ANALYSIS — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night stood a few hundred yards from the Oval Office and urged voters to block Donald Trump from returning to power there. The Democratic presidential nominee addressed tens of thousands of supporters on the Ellipse, a park with the White House’s south front lit up behind her, one week until Election Day. It was the same spot where then-President Donald Trump on Jan.
6, 2021, whipped a throng of his loyalists — some he knew were armed, according to a special House committee — into a frenzy before they stormed the Capitol. “Donald 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.
” While it was the same venue, Harris delivered a much different message from that infamous day nearly four years ago, when a clinging-to-power Trump told his backers “we fight like hell” or “you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have tried striking a messaging balance since late-July between focusing enough on their economic agenda and warning voters that a second Trump term would feature too few “guardrails” and, potentially, too many enablers and mechanisms for Trump to abuse his power — and even upend American democracy.
“It is time to stop pointing fingers,” she said. “And time to start locking arms.” To be s.
