“I think you’ve heard tonight two very different visions for our country: One that is focused on the future and the other that has focused on the past, in an attempt to take us backward, she said.
Harris repeated her desire to create “an opportunity economy”, including investments in small businesses, families, and protecting seniors.
“I believe in what we can do together that is about sustaining America’s standing in the world and ensuring we have the respect that we so rightly deserve including respecting our military and ensuring we have the most lethal fighting force in the world,” Harris said.
She said she would “be a president that will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms.”
Trump took aim at Harris in his closing statement.
“She started by saying she is going to do this and that, do it all these wonderful things. Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for 3.5 years, they had 3.5 years to fix the border, 3.5 years to create jobs and all the things we talked about, why has she not done it? She should leave right now.”
He spoke about how he currently views the US.
“We are a failing nation. We are nation that is in serious decline. We are being laughed at all over the world, all over the world I know the leaders very well, they see me, they call me, we are laughed at all over the world they don’t understand what happened to us as a nation, we are not a leader.”
Trump ended with a comment on Harris’ approach to immigrants, saying: “What these people have done to our country and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country, many of them are criminals and they are destroying our country, the worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.”
The Reuters news agency has previously reported that a range of studies by academics and think tanks have shown that immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
— Aleisha Orr
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