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CBS News: Harris gives closing argument speech at the Ellipse, offering "a different path" than Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-speech-ellipse-donald-trump-2024-election/
Comment: "Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night delivered her closing argument against former President Donald Trump at the same site he encouraged his supporters to "fight like hell" on Jan. 6, 2021, before they marched to the U.S. Capitol and tried unsuccessfully to halt the certification of President Biden's victory."
"She called her Republican rival 'unstable,' 'obsessed with revenge,' 'consumed with grievance' and 'out for unchecked power.' She said Trump would return to the White House 'with an enemies list,' while she would 'walk in with a to-do list.' "
" 'We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division. It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,' she said. 'I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.' "
"Harris also pledged to make Americans' lives better through 'common sense solutions' and 'seek common ground.' "
" 'I pledge to listen to experts, to those who will be impacted by the decisions I make and to people who disagree with me. Unlike Donald Trump, I don't believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I'll give them a seat at my table,' she said."
Opinion: I’m Voting Harris Not Because She Deserves it But Because I Do
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-m-voting-harris-not-203843421.html
Comment: "Now do I agree with Harris’ policies on everything? Absolutely not. Guns scare the hell out of me and so does fracking." "If I thought voting for a third party would end what’s going on in Gaza and now much of the Middle East, I’d do it in a minute. If I thought sitting out this election would stop the slaughter of innocent people, I would sit it out."
"It’s not that the issues on which I disagree with Harris don’t matter. It’s that electing Donald Trump isn’t going to solve them. In fact, like with literally everything I can think of, he will make them worse."
"Huge swaths of our country seem to have gone through some kind of collective amnesia. It happens when you go through something terrifying."
"Just a few visceral memories of the Trump years:
He appointed the justices that ended Roe v. Wade, and he said that women should be punished for having abortions.
He called the people who died in battle fighting for our country 'suckers and losers.'
He gave Vladimir Putin, a dictator who has repeatedly threatened to nuke us, COVID testing equipment before it was widely available to our own citizens.
He billed taxpayers millions and millions of dollars by making government employees stay at his own properties.
He committed a minimum of 34 felonies while he was president. What is this world where 'he’s a felon' is genuinely this far down the list?
He separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents with no plan to get them back together. He put babies in cages.
He f---ing tried to buy Greenland.
He lied about winning the election, sent a mob to the Capitol, and created a plan to send fake electors to overturn the will of the voters. It’s weird how you hear something enough times that it starts to sound normal, but this remains complete and utter madness. It’s how countries get overthrown and turned into dictatorships. He called up election officials and told them to CHANGE VOTES."
"The fact that he failed doesn’t make it less horrifying that he tried."
"There are so many ways that I wish the system was different. But I’m not voting for the system. I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I’m voting for me and the people I care about. And, if I’m being perfectly honest, because it’s my best shot at never having to hear about Donald Trump again."
Barack Obama in Pittsburgh: FULL SPEECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJptBIsiq8U
Comment: Watch Barrack Obama make the case for Kamala Harris and make the case against Donald Trump. This is the most informative 45 minutes you'll spend watching a video today.
Harris campaign unveils ad featuring ex-aides warning about ‘danger’ of Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-campaign-unveils-ad-featuring-210301751.html
Comment: "Vice President Harris’s campaign on Monday unveiled a new ad that features former aides from President Trump’s administration, warning that another term with him in the White House would be dangerous."
"The 30-second ad entitled “Enemy Withen” features Olivia Troye, ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, and Kevin Carroll, a former Trump Homeland Security official, who are both outspoken Trump critics backing Harris."
" 'The second term would be worse,' Carroll said in the ad. 'There will be no one to stop his worst instincts. Unchecked power. No guardrails. If we elect Trump again, we are in terrible danger.' "
"Additionally, the campaign official said, Harris plans to show Pennsylvanians what Trump’s rallies are really like, after she called on Americans to watch the former president and argued that he has declined mentally and is unfit for office."
Axios: Over 700 national security officials endorse Harris for president
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/22/national-security-officials-endorse-harris
Comment: "Over 700 national security and military officials endorsed Kamala Harris for president Sunday in a letter that said the vice president 'defends America's democratic ideals' while former President Trump 'endangers' them."
Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin: ‘Elections do matter for your health’
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/21/doctors-harris-support-public-health-00179165
Comment: "Doctors are giving nearly twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this cycle, teaming with Kamala Harris’ campaign and broadcasting the hazards they see in a second Trump administration on social media."
Simulcast - ABC News Presidential Debate | C-SPAN.org
https://www.c-span.org/video/?538053-1/simulcast-abc-news-presidential-debate
Comment: You can watch the entire Sept.10th debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump at this link.
During Tuesday's debate, Harris was in command; Trump was incoherent : Consider This from NPR : NPR
More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump
Comment: "More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA TODAY."
These a good American citizens who put Country over Party.
DNC Day 2: Barack and Michelle Obama make the case for Harris, take on Trump in fiery speeches - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dnc-day-2/
Comment: Fantastic Speeches!
Fearing a Trump takeover, Justice Department alumni endorse Kamala Harris