“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy,” Kamala Harris declared in her closing argument near the White House on Tuesday.
With just days remaining until the 2024 U.S. election, the Democratic presidential candidate delivered her address from the Ellipse—the same location where the former president rallied supporters before the Capitol insurrection in 2021.
Harris highlighted the contrast between herself and Trump, stating that while he seeks to jail his critics, she would instead welcome them, giving them “a seat at the table.”
“In less than 90 days, either Donald Trump or I will be in the Oval Office,” Harris said. “On Day One, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list. When elected, I will walk in with a to-do list.”
She pledged to be a president for all Americans, promising to prioritize country over party and self. Harris also underscored Trump’s role in the chaos of Jan. 6, 2021, when he encouraged supporters, fueled by election falsehoods, to march on the Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
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“Look, we know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said. “He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election.” She accused Trump of spending a decade sowing division and fear among Americans.
“This is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better,” she added, calling Trump a “petty tyrant” and “wannabe dictator.”
“But America, I am here tonight to say: That’s not who we are,” Harris concluded. “It doesn’t have to be this way.”
Before Harris delivered her speech, Trump addressed reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday morning, criticizing Harris’s closing message for failing to address the everyday struggles and kitchen-table concerns of Americans.
“She keeps talking about Hitler and Nazis because her record is horrible,” Trump said, referencing Harris’s recent remarks about his former chief of staff’s warning that Trump had spoken admiringly of the Nazi leader while in office.
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, added, “His closing argument to the American people is simple: Kamala broke it; he will fix it.”
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