Of Michael GryboskiMainline Church Editor Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged to “reach a compromise” with political opponents if elected president, while labeling her Republican challenger, former President Donald Trump, a “petty tyrant.”

A week before election day, Harris he gave a speech at the Ellipse near the National Mall in Washington, DC, the same location Trump held a rally on January 6, 2021, at the same time that a crowd of supporters and others stormed the US Capitol to try to stop the certification of the presidential election from 2020.

During his remarks, Harris promised to work with both major parties on policy issues, saying he would “build consensus” and “compromise” to “get things done.”

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“I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me,” she said. “I will work with everyone. Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Americans still struggling to get ahead.”

Harris denounced Trump as “unstable” and “obsessed with revenge”, claiming the former president would use the US military against his political enemies if re-elected.

The claim referred to a recent Fox News interview in which Trump spoke of the “enemy within” and suggested using the US military to deal with it.

“We have some very bad people. We have some sick, crazy people from the radical left,” Trump said. “I think they’re the biggest — and it should be very easy to handle, if necessary, by the (National Guard) or, if really necessary, by the military, because I can’t let that happen .”

For his part, the Republican president of the US House, Mike Johnson defended Trump’s remarksnoting that the GOP presidential candidate was referring to “marauding gangs of dangerous and violent people who destroy public property” rather than nonviolent political opponents.

During his speech, Harris also called Trump “a petty tyrant” who wants “unchecked power,” claiming that Trump “has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other.”

“As Americans, we rise and fall together,” she added. “For too long, we have been consumed by too much division, chaos and mutual distrust. And it can be easy, then, to forget a simple truth: it doesn’t have to be this way.”

Harris also focused on other issues, promising to support a child tax credit, make child care more affordable, build millions of new homes, advance immigration reform and sign a bill legalizing abortion nationwide.

According to a report released last month by the Freedom Forum, nearly half of Americans surveyed believed Trump was a “threat” to the First Amendment, while 37 percent said the same about Harris.