WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris will pledge Tuesday to “put country above party and above herself” in the closing arguments of her presidential campaign, to be delivered from the same spot where Donald Trump incited the insurrection at the Capitol, hoping that this is a stark visualization of the choice facing voters.

Harris is expected to deliver her remarks at the Ellipse at 7:30 PM EDT. Watch it in the player above.

A week after Election Day, the vice president was expected to use her 7:30 p.m. ET speech from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to promise Americans she will work to improve their lives, while arguing that her Republican opponent is just in it. for themselves.

Trump “spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other: that’s who he is,” Harris will say, according to prepared remarks released by her campaign. “But America, I’m here tonight to say, that’s not who we are.”

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She hoped to heighten that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the very spot where Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, spewed falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, inspiring a crowd to march on the Capitol and unsuccessfully attempt to certify Democrat Joe’s diplomats to stop Biden. victory.

With time running out and the race tight, Harris and Trump have both looked for big moments to try to change the momentum their way.

“It’s a place that we certainly believe will help crystallize the choice in this election,” Harris campaign chairman Jen O’Malley Dillon said of the setting, calling it “a stark visualization of probably the most infamous example of Donald Trump and how he his power for evil.”

Campaign aides emphasized that Harris will not deliver a treatise on democracy — a staple of President Joe Biden’s efforts to draw a contrast with Trump — or spend too much time focusing directly on the day’s shocking images. Harris aides said the vice president wants to make a broader case for why voters should reject Trump and consider what she has to offer.

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“He has an enemy list of people he wants to prosecute,” Harris said. “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’. This is not a presidential candidate thinking about how to improve your life.”

Her campaign hoped to draw a huge crowd to Washington for the event. But more importantly, her campaign hopes the setting will help capture the attention of battleground voters who still don’t know who to vote for — or vote at all.

The speech comes days after Harris traveled to Texas, a reliably Republican state, to appear with megastar Beyoncé and highlight the impact on women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That, too, was a speech intended to resonate with voters far away in the battleground states.

The vice president’s final address has been in the works for weeks. But aides hoped her message would have more impact after Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where speakers hurled cruel and racist insults. Harris said the event “underscored the point I made throughout this campaign.”

“He is focused and basically fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country,” she said.

Harris was expected to use her speech to lay out a pragmatic and forward-looking plan for the country, including reminding voters of her economic proposals and pledging to commit to access to reproductive care, including abortion.

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“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” Harris said. “He wants to put them in jail. I give them a place at my table. And I promise to be a president for all Americans. To always put the country above the party and above oneself.’

Also central to her message: positioning herself as a “new generation” leader after Trump and even her current boss, Biden. She will “talk about what her next generation of leadership really means, focusing on the American people and what they care about,” O’Malley Dillon said.

As for Trump, Harris said Monday: “People are literally ready to turn the page. They are tired of it.”

Ahead of Harris’ speech, Trump used remarks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday morning to accuse Harris of closing with a message that doesn’t address the everyday issues and kitchen table issues of everyday Americans. to assure.

He said Harris “keeps talking about Hitler and Nazis because her record is terrible,” a reference to Harris amplifying his former chief of staff’s warnings that Trump spoke admiringly of the Nazi leader while in office.

Harris’ aides, many of whom also advised Biden’s campaign before he quit, still believe focusing the race on who Trump is and how she is different will be their strongest message to voters.

“She’s already made her case, she’s presented the evidence. She’s coming out with a summons tonight and she has confidence in the wisdom of the jury,” said Michael Tyler, director of campaign communications.

Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he will not attend Harris’ speech because the event is “for her,” but he planned to watch it on television.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said it was important that battleground voters be reminded of the consequences of their choice this fall and that Harris “really highlighted the stakes of this election and the stark contrast in the race would make.”

He said Harris made the strongest argument on economic policy, reproductive freedom and the issue of chaos versus order, adding that she “has a vision that will bring more order, more hope and more joy.”

Ruth Chiari, 78, of Charlottesville, Virginia, attended the rally with her husband to “support democracy.”

“I think everyone understands what’s on the ballot,” she said as she stood in line at the Treasury building to enter the event. “We either get an autocrat or freedom.”

Harris spent the day before her speech taping television interviews that aired in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and Spanish-language radio in Pennsylvania, her campaign said.

Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price in Palm Beach, Florida, Ayana Alexander in Baltimore, and Fatima Hussein and Gary Fields in Washington contributed to this report.