US election: Kamala Harris urges voters to beware of Trump’s desire for unchecked power
On Tuesday, Trump spoke in Allentown, Pennsylvania, home to big Puerto Rican community, following controversial comments made on Sunday
“This election is more than just a choice between two parties and two different candidates. It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division,” Harris said.
Harris delivered her roughly 30-minute remarks at the Ellipse, a park south of the White House, the same location that former president Trump spoke from on January 6, 2021, before throngs of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building. It is an event that she reminded voters of Tuesday evening.
The American vice-president’s choice to hold a major campaign event in Washington was unexpected, as the city is a bastion of Democratic voters.
In what her campaign called her “closing argument” to voters, Harris said she had a to-do list of policy objectives while Trump as president would focus on an “enemies list” of people he planned to prosecute.
“This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power,” she said of the former president. She added that his susceptibility to “flattery or favour” made him a favourite among “autocrats” like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
Trump has not yet committed to accepting the results of the election, asserting that he would only accept them if they were “fair and legal”.
