I think it’s very important that everyone can vote without any hindrance: Kamala Harris
Fayetteville, United States:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has called for a decisive mandate from the Americans so that no legal battle can overturn the election results.
U.S. President Donald Trump denied on Sunday that he planned to declare victory prematurely after the presidential poll ended on Tuesday, but hinted that he was preparing for a legal battle in the mail-order and mail-vote count after the ‘election.
He criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to allow receipt of ballots after election day in several battlefield states.
“Well, first of all we plan to decisively win this election so I don’t, I don’t think we’re going to have to get to this,” Harris, 56, told reporters one day. of hectic countryside with stops in this city of North Carolina and Georgia.
In the past few days, polls indicate the November 3 presidential election is tightening, even as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continues to maintain a substantial lead over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.
“We have traveled all over the country and this is because we really know that the people of these different states have so much at stake in the election outcome and they literally deserve to be seen and heard and so we have been in it all. the country, and every state matters, ”Ms. Harris said.
“I think it’s very important that everyone can vote without any hindrance, without any intimidation, without any hindrance,” Ms Harris told reporters, a point she underscored in her two speeches in both states. of the battlefield of Georgia and the North. Caroline.
There are leaders and groups, she asserted, who try to make it difficult and confusing to suggest that ordinary people cannot trust the process. “In fact, during this first debate, the President of the United States took the step in front of 70 million Americans and openly encouraged a suppression of the vote,” she said.
“Not to mention what he does and what they do to play with the post office. The post office. The best people in the world work for the post office,” she told people. de Fayetteville at a rally here. Between 40 and 70 cars attended the rally.
“We have to ask ourselves why we think so many powerful people are doing all they can to make voting so difficult and confusing for us. And I think the answer is they know our power. They know our power. They know when we vote, things change. They know that when we vote we win, ”she said.
Urging her supporters never to let anyone take their power from them, she said: “Let us use the power of our strong voices every day in the mind of John Lewis, in the mind of the suffragists, in the minds of all des generations of people here and in the future who are counting on us to know what is at stake and to mobilize, stand up and fight for this country we love. “
Its gatherings have a large black population and those from African-American communities.
Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Ms Harris is the first black woman of Indian descent and the first black woman to be chosen by a major American political party for the highest office.
Ms Harris was a presidential contender until last year before dropping out of the race due to lack of popular support. She returned to the forefront of politics after Biden chose her as his running mate.
“Don’t let anyone make you feel small. How big you are. You are strong. You have the power and at election time that power will come through your vote and you will tell them when they will ask you to elect Joe Biden as president of the elections. United States, ”she said.
“When we vote, when our parents vote, when our aunts and uncles, our friends and neighbors vote, we win. Fayetteville, I am so excited to join you in voting tonight, ”Ms. Harris said in a tweet before arriving in this town.
