Kamala Harris mentions Trump 24 times in fired-up 'closing' plea to voters to put her in the White House

Kamala Harris delivered her closing statement to Americans connected Thursday night, lasting earlier the White House to inquire them to ballot for her alternatively of rival Donald Trump, whom she referred to arsenic a 'petty tyrant.'

'This is idiosyncratic who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and retired for unchecked power,' she said of Trump. 

She spoke connected the Ellipse, a conception of the National Mall that features the White House arsenic its backdrop.

Her code was a plea to scope the tiny fig of undecided voters inactive retired determination and those voters who are connected the obstruction astir voting connected November 5th. Polls amusement the statesmanlike contention is fundamentally tied with 7 days to go.

Trump was the main absorption of her remarks. She mentioned him 24 times. And she attacked the erstwhile president from the start, criticizing him for his effect to the insurrection connected January 6th.

She spoke from the aforesaid spot helium spoke connected January 6th, 2021, erstwhile helium encouraged his supporters to march connected the Capitol to overturn the election results. The striking opposition successful images is what Harris' run was going for, saying they picked they determination deliberately.

'Donald Trump sat successful the White House, watching arsenic the unit unfolded connected television,' Harris said.

'He was told by his unit that the mob wanted to termination his ain vice president and Donald Trump responded with 2 words: truthful what?'

'And that's who is asking you to springiness him different 4 years successful the Oval Office,' she added.

The nighttime was the grand, sweeping lawsuit her run wanted. There were astir 75,000 radical cheering Harris connected – with a fewer Gaza protesters connected the sidelines – and each the cablegram networks carried her remarks.

In summation to attacking her rival, Harris besides tackled the country wherever she is astir politically vulnerable: borderline security. Trump and Republicans person attacked her repeatedly connected the migration issue.

In her remarks, she pledged to region amerciable migrants who came to the state unlawfully if she becomes president.

'When I americium president, we volition rapidly region those who get present unlawfully, prosecute the cartels and springiness borderline patrol the enactment that they truthful desperately need,' Harris said.

She repeated her pledge to walk a borderline information measure that was killed successful Congress earlier this twelvemonth aft Trump encouraged Republicans to bash so.

'I volition enactment with Democrats and Republicans to enactment connected the borderline information measure for Donald Trump killed,' she said.

She besides noted: 'At the aforesaid time, we indispensable admit we are a federation of immigrants. And I volition enactment with legislature to walk migration reform, including an earned way to citizenship for hardworking immigrants similar farmworkers.'

Her run said Tuesday night's code would beryllium Harris' 'closing argument' to voters.

Noting her inheritance arsenic a prosecutor, the run pointed retired she has laid retired the grounds and the facts and was not acceptable to marque her last pitch.

The cardinal statement of that transportation is that she is not Donald Trump.

'I connection a antithetic path. And I inquire for your vote,' Harris said.

'I americium not looking to people governmental points. I americium looking to marque progress. I pledge to perceive to experts, to those who volition beryllium impacted by the decisions I make. And 2 radical who disagree with maine - dissimilar Donald Trump - I don't judge radical who disagree with maine are the enemy. He wants to enactment them successful jailhouse I'll springiness them a spot astatine the table,' she noted.

Harris called connected the state to cull 'the schemes of wannabe dictators' and to 'start penning the adjacent section successful the astir bonzer communicative ever told.' 

'I pledge to beryllium a president for each Americans,' she vowed.

Her remarks were besides immoderate of her astir personal.

'I'm not perfect. I marque mistakes but here's what I committedness you: I volition ever perceive to you adjacent if you don't ballot for me. I volition ever archer you the information - adjacent if it is hard to hear,' she said.

'Donald Trump would locomotion into that bureau with an enemies database erstwhile elected, I volition locomotion successful with a to-do database to get done for the American radical and I volition enactment with everyone Democrats, Republicans, and independents to assistance Americans who are moving hard and inactive struggling to get ahead,' she said.

And she referenced her puerility arsenic the girl of immigrants, specifically referring to her precocious mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who migrated from India with the extremity of curing bosom cancer. Her parent died of colon crab successful 2009.

'I've lived the committedness of America. I saw however hard our parent worked to springiness her daughters the aforesaid chances this state gave her. Growing up, I was blessed to person household by humor and household by emotion who instilled successful maine the values of community, compassion, and faith. They person ever defined our federation astatine its best,' Harris said.

Security was choky astatine the outdoor event.

Metal fencing surrounded the full country southbound of the White House arsenic agelong lines formed to spell done the magnetometers.

Thick slug impervious solid stood successful beforehand and to the sides of wherever Harris would talk .

Helicopters buzzed overhead arsenic it got person to the vice president's arrival. Security was seen connected the extortion of adjacent buildings.

Outbursts from pro-Palestinian protesters peppered her remarks.

One demonstrator held a hand-written 'Stop Arming Israel' sign. Just beyond the metallic information gates, Palestinian flags could beryllium seen - and a ample Trump sign.