WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday that none of the vitriol at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden will support the dreams and aspirations of the American people but will instead “fuel the efforts to to divide our country.”
She said Trump’s event on Sunday, during which speakers hurled vicious and racist insults, “underscored the point I’ve been making throughout this campaign.”
“He is focused and basically fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country, and it is in no way something that will strengthen the American family, the American worker,” the Democratic presidential candidate told reporters. She traveled to Michigan on Monday to continue her campaign with eight days to go before the Nov. 5 election.
She said she would point out that “there’s a big difference between he and I” in the big campaign closing speech she plans to deliver Tuesday night on the Ellipse near the White House.
In 2021, Trump, the former president and current Republican candidate, rallied supporters during a speech at the Ellipse before telling them to go to the Capitol, where they rioted in an attempt to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election to make.
Harris also said, “What he did last night is not a discovery. It’s just more of the same and perhaps more lively than usual. Donald Trump spends all his time trying to get Americans to point fingers at each other, stoking the fuel of hatred and division, and that’s why people are exhausted of him.”
Trump’s campaign has tried to distance itself from what was said at the event, including a speaker who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.”
