With only a few days remaining until election day, Vice President Kamala Harris makes her closing argument and final push toward being America’s next President
With only five days remaining until election day, many news pundits are calling the 2024 Presidential Race “too close to call.” But be clear, the choice is simple – the choice should and must be Vice President Kamala Harris.
Here in California (a largely Democratic state) it could be easy to be fooled into not realizing that the Trump Agenda and “Project 2025” don’t stand a chance. But the truth is California is not America and things that feel almost impossible are very real across the nation.
The reality is that this race is going to come down to a few swing states – primarily Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina. So, Harris and Trump organizers are crisscrossing the nation, making their appeal to swing voters.
Californians like Assemblymember Mike Gipson are pulling together Black men for a road trip to Arizona to meet and speak with Arizona Black men about why their support of Vice President Kamala Harris is so important.
“We are taking a group of Black Men to Arizona to help discuss with them and try and convince them that their and our lives will be much better served than under a Trump presidency,” explained Gipson.
On Tuesday, Oct. 29, Vice President Harris delivered her own closing argument against former President Donald Trump while at the same time explaining to the undecided American public why she is the best candidate to be the 47th President of the United States of America.
Vice President Harris delivered these remarks from the Ellipse, the place where Donald Trump, in one of his last acts as president, on January 6, 2021 encouraged a mob to “fight like hell” before they marched to the U.S. Capitol and tried unsuccessfully to halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ victory.
“We know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said. “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, an election that he knew he lost.
“America, 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. And I ask for your vote,” she said.
Harris’ speech, in front of a crowd of well over 75,000 supporters with the White House iconically lit up over her shoulder, was meant to show the distinct contrast between Harris and her opponent as well as spotlight her vision for the future and draw a contrast between her vision of moving forward and Trump’s vision from the past as she seeks to win over undecided voters a week before the election.
Vice President Harris said her Republican rival was “unstable,” “obsessed with revenge,” “consumed with grievance” and “out for unchecked power.” She said Trump would return to the White House “with an enemies list,” while she would “walk in with a to-do list” of work to be done to move America forward.
“Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That’s who he is,” she said. “But America, I am here tonight to say: that’s not who we are.
“We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division. It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” she said.
“I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.”
She vowed to make Americans’ lives better through “common sense solutions” and to “seek common ground.”
“I pledge to listen to experts, to those who will be impacted by the decisions I make and to people who disagree with me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. Trump wants to put those who disagree with him in jail. I’ll give them a seat at my table,” she said.
Previewing the speech, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said the Ellipse was chosen because “it’s a place that certainly we believe helps crystallize the choice in this election.”
“We know a lot of these undecided voters, they’re exhausted,” she said. “They’re certainly frustrated by the state of the partisanship and divided political system that really was defined under Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump made his closing arguments to America at his own rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City oon Sunday, Oct. 27. Harris said that the speeches and racist remarks made at the Trump rally underscored her argument against him.
Over the past week, the Trump campaign has been under heavy criticism for offensive, crude and racist remarks about minorities, Harris, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and other American citizens.
“That’s why people who previously supported and voted for Donald Trump are now supporting me, voting for me,” Harris noted.
“These are people who formerly supported Donald Trump, have voted for him. Trump fans the fuel of hate and division, and that’s why people are exhausted with him.”
More than 75,000 people were on the National Mall for Harris’ speech, according to a campaign official. The Harris Campaign continues to emphasize that they are the “underdogs” in this race and the people all across the nation must VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.
They encourage everyone to reach out to family members in swing states and all across the nation to make sure that everyone in their family and within their households have a plan too and get out to vote.
“This is campaign is totally within the margins of error and the winner is going to be determined within the margins of effort over the next several days” said one campaign official.
“We cannot emphasize how important it is to get out and vote for Kamala Harris to ensure our democracy remains intact.”
