Democratic 2024 US presidential candidate Kamala Harris launched an attack on her rival and Republican candidate Donald Trump during her speech on Tuesday in what her campaign called a “closing speech” in which she claimed that “Trump would force states to monitor women’s pregnancies.

Speaking from the same location where, on January 6, 2021, Trump urged his supporters to “fight like hell” and march to the U.S. Capitol, Harris said: “Trump would ban abortion across the country… » restrict access to birth control and endanger IVF treatments and require states to monitor women’s pregnancies.

“…just Google Project 2025,” she said, referring to a list of ultra-conservative policy proposals for the next Republican president compiled by the Heritage Foundation think tank.

According to a report from BBCone section of the 900-page document mentions that a future administration “should use all available tools, including cutting funds, to ensure that each state reports exactly how many abortions are occurring within its borders.”

However, there is no evidence that Trump plans to require states to monitor women’s pregnancies. Furthermore, he has repeatedly sought to distance himself from Project 2025, stating: “I don’t know anything about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind all this. »

Commitments to protect the right to abortion

Harris then invoked her commitment to protecting abortion rights, arguably the central theme of her campaign.

“I believe in the fundamental freedom of Americans to make decisions about their own bodies,” she said.

Harris further said that if Congress passes a bill to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the nation’s right to abortion and was overturned in 2022 , she would “proudly” sign it into law.

‘Trump has a list of enemies and people he intends to sue’

Harris began her speech by describing the election as “a choice between a country rooted in freedom for every American or a country ruled by chaos and division.”

“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He was the one who stood in this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost,” she said.

She went on to claim that Trump had an “enemies list of people he intended to go after.”

“He says one of his highest priorities is freeing the violent extremists who attacked law enforcement on January 6. Donald Trump intends to use the US military against US citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls “the enemy from within”. America is not a presidential candidate thinking about how to improve his life. “He is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed by grievances and seeking unchecked power,” she said.

“I’ll come back with a to-do list.”

Stepping up her attack on Trump, Harris added: “From day one, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into this office with a list of enemies,” Harris said. “Once elected, I will arrive with a list of things to do.”

Trump, a “little tyrant”

In her speech, Harris also made a connection between the United States’ declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776 and the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

She said the country was born 250 years ago when “we snatched freedom from a little tyrant.”

Harris cited the soldiers who fought in World War II and the work of the civil rights era as examples of Americans who fought to preserve the nation’s values.

She added that they didn’t fight “only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant.”

“Ready to offer leadership”

Harris also presented her candidacy as a way to “turn the page on drama and conflict, fear and division.” It is time for a new generation of leaders in America and I am ready to provide that leadership as the next President of the United States of America. »

“The country above the party, above itself”

In her speech, just a week before the 2024 US presidential election, scheduled for November 5, Harris also pledged “to be a president for all Americans.” Always put the country above the party and above yourself.

“This is what I promise you. I will always listen to you, even if you don’t vote for me. I will always tell you the truth, even if it is difficult to hear. I will work every day to reach consensus and compromise to move things forward,” she said.

“A path to citizenship for hard-working immigrants”

With the election close and within sight of victory, Harris once again promised that, if elected, she would sign a bipartisan border security bill.

Harris said she would “give the Border Patrol the support they desperately need.” At the same time, we must recognize that we are a nation of immigrants, and I will work with Congress to pass immigration reform, including an earned path to citizenship for hard-working immigrants like blue-collar workers. farmers and our Dreamers.

“Let’s fight”

As she concluded her speech, Harris told thousands: “Let’s fight for this beautiful country that we love. »

“Each of you has the power to turn the page and begin writing the next chapter of the most extraordinary story ever told.”

Shortly after Harris’ speech, the Trump campaign released a reaction statement saying it had resorted to “lies, name-calling and clinging to the past to avoid admitting the truth.”

“Kamala’s first day in office was more than 1,300 days ago, and she has spent the last four years working hand-in-hand with Joe Biden to destroy our country,” Trump’s national press secretary said, Karoline Leavitt.

Leavitt claimed that a “migrant crime crisis,” high inflation and global conflict are the result of Harris’ “terrible” policies.

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