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On Tuesday, Kamala Harris stated that America is “absolutely” prepared to elect its first woman president, pointing to a critical moment in the nation’s history.
However, she downplayed the significance of her own historic candidacy, instead expressing a desire to move forward for a country she described as “exhausted” by the Trump administration’s policies and controversies.
Harris’s remarks reflect a broader sentiment among voters seeking a fresh start.In the lead-up to Election Day, just two weeks away, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ramping up their campaigns in essential swing states, filling their schedules with rallies and utilizing various media platforms to reach potential voters.
With polls showing a neck-and-neck race, both candidates are diligently pursuing strategies to gain any edge that could tilt the election in their favor.
In an interview with the national NBC network, Kamala Harris confidently affirmed that America is “absolutely” prepared to elect its first woman president. However, she emphasized that her candidacy goes beyond historic milestones, focusing instead on “turning the page” for a nation seeking a fresh start after years of tumultuous leadership.
“People are exhausted with Donald Trump and his approach, because it’s all about himself,” she said.
While addressing a crowd of supporters in North Carolina, Trump conveyed a starkly contrasting message, focusing on themes of resilience and defiance against what he termed the failures of the current administration. His rhetoric aimed to galvanize his base by highlighting perceived threats to their values and freedoms.
“This election is a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence, failure and disaster, or whether we’ll begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,” he said to cheers.
Trump’s rally featured repeated jabs at Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, whom he referred to as “stupid” on multiple occasions. This kind of rhetoric was designed to resonate with his audience, reinforcing a sense of superiority and rallying them around his campaign’s message.
The race is overshadowed by extraordinary tensions and fears of violence or a refusal by Trump to recognize the results if he loses, as he continues to do over his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.
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Harris told NBC that her campaign was “of course” ready for a scenario where Trump prematurely claims victory during a vote-counting process that could take days to complete.
Biden, who has been an infrequent presence in Harris’s campaign, took a shot at Trump Tuesday by re-wording the ex-president’s notorious anti-Hillary Clinton chant of “Lock her up”.
On a visit to New Hampshire, Biden told a During a stop in New Hampshire, President Biden spoke to a small group, asserting that “we got to lock” Trump up, quickly clarifying with “politically lock him up,” to stress his stance on the importance of political accountability in the current climate.
With Trump battling numerous criminal charges as he runs against Harris for the next presidential term, the White House has maintained a careful silence, deliberately avoiding any involvement in discussions about the Republican’s legal predicaments.
In a statement, the Trump campaign claimed that Biden and Harris had a calculated approach from the beginning, intending to “politically persecute their opponent,” thus framing the legal challenges as a politically charged maneuver.
