- VP Kamala Harris plans to rally in Washington on the Ellipse.
- It will call on Americans to “turn the page” with Trump.
- Trump said Harris would be too dangerous to serve as president.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely said Democrats staged a “coup” to force President Joe Biden to abandon his re-election bid, while his Democratic rival Kamala Harris planned a rally in Washington to remind voters of the violent attack on the US Capitol. By Trump supporters.
At an event at his Florida ranch one week before the Nov. 5 election, Trump said Harris would be too dangerous to serve as president, citing the foreign wars and high levels of immigration that occurred during her time as vice president.
His accusation that Democrats unfairly forced Biden to withdraw from the race brought to mind Trump’s false claims that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud.
“They stole the presidency of the United States. You can call it a coup, you can call it anything. But they stole it,” he told his supporters. “The way they took that from him wasn’t right.”
Biden, 81, abandoned his re-election bid in July after weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats who worried he was too old to run for re-election with Trump, 78.
Harris is scheduled to hold a rally later in the day at the Ellipse, a park near the White House, where Trump on January 6, 2021, urged his supporters to “fight like hell” and head to the US Capitol, where lawmakers were confirming his loss.
Four people died in the ensuing riot, and a police officer defending the Capitol died the next day. Trump said that if re-elected, he would pardon more than 1,500 participants accused of crimes.
At Harris’ event, which is expected to attract at least 20,000 people, she will call on Americans to “turn the page” with Trump while emphasizing her plans to cut costs and make the economy work for middle-class Americans, campaign chair Jane O. Mali Dillon told reporters.
Harris’ lead over Trump has narrowed in the final weeks of the campaign to 1 percentage point, and she now leads 44% to 43% among registered voters, according to a new report. Reuters/Ipsos The poll was released on Tuesday. Harris led Trump in every way Reuters/Ipsos Since she entered the race in July, but her lead has been steadily shrinking since late September.
Throughout her campaign, Harris attempted to portray Trump as a threat to democracy and violating the rights of Americans, including women’s reproductive rights.
For his part, Trump has sought to tie Harris to Biden’s handling of the economy, an important issue for voters, and one on which voters have consistently given him an advantage.
Rising prices for food, utilities and housing have angered voters, even though the US economy has outperformed the rest of the developed world since the Covid-19 crisis.
Trump has also made his opposition to illegal immigration a major theme of his bid. At his event Tuesday, which started more than an hour late, he played a video highlighting a 12-year-old girl who was killed in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan men in the United States illegally. “In less than four years, Kamala Harris has obliterated our boundaries,” he said.
Trump is scheduled to visit later today a city inhabited by a Hispanic majority in Pennsylvania, two days after his protest in New York, which sparked anger due to obscene and racist statements from his ally.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who opened for Trump, described the US Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating garbage island” and disparaged black Americans, Jews and Latinos.