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He spoke from the Ellipse, from the National Mall in the heart of Washington. And <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris, for what she presented as “the great final message of her presidential campaign”, chose the place not by chance: from here, a few steps from the White House, Donald Trump – defeated in the elections – invited the crowd on January 6, 2021, asking his supporters to “fight like hell” against “stolen elections”. “Fight like hell” said the then president, still in office, pushing the most agitated to the point of attacking Congress, in one of the darkest pages in the history of American institutions.
With the White House in the background, Kamala Harris, Democratic candidate, proposed herself as the antithesis of Trump: «It’s time to turn the page, to overcome divisions. It’s time for a new generation of leaders in America. And I am ready”, said the vice president, pledging to “govern for all”, in front of more than 50 thousand people who came to listen to her.
But, a week after the vote, along with the appeal for national unity, Harris also came with a very harsh attack on Trump, once again the Republican candidate, and on his policies which are «today more divisive than yesterday and dangerous for American democracy ».
«Trump is the person who four years ago from this place sent an angry and armed crowd to Parliament to overturn the will of the people who had expressed themselves in free and fair elections, elections that he knew he had lost. Trump is a petty tyrant but the voters will not submit,” Harris said. Even in recent rallies, Trump has instead remembered January 6 as “a day of love”.
«These elections – underlined Harris from the Ellipse, raising her tone – are more than a choice between two parties and two different candidates. They are a choice between having a country rooted in freedom for all Americans or one governed by chaos and division.” In one of the most impactful passages he stated that Trump, if victorious, will enter the White House “with a list of enemies to take revenge on”: “I will enter with a list of things to do,” he said. Again, he defined Trump as “unstable” and “obsessed with retaliation”, “consumed by controversy” and “chasing uncontrolled power”.
