United States: In modern history, Thursday night capped one of the most extraordinary months masked by VP Kamala Harris’s speech rallying Democrats around themes of patriotism, as well as casting Former President Donald Trump as the enemy of classic American principles.
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She said, “In the enduring struggle between democracy and tyranny, I know where I stand. And I know where the United States belongs,” as CNN reported.
Moreover, while directly hitting her Republican rival, she laid out the former president’s legal troubles, blaming him for the horrors that some women had to face during the implementation of strict state-level abortion laws.
She mentioned what she called the “chaos and calamity when he was in office.”
She said, “In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man,” and “But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
Harris delved deeper into her policy positions
She talked about her own policy positions, particularly foreign policy ones, and mentioned that she’d be a president who is “realistic, practical and has common sense” – a clear rebuttal to Trump’s effort to brand her as too liberal.
The contrast between Harris’ speech in Chicago and Trump’s last month at the Republican convention in Milwaukee could not have been stark, as it involved head-to-head confrontations in debates yet to come.
Harris called for pre-Trump normalcy
Harris mentioned in her speech a message to Americans that they don’t have to live like this anymore.
Several times, she even offered voters a clean break from the trump era, which was marked by uncertainty and political turmoil, as CNN reported.
She, as well as others present at the event, repeatedly mentioned, “We are not going back,” along with the promise putting forward of a progressive change, which also resonated as an assurance for the immediate term.
Harris’s campaign has also mentioned on several occasions about “freedom,” demanding to reframe issues such as reproductive rights as a question of government interference.
Harris said to the audience that at stake in the election were “the freedom to live safe from gun violence, in our schools, communities, and places of worship; the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride; the freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis; and the freedom that unlocks all the others: The freedom to vote.”