- Harris wants to turn the page for a nation “exhausted” by Trump.
- Harris and Trump are saturating swing states with rallies.
- Career overshadowed by extraordinary tensions and fears of violence.
Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the United States is “absolutely” ready to elect its first female president, but downplayed her historic candidacy, saying she simply wants to turn the page for a nation “exhausted” by Donald Trump.
With two weeks until Election Day, Harris and Trump are saturating swing states with rallies and taking to the airwaves and podcasts in search of an advantage in a race that polls show is effectively tied.
Speaking nationally NBC Online, Harris responded “absolutely” when asked if the United States was ready to elect its first woman, but also noted that her candidacy was about “turning the page.”
“People are tired of Donald Trump and his approach, because it's all about himself,” he said.
Trump, speaking to supporters in North Carolina, delivered a very different message.
“This election is a choice between having four more years of incompetence, failure and disaster, or whether we will begin the greatest four years in the history of our country,” he said to applause.
The race is overshadowed by extraordinary tensions and fears of violence or a refusal by Trump to acknowledge the results if he loses, as he continues to do after his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.
Harris said NBC that his campaign was “of course” prepared for a scenario in which Trump prematurely claims victory during a vote-counting process that could take days to complete.
Biden, who has been a rare presence on Harris' campaign, attacked Trump on Tuesday by rephrasing the former president's notorious anti-Hillary Clinton chant of “lock her up.”
On a visit to New Hampshire, Biden told a small crowd that “we have to lock up” Trump, quickly adding: “lock him up politically.”
With Trump facing multiple pending criminal charges as he competes against Harris to succeed Biden, the White House has been careful not to weigh in on the Republican's legal troubles.
