Harris speech at Ellipse to offer "a different path" than Trump

Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris connected Tuesday nighttime will present her closing statement against erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine nan aforesaid tract he encouraged his supporters to "fight for illustration hell" connected Jan. 6, 2021, earlier they marched to nan U.S. Capitol and tried unsuccessfully to halt nan certification of President Biden's victory. 

Harris' speech, successful beforehand of what's expected to beryllium a monolithic crowd astatine nan Ellipse adjacent nan White House, is meant to tie a opposition betwixt her imagination for nan state and Trump's arsenic she seeks to triumph complete undecided voters a week earlier Election Day. 

"Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to support nan American group divided and acrophobic of each other. That's who he is," she is expected to say, according to excerpts of her speech. "But America, I americium present coming to say: that's not who we are." 

She is expected to telephone her Republican rival "unstable" and represent him arsenic "obsessed pinch revenge," "consumed pinch grievance" and "out for unchecked power." 

"America, we cognize what Donald Trump has successful mind. More chaos. More division. And policies that thief those astatine nan very apical and wounded everyone else. I connection a different path. And I inquire for your vote," she will say. 

She will besides promise to make Americans' lives amended done "common consciousness solutions" and "seek communal ground." 

"I promise to perceive to experts, to those who will beryllium impacted by nan decisions I make and to group who disagree pinch me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don't judge group who disagree pinch maine are the enemy. He wants to put them successful jail. I'll springiness them a spot astatine my table," she will say. 

Previewing nan speech, Harris run chair Jen O'Malley Dillon said nan Ellipse was chosen because "it's a spot that surely we judge helps crystallize nan prime successful this election." 

Supporters of Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris activity American flags arsenic they be a run rally successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 29, 2024. Jose Luis Magana / AP

"We cognize a batch of these undecided voters, they're exhausted," she said. "They're surely disappointment by nan authorities of nan partisanship and divided governmental strategy that really was defined nether Donald Trump."

On Monday, Harris told reporters that Trump's rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City a time earlier underscored her statement against him. Speakers astatine Trump's arena made offensive, crude and racist remarks astir minorities and Harris. 

"That's why people who formerly supported Donald Trump, person voted for him, are supporting me, voting for me," she said. "He fans nan substance of dislike and division, and that's why group are exhausted pinch him." 

While getting crystal pick successful Baltimore, Maryland, connected Tuesday, Mr. Biden told reporters he would beryllium watching Harris' speech. Explaining why he would not beryllium location successful person, he said, "because it's for her, it's her night." 

Aaron Navarro and Paulina Smolinski contributed to this report.

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