Vice President Kamala Harris will ship the closing message of her presidential marketing campaign on Oct. 29 on the web site the place Donald Trump instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol after dropping the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
A senior Harris marketing campaign official mentioned the selection of the Ellipse, the round park simply south of the White Home, is supposed to distinction Harris’ imaginative and prescient for a primary time period versus Trump’s imaginative and prescient for a second.
The location suggests Harris will make democracy the overarching theme of her closing deal with. Trump hasn’t introduced whether or not he’s giving an identical main deal with to shut out his third marketing campaign for president.
The Ellipse was the place Trump urged supporters to march to the Capitol as Congress was certifying the outcomes of the 2020 election. The violent assault resulted in 5 deaths, together with one in all Trump’s personal supporters.
Harris has returned to the themes of democracy and Trump’s authoritarian tendencies to courtroom disaffected GOP voters. The vice chairman has campaigned not too long ago in swing states with former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who led the Jan. 6 investigation into Trump and who misplaced her congressional seat after breaking with Trump.
Dozens of Trump White Home aides have additionally damaged with Trump and mentioned they received’t vote for him once more due to the menace he poses to the rule of regulation. Harris on Wednesday responded to reporting this week that Trump’s longest-serving chief of employees, John Kelly, believes he meets the definition of a “fascist.” Kelly, in remarks to The New York Occasions and The Atlantic, additionally revealed that Trump privately praised Nazi chief Adolph Hitler as having executed “some good things.”
Harris instructed reporters Wednesday that it’s “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
She added: “We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power.”
