Kamala Harris has criticized Trump for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (File)
Washington:
The United States deserves a president who understands the dignity of the people and guides the country so that Americans can regain their place and come closer to their ideals, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala said on Wednesday. Harris.
In his remarks during a virtual fundraiser, Harris criticized Trump for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic fallout.
“We deserve to have a president and leadership in our country who understands the dignity of who we are and respects the dignity of who we are as a people, and guides our country, so that we can regain our stand and move closer to those ideals that we hold, ”Harris said.
“We recognize that we have over eight million people in our country who have contracted the virus, again it didn’t have to be that way, and yet we still have a president who was also the commander-in-chief. which should have, as a first priority, to keep intact the health and the well-being of Americans and it always denies the realities and the seriousness of this virus and the need to wear a mask, ”she said.
The senator, who turned 56 a day ago, said: “We are in a public health crisis and an economic crisis which is compared to the Great Depression.”
In another fundraiser, she urged her compatriots to go and vote.
“Thirteen days before. And we can’t let go of that accelerator pedal. We have to push – you know, the electric vehicle pedal that we have to push, push, push,” she said. She called herself a “proud California girl” and said “almost everything is at stake.”
Harris spoke at a campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina. More than 150 people, many of them women, were seated throughout the stadium, waving bright blue pom poms and making the sounds quiver. She urged people to vote early.
“That moment will pass, and in years, our children, our grandchildren … will ask us, ‘Where were you then? “We will tell them what we have done to fight for the soul of this nation.” Harris said.
Trump, she asserted, is incapable of being a president who will protect the well-being and health of the American people and “that’s why he has to go.”
Urging people to go to the polls in an election that will likely depend on turnout, she lambasted Trump for his ‘failure’ to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, his refusal to condemn white supremacy and his disbelief in science and climate change.
“We love our country, imperfect as it is,” she said of the reasons people were here tonight.
“And this country that is so close to our hearts – yes, it took a bit of a beating because you know who. But what we do know is our democracy and its strength will always be a function of our preparation and our will. fight for it, ”she noted.
Some of the strongest public approval came when she criticized Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to make it harder for people to vote through a complicated postal voting process. and closing the polling stations.
She drew big laughs from some when – as she did during the vice-presidential debate – she described Trump’s “strange obsession” with repealing Obama policies.
“Do you think he’s racist? Yes,” Harris said of a question she gets often. “I don’t say this lightly, it should never be said lightly. But there is a pattern here. Think of Charlottesville, ”she says.
