WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris will promise Tuesday to “put country above party and above self” in the closing argument of her presidential campaign, to be delivered from the same site where Donald Trump fomented the Capitol insurrection , in the hopes that it offers a stark visualization of the choice voters face. One week out from Election Day , the vice president was to use her 7:30 p.m.
ET address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to pledge to Americans that she will 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 will say, according to prepared remarks released by her campaign. “But America, I am here tonight to say: That’s not who we are.
” She hoped 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. With time running out and the race tight, Harris and Trump have both sought big moments to try to shift momentum their way.
“It’s a place that certainly we believe helps crystalize the choice in this election,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said of the setting, calling it “a stark visualization of probably the most infamous ex.