Vice President Kamala Harris tried once and for all to convince undecided voters to vote for her in a final, impassioned speech during which she put forward a leadership style different from her Republican opponent, who is seeking “of limitless power”.
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Donald Trump is “someone unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed by reproaches and in search of limitless power,” said Kamala Harris last night in front of a vibrant crowd of 75,000 people who greeted by shouting his name.
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In her final speech, the vice-president did not hesitate to launch a stream of insults at her 78-year-old Republican opponent. “It’s time to turn the page,” she demanded.
A week before Election Day, the Democratic vice president also thumbed her nose at the former president by holding her closing event on the Ellipse plaza. Behind her was a row of American flags and a sign reading the word “Freedom.”
Symbolic place
It is on this same site, in Washington, that former President Donald Trump gave a fiery speech on January 6, 2021 to contest the results of the election lost to Joe Biden, just before the violent attack on the Capitol, symbol of American democracy.
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“We know who Donald Trump is. “This is the person who stood in this very spot almost four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a fair election.” Kamala Harris to the cheers of the crowd.
She pointed out that Trump knew he lost in 2020, but still watched the violence of the insurrection on television.
“On day one, if elected, Donald Trump will walk into this office with a list of enemies. When I am elected, I will enter this office with a list of priorities to do,” Kamala Harris promised.
“Donald Trump spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of others. That’s what it is. But I’m here tonight to say that’s not who we are,” she also said.
The crowd was particularly loud when Kamala Harris addressed the abortion situation in the United States. “I will fight to restore what Donald Trump and his hand-picked Supreme Court justices took away from the women of America,” she said.
An important vote
The Democratic vice-president believes that next Tuesday’s vote will probably be the most important in the lives of Americans, who will have to choose between a country “anchored in freedom or a country governed by chaos and division.”
For his part, the former president went to a rally yesterday in Pennsylvania, a coveted key state, where he asked his supporters: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The crowd gathered in Allentown responded with a resounding “no.”
– With AFP