In an attempt to create a memorable political split screen seven days before the polls close, Harris addressed a sizeable crowd at the Ellipse in the background White house. Harris, describing Trump as “unstable”, “obsessed with revenge”, “consumed with grievance” and “for unchecked power”, asked voters for their support over the sound of sirens and protesters in and out of the park .

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“Nearly 250 years ago, America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant,” Harris told the crowd Tuesday. “Through generations, Americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in doing so demonstrated to the world that a government of, by, and for the people is strong and can endure.”

“They didn’t fight and they didn’t sacrifice and they didn’t give their lives, just to see us give up our fundamental freedoms, just to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant,” she said.

Harris said Trump’s priorities for a second administration include prosecuting people on his “enemies list” and “freeing the violent extremists who attacked those law enforcement officers on Jan. 6,” using “military against American citizens who simply do not agree with him’ or, in his own words, ‘the enemy within’.

“Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. This is who he is,” she said. “America, I’m here tonight to say: We are not who we are.”

The Harris campaign selected the Ellipse to emphasize the choice presented to voters regarding the next occupant of Oval Office where Trump spoke to his supporters before some of them marched to Capitol to stop certification Electoral College results on January 62021.

It also provided an opportunity for the vice president to have a viral moment and challenge Trump on crowd numbers. The campaign said 75,000 people were at the Ellipse and near the National Mall on Tuesday, compared to the 53,000 people who were there for Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally four years ago.

Neither the National Park Service nor the Metropolitan Police Department conduct official crowd counts.

Acknowledging he was still pitching to many voters, Harris told the crowd he would “look for common-sense, common-sense solutions to improve your lives” with the hope of making “progress” rather than scoring “political points”. .

“I’m committed to listening to the experts,” the vice president said. “To those who will be affected by the decisions I make. And to those who don’t agree with me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t think people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I will give them a place at my table.”

“I am committed to being a president for all Americans,” she continued. “Always put country above party and above self.”

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The Harris campaign anticipated the Ellipse vice president’s speech as an appeal to undecided voters, many of whom are described as less-informed voters who need to be persuaded to mobilize, including the suburbs. woman, independentand centrist republicans.

The vice president did just that on Tuesday, discussing her proposals for middle classsuch as her plan for the economy, health care, immigration and foreign policy, criticizing Trump for his abortion and fiscal positions and encouraging voters to turn the page on a new generation of leadership.

People in the crowd, from the Washington, D.C. area to Florida, waved flags and “freedom” signs, some wearing Harris-Walz camo baseball caps and others wearing cat p**** caps from protests against Trump’s win in 2016. One volunteer had a comma and “La” painted on his cheek, a reminder of how to pronounce the vice president’s name.

Carol T., 57, a registered nurse in Maryland, was not “nervous” about next week’s election but acknowledged it would be a “step backwards” if Harris, potentially the first female minority would win.

“They did that in 2016 with Hillary Clinton,” she said Washington Examiner. “Come on. what’s going on Women are more qualified than men who have won since they run. So what is it? It is no longer a man’s world. It’s 2024.”

Melissa Schutte, 56, a government consultant in Washington, DC, was “energized” and “very, very hopeful” despite conversations she had with people who were thinking of “sitting out for that they are disappointed’ over issues including the war in Gaza.

“I’m frustrated that people say they don’t understand her politics. She has politics. Go to her website. Listen to her campaign speeches,” Schutte said Washington Examiner. “At the end of the day, what kind of country do you want to live in? If you don’t vote and he wins, you have yourself to blame for the backwardness our country could be headed for.”

Trump counterscheduled the Harris Ellipse speech with a press conference at it Mar-a-Lago private resort in palm beach, FloridaTuesday morning and his own rally in Allentown, Pennsylvaniatuesday evening

During his press conference, Trump announced that his administration would seize assets from criminal gangs and drug cartels for a compensation fund for victims illegal immigrant crime. His rally in majority-minority Allentown comes after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe joked during his Madison Square Garden event in New York City sunday ca Puerto Rico it is a “floating garbage island”.

Puerto Rico’s shadow senator, Zoraida Buxo, supported him during Tuesday’s rally. Demographics are important in Pennsylvania because there are about 472,000 Puerto Ricans in the community where President Joe Biden won in 2020 with 81,000 votes.

“I’m proposing a plan to save America,” Trump said Tuesday in Florida. “He’s going to save him from the incredible destruction that Crooked Joe Biden and Kamala have caused. She is running a campaign of demoralisation, destruction and hatred.”

Three months into Harris’ short, historic campaign, the vice president has been repeatedly asked how she would differ from Biden if elected president next week. Biden was behind her during her speech, not on stage but at the White House, after spending the day promoting his Invest in America agenda in Baltimore.

Biden will be in Philadelphia on Friday for a battleground state event underscoring his support for unions, which has been uncoordinated with the Harris campaign, as reports circulate of a deteriorating relationship between the White House and what was once the president’s campaign.

On Tuesday, Harris said she was honored to serve as Biden’s vice president, but would bring her own experiences and ideas to her administration.

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“My presidency will be different because the challenges we face are different,” she said. “Our top priority as a nation four years ago was to end the pandemic and save the economy. Now, our biggest challenge is to reduce costs, costs that were rising even before the pandemic and are still too high. I understand.”

After her Ellipse speech, Harris is expected to campaign North CarolinaPennsylvania and Wisconsin Wednesday, and Arizona and Nevada on Thursday, with more than 50 million people already voting ahead of the Nov. 5 election, a growing number of whom are Republicans who have tended not to vote in the past.