompted Democrats to convince him to leave the race. In the ensuing sprint, Harris has at times struggled to introduce herself to voters, “even though I have had the honor of being your vice president for the past four years,” she said Tuesday, adding, “But I know many of you are still getting to know who I am.

Harris then touted her work experience outside Washington, especially as attorney general of the state of California, saying she has “always had an instinct to protect.”

‘This is what I promise you. I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me. I will always tell you the truth, even if it is hard to hear. I will work every day to build consensus and make compromises to get things done,” she said in her pitch to voters.

“If he were elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office on day one with a list of enemies,” Harris said. “If I am elected, I will walk in with a to-do list.”

Abortion rights

Harris rarely misses an opportunity to announce her intention to work to restore women’s right to abortion nationwide, and she reiterated Tuesday that in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to Roe v. Wade “One in three women in America lives in a state with Trump’s abortion ban, many without exceptions for rape and incest.”

“Trump is not done yet. He would ban abortion nationwide,” Harris said, “restrict access to contraception, jeopardize IVF treatments and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies.”

However, Trump has made no such commitments.

Harris did acknowledge that to restore protections against abortion, she would need support from Congress.

“If Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom across the country, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” she said.

‘Road to citizenship’ for some immigrants

Harris again pledged that, if elected, she would sign a bipartisan border security bill — one that was torpedoed by Trump earlier this year — into law.

Saying she would “give the Border Patrol the support they so desperately need,” Harris added, “At the same time, we must recognize that we are a nation of immigrants, and I will work with Congress to pass immigration reform, including deserved immigration reform. path to citizenship for hardworking immigrants like farmworkers and our Dreamers.”

Many Republicans are against offering a path to citizenship. Trump has also promised the largest deportation of immigrants to the US in the country’s history.