WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Kamala Harris will deliver her campaign’s “closing argument” Tuesday from the same Washington venue where Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

She chose the spot to contrast her vision for the country with Trump’s continued lies about the 2020 election and the risks she says his return to the White House would pose to the nation.

In 2021, thousands of his supporters sat on the grassy ellipse just off Constitution Avenue, not far from the Washington Monument, as an angry Trump told his supporters that the election had been stolen from him.

“We’re not going to take it anymore and that’s what this is about,” Trump told the crowd. “And to use a favorite term you’ve really thought about: We’re going to stop the theft. Today I will present just some of the evidence that proves that we won this election, and we won it by a landslide. It was not a close election.

” And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore.”

Some details about what led up to Trump’s Jan. 6 appearance on the Ellipse and what happened.

Trump’s speech came after weeks of failed legal challenges in which Trump claimed widespread voter fraud. His lawyers presented unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, including the idea that the voting machines were created in Venezuela under the leadership of Hugo Chavez. The challenges were strongly rejected, including by judges who had been appointed by Trump himself or other Republicans.

Members of Trump’s own cabinet said there was no widespread fraud but the ideas were nevertheless embraced by supporters and persisted. Trump has since been criminally charged for his efforts to overturn the election.

Congressional certification of the results of the presidential vote is normally a routine part of the electoral process. But Trump tried, through failed lawsuits, and personal election appeals officials, to overturn the results.

Trump tweeted on December 19, 2020: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, you’ll be wild!”

In his speech, Trump cataloged his failed arguments in court and told the crowd he hoped then-Vice President Mike Pence would refuse to certify the election results when he appeared before lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

“I hope Mike does the right thing. I hope so. I hope so,” Trump said.

“Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election… He has the absolute right to do it. We should protect our country, support our country, uphold our Constitution and protect our Constitution.”

Trump continued to blame “Fake news media” and “radical left democrats” for stealing the election.

“All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which they are doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That’s what they did and what they do. We will never give up, we will never give in. It doesn’t happen. You don’t recognize when it’s a theft.”

He told the crowd that day at the end of his speech that it was time to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol with a rambling directive to get involved.

“I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try to give… The Democrats are hopeless – they never vote for anything. Not even a vote. But we’ll try to give it to our Republicans, the weak, because the strong don’t need our help. We will try to give them the kind of pride and courage they need to take our country back.”

“So let’s go down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

During Congressional hearings on the events of January 6, 2021, Ex White House assistant Cassidy Hutchinson told how Trump he was dismissive when told that some of his crowd at the Ellipse were armed.

“I was near a conversation where I heard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t care if they have guns,'” Hutchinson said. “‘I’m not here to hurt you. … Let my men in. They can march on the Capitol from here.’”

She also described Trump’s anger after officials told him he could not accompany supporters to the US Capitol for security reasons.

Instead, Trump returned to the White House. And as the violence at the Capitol unfolded, he sat at a table in a White House dining room, watching the scene unfold on Fox News, according to congressional testimony.

Pat Cipollone, Trump’s top White House lawyer, told congressional investigators that several aides — including the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump — advised the president to say something to stop the violence.