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'Day after MSG debacle' damage control fails for Donald as 'enemies within' attend Ellipse speech [1]

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Date: 2024-10-29  

75,000 at the White House Ellipse speech. Seven days left. The ‘Petty Tyrant’ must be defeated.

As advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris were mulling where to stage the final major address of her campaign, they had a few boxes to check.

The venue, they believed, must convey a degree of gravity about the choice before voters. But equally important, in their view, was its ability to evoke the promise of the office she seeks.

In the Ellipse – the patch of park where Donald Trump rallied his supporters on January 6, 2021, within view of the White House – they believe they found that equilibrium.

“It’s really a reminder of the gravity of the job, how much a president can do for good and for bad, to shape the country and impact people’s lives,” Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the campaign chair, said Tuesday.

“But it’s also a stark visualization of probably the most infamous example of Donald Trump and how he’s used his power for bad, really focusing on himself and spreading division and chaos and inciting a mob to try to maintain his own power and put himself over the country.”

For Harris, striking a balance between dire warnings about a rival she calls a fascist and forward-looking optimism about the president she would be has become a defining challenge of the campaign’s closing stretch.

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