he iconic columns of the White House glowed behind her. In front of her, thousands of supporters held “USA” signs and wore bracelets that lit up red and blue across the grassy acres of the Ellipse. A week before Election Day, decided to make her prime-time closing argument to Americans, not from one of the seven closely contested but from the same spot in Washington, D.
C., where had rallied his supporters on , to try to overturn his 2020 election loss. The place was .
Harris wanted voters to remember Trump’s recalcitrance that day—when he didn’t act to protect Vice President Mike Pence from rioters chanting for his hanging or listen to pleas from fellow Republicans to call off supporters who were attacking law enforcement at the Capitol—and what he’s done in the years since, when he’s continued to deny the election results and promised to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters convicted of assault. In a forceful, 30-minute speech, Harris asked voters to elect her and “turn the page” on Trump.
“We know what Donald Trump has in mind: more chaos, more division, and policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path,” she said. Harris compared Trump to a “petty tyrant” who is “unstable,” “obsessed with revenge,” and wants “unchecked power.
” She said he wants back in the Oval Office, “not to focus on your problems but to focus on his.” Trump has signaled support for military tribunals for political enemies, prom.
