WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris promised Tuesday to “put country above party and above self” in the closing argument of her presidential campaign, delivering her message from the same site where Donald Trump fomented the Capitol insurrection , to emphasize the sharp choice voters face. One week out from Election Day , the vice president used the address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to pledge to Americans that she would work to improve their lives while arguing that her Republican opponent is only in it for himself. Trump "has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other: That’s who he is,” Harris said.
“But America, I am here tonight to say: That’s not who we are.” She looked to sharpen that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the place where Trump on Jan. 6, 2021 , spewed falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election that inspired a crowd to march to the Capitol and try unsuccessfully to halt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory.
“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. 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 said. Harris did not deliver a treatise on democracy — a staple of President Joe Biden’s own attempts to draw a contrast with Trump .
Instead she aimed to make a broader case for why voters should reject Trump and consider what.