Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver her “closing argument” to voters a week before Election Day at a symbolic location, The Ellipse, where former President Donald Trump addressed his supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January 6.
The move comes as Harris has pivoted from her “joy” campaign to one with darker themes: warning Americans about the danger posed by a second Trump term.
On Wednesday, Harris stood outside her residence at the Naval Observatory and delivered remarks about revelations made by former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Kelly he said in interviews with The New York Times posted Tuesday that the Republican candidate fits the definition of “fascist” and had said positive things about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Harris has also touted support from anti-Trump Republicans, including former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who were the only two Republican lawmakers to serve on the Jan. 6 House committee.
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) will deliver a “closing argument” to the nation from the Ellipse, the same place where President Donald Trump (right) addressed his supporters on January 6 before the ransacking of the US Capitol.
Earlier in the week, Harris traveled to “blue wall” states alongside Cheney.
He had Kinzinger speak at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, event with other anti-Trump Republicans a week ago.
‘We must put the country first. “We must put country before party,” Kinzinger said at the event.
Much of his argument against Trump centers on the former president’s actions on January 6.
Now he will follow in Trump’s footsteps by addressing his own supporters where the then-Republican president held his ‘Save America’ rally.
As Trump falsely claimed widespread voter fraud, which was costing him a second term, he invited his loyalists 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 that they would “stop the robbery.”
“Today I will lay out just some of the evidence that shows 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 will win the election.”
Pence presided over the joint session of Congress just down the street, where lawmakers were counting the Electoral College votes and cementing President Joe Biden’s victory.
‘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.
He said, “We’re going to cheer on our brave senators, congressmen and women, and we probably won’t cheer as much on some of them.”
‘Because you will never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong,’ he stated. “We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count electors who have been legally appointed, legally appointed.”
“I know that everyone here will soon march to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard,” the then-president added.
After that, the mob stormed the Capitol building, chanting “hang Mike Pence,” injuring numerous police officers and delaying the vote count for several hours.