Vice President Kamala Harris called out the dark grievances and racism that were prominent in former President Donald J. Trump’s MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night.
Kamala Harris will deliver her campaign’s “closing argument” Tuesday from the same spot in Washington where Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
She chose the spot to draw a contrast between her vision for the country and Trump’s continued lies about the 2020 election, and the risks she says his return to the White House would pose for the nation.
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Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald J. Trump on Monday of stoking division and “trying to divide our country” after speakers making bigoted and misogynistic remarks packed his rally in Manhattan on Sunday night. Referring to the rally as “that nonsense last night at Madison Square Garden,” Ms. Harris said “that’s why people are exhausted with him.”
“I always tried to be so nice and respectful,” said Mr. Trump, who in 2011 spent weeks spreading the lie that Barack Obama, the country’s first Black president, was actually born in Kenya, with the insinuation being that he was therefore illegitimately in office. He added, “She opened up a little bit of a box.”