US presidential election 2024: Kamala Harris tells huge Washington rally Trump's division is 'not who we are'

Reminding voters of Trump's relation successful that insurrection successful a bid to overthrow the effect of the past election, she brought up his threats to usage the subject against his governmental rivals and his labelling of those who disagree with him arsenic "the force from within."

"Look, we cognize who Donald Trump is,” she said. 

“He is the idiosyncratic who stood astatine this precise spot astir 4 years agone and sent an equipped mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the volition of the radical successful a escaped and just election," she said. 

Trump, she added, "has spent a decennary trying to support the American radical divided and acrophobic of each other."

"This is not a campaigner for president who is reasoning astir however to marque your beingness better," she said, branding Trump a "petty tyrant" and "wannabe dictator."

Ms Harris continued: "But America, I americium present contiguous to say: That's not who we are." She added, "It doesn't person to beryllium this way."

"I'll beryllium honorable with you: I'm not perfect," she said. "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 truth, adjacent if it's hard to hear.”

Ms Harris went connected to database cardinal argumentation goals, including expanding Medicare sum of location wellness care, boosting the proviso of lodging successful the state and moving to reconstruct nationwide entree to abortion.

The code drew a monolithic assemblage to Washington, with supporters spilling retired toward the Washington Monument connected the National Mall. 

The demo showcased a line-up of mean Americans who spoke astir their priorities, om opposition to the personage appearances astatine earlier rallies.

Among them was Amanda Zurawski, a pistillate who astir died from sepsis aft being denied attraction nether Texas' strict termination ban, and Craig Sicknick, the member of Capitol Police serviceman Brian Sicknick, who died successful the aftermath of the January 6 attack.

Ahead of the speech, Trump utilized a property league astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Florida to impeach Harris of closing with a connection that doesn't code mundane Americans' day-to-day struggles.

He said Ms Harris keeps "talking astir Hitler, and Nazis, due to the fact that her record's horrible," a notation to Harris amplifying the warnings from his erstwhile main of unit that Trump spoke admiringly of the Nazi person portion successful office.

After Republicans accused him of denigrating voters, Mr Biden clarified successful a station connected X: "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's each I meant to say. The comments astatine that rally don't bespeak who we are arsenic a nation."