2024-10-29 19:30:00
The Democratic candidate for the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris, will describe her rival Donald Trump as a danger to democracy on Tuesday, during a symbolic speech in the same place where the Republican will address the crowd of followers in 2021. Capitol.
Harris will speak to a crowd of supporters on Washington’s Ellipse, on one side of the National Mall and with the White House in the background, a week before the Nov. 5 election in which she will face the former president.
The Democratic candidate’s advisors are preparing a speech with which they want to highlight a total contrast between the message of hope and optimism that Harris seeks to represent and the dark past that he believes the Trump era (2017-2021) represented.
The chosen location seeks, on the one hand, to give Harris a solemn image by organizing a rally in front of the presidential residence in the early evening.
But he also remembers and condemns the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of 2021 in which a crowd of Trumpists unsuccessfully attempted to stop the ratification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory and block the transition of power.
It was in Ellipse Park that, shortly before the attack, Trump gave a speech to his supporters in which he denounced electoral fraud without evidence and encouraged them to march to the Capitol while Congress certified Biden’s victory, a result that the Republican still does not recognize to this day.
Trump is charged in federal court in the District of Columbia as the alleged instigator of the attack, in which four people died, and the speech he gave that day is one of the pieces of evidence the prosecution is using against him.
In the final stage of the campaign, the Democrats insist on this idea Trump is an authoritarian leaderafter the former Republican chief of staff called him a “fascist” and an admirer of Adolf Hitler.
At this Tuesday’s rally, Harris will also distance herself from the Republican by underlining that she comes from the middle class while Trump is, in her opinion, a tycoon who wants to cut taxes on millionaires at the expense of American workers.
The vice president’s event in the American capital takes place seven days after the vote which, according to polls, could be the closest in the last century.
Harris and Trump are practically tied both in voting intentions nationally and in the seven key states that will define the winner.
It also coincides with the controversy sparked at Trump’s big rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York, where a comedian who attended the event made a racist joke in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating garbage island,” which sparked an avalanche of criticism against Republicans.
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