On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, the Vice-President warned of a potential Trump win and framed the race to the White House as an opportunity to ‘move past the bitterness’
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. on Thursday., presenting herself as an alternative who would lead the country to new wealth and strength as she accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president.
Ms. Harris, a 59-year-old former prosecutor sketched her roots as the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother, and invited Americans of all political stripes to consider her candidacy against Donald Trump, a 78-year-old convicted felon who has built his political brand on nativism, in a neck-and-neck race for the White House.
“She should leave the Speech right now, go to Washington, D.C., close the Border, allow fracking in Pennsylvania and other places, and start doing the things she’s complaining about aren’t done!” Mr. Trump wrote.at the top of the ticket last month, Ms. Harris has recaptured the party’s poll lead, breathing new life into a once-flagging campaign. Now, she must show that this energy is sustainable enough to generate the voter turnout that will decide the election.
Earlier Thursday, the party brought to its stage members of the “Central Park Five,” Black men wrongfully imprisoned in 1989 for rape. Mr. Trump at the time paid for full-page newspaper advertisements calling for their execution. She promised a strong stand alongside Ukraine, vowing never to get close to dictators such as North Korea’s Kim Jong-un “who are rooting for Trump because they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favours. They know that he won’t hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself.”
But she left undefined what that might mean, providing little rebuttal to critics – in and outside of her party – who have faulted her for offering too few new ideas. The Trump campaign this week unveiled an entire spoofed “policy” website devoted to criticizing her approach, blaming her and Mr. Biden for painful inflation, declining savings rates and spending so profligate it hurt the economy.Polling suggests U.S. voters feel confident they understand the way Mr. Trump would govern.
It also provided Ms. Harris a much-watched moment to delineate differences between her life in public service and Mr. Trump’s decades spent accumulating wealth and television ratings.
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