Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver her ‘closing argument’ to voters one week before Election Day at a symbolic spot – The Ellipse – where former President Donald Trump addressed supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January 6.
This move comes as Harris has pivoted from her ‘joy’-filled campaign, to one with darker themes – warning Americans about the danger a second Trump term poses.
On Wednesday, Harris stood in front of her Naval Observatory residence and delivered remarks on revelations made by Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Kelly said in interviews with The New York Times published Tuesday that the GOP nominee fits the definition of a ‘fascist’ and had said positive things about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Harris has also touted the support of anti-Trump Republicans, including former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who were the only two GOP lawmakers to serve on the House January 6 committee.
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) will deliver a ‘closing argument’ to the nation from the Ellipse – the same location where President Donald Trump (right) addressed his supporters on January 6 before the ransacked the U.S. Capitol Building
At the start of the week, Harris traveled to ‘blue wall’ states alongside Cheney.
She had Kinzinger speak at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania event with other anti-Trump Republicans a week ago.
‘We must put country first. We must put country over party,’ Kinzinger said at the event.
Much of their argument against Trump centers around the ex-president’s actions on January 6.
Now she’ll follow Trump’s footsteps by addressing her own supporters where the then-Republican president held his ‘Save America’ rally.
As Trump falsely claimed that there was widespread election fraud, which was costing him a second term, he invited his faithful to the Ellipse – the park just south of the White House where the National Christmas Tree stands during the holiday season.
There, he told the crowd they would ‘stop the steal.’
‘Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide,’ Trump falsely claimed at the time. ‘This was not a close election.’
It’s where Trump famously said, ‘if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.’
Pence was chairing the joint session of Congress just down the road, where lawmakers were counting Electoral College votes and cementing President Joe Biden’s win.
‘Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down,’ Trump said at the time.
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He said ‘we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.’
‘Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong,’ he said. ‘We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.’
‘I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,’ the then-president added.
Following that, the mob broke into the Capitol Building, chanted ‘hang Mike Pence,’ injured droves of police officers and delayed the vote count for several hours.