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Kamala Harris Faces Biggest Test of Political Career in Tonight's DNC Keynote Speech

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(The Guardian) Harris to deliver keynote address at Democratic national convention
Kamala Harris will deliver the keynote address tonight as she formally accepts her party’s historic presidential nomination. Harris’ remarks will close out the fourth and final night of the convention, which has seen delegates treated to speeches from the Democratic party’s most powerful players as they have thrown their support unequivocally behind Harris. Last night saw speeches by Bill Clinton, the former president, Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, and Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance, will hold separate battleground state events today focused on immigration as their campaign tries to paint the Democrats as weak on border security.

Harris to face biggest test of her political life with DNC speech
Kamala Harris will tonight face the biggest test of her political life so far when she addresses the Democratic national convention in Chicago in a bid to persuade American voters to defeat Donald Trump in November’s presidential election and put her in the White House.

In addressing the Democratic convention on Thursday night – and by proxy the wider US electorate watching in their millions on television – Harris will be making a direct pitch to voters to back her vision for the United States.

Harris’s campaign has sought to portray a more optimistic, future-focused view of the country than her rival, and perhaps also than that of Joe Biden, who based much of his pitch on dark warnings of Donald Trump’s autocratic sympathies.

It is expected that Harris’s speech will seek to lay out her personal story as she bids to become a historic president: the first woman president and the first woman of color due to her south Asian and Black background. Her speech is likely to focus on her work as a prosecutor, defending victims of crime.

But her speech will also lay out a sharp contrast between her positive view of the country’s future prospects and Trump’s almost wholly grim warnings about the state of the nation and his focus on immigration and crime.
 
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(The Guardian) Harris to say election is a 'chance to chart a New Way Forward', call Trump 'an unserious man'
When she closes out the Democratic convention this evening with a speech that is to be the most closely watched of her political career, Kamala Harris will tell Americans that voting for her will turn a fresh page in the country’s politics, and keep an “unserious man” out of the White House.

“With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past. A chance to chart a New Way Forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans,” Harris will say, according to excerpts of the speech released by her campaign.

Considering that they capitalized “New Way Forward”, one wonders if this is not the debut of a new campaign slogan.

Harris will continue: I know there are people of various political views watching tonight. And I want you to know: I promise to be a President for all Americans. ... I will be a President who unites us around our highest aspirations. A President who leads -- and listens. Who is realistic. Practical. And has common sense. And always fights for the American people. From the courthouse to the White House, that has been my life’s work.

The vice-president will say this about Donald Trump, and the conservative-dominated supreme court: We know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in “Project 2025.” … In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious … Consider the power he will have— especially after the United States supreme court just ruled he would be immune from criminal prosecution.
 

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