2 weeks Ago By Emel Akan, Jacob Burg
WASHINGTON—A week before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris made her campaign’s closing argument in the heart of the nation’s capital, telling tens of thousands of supporters from around the country, “I offer a different path, and I ask for your vote.” Marking just more than three months since she entered the race after President Joe Biden dropped out, Harris sought to rally her supporters around key topics of her campaign, including abortion, housing, and tax incentives for caregivers. “One week from today, you will have the chance to make a decision that directly impacts your life, the life of your family, and the future of this country we love,” she said.
“And it will probably be the most important vote you ever cast.” Harris’s speech was delivered two days after former President Donald Trump made his closing remarks in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden. In his speech, Trump focused on encouraging Americans to “dream big” again and a promise of fixing the economic, immigration, foreign policy, and other challenges the country faces.
Capitalizing on the significance of the location, Harris sought to position herself as the more stable candidate. “It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division,” she said. She criticized Trump’s actions on Jan.
6, saying, “That’s who Donald Trump is, and that’s who is asking you to give him another four years in the Oval Office.” “I have been honored to serve as Joe Biden’s vice president, but I will bring my own experiences and ideas to the Oval Office,” Harris said. “My presidency will be different because the challenges we face are different.
Our top priority as a nation four years ago was to end the pandemic and rescue the economy. Now our biggest challenge is to lower costs, costs that were rising even before the pandemic, and that are still too high. I get it.
” Harris has campaigned on a platform of a “new way forward” and presented herself as the candidate who can help the nation “turn the page.” “Let me tell you, I am someone who has spent most of my career outside of Washington, D.C.
So I know that not all the good ideas come from here,” she said. “I am not afraid of tough fights against bad actors and powerful interests,” the vice president added. “You will pay even more if Donald Trump finally gets his way and repeals the Affordable Care Act, which would throw millions of Americans off their health insurance and take us back to when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions,” Harris said.
“Well, we are not going back.” “I will work every day to build consensus and reach compromise, to get things done, and if you give me the chance to fight on your behalf, there is nothing in the world that will stand in my way,” Harris said. She also rebuked Trump’s rhetoric about the “enemy from within.
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