The closing arguments delivered by Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this week underscored the stark contrasts in their character, vision and leadership. The themes and locations of the speeches also provided a window into the next four years depending on who will win the election.

Harris gave speech of your life Before a crowd of 75,000 at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. — where Trump held a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, before a riotous mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

He vowed to work across the aisle to solve problems facing average Americans: “Unlike Donald Trump, people who disagree with me enemy. He wants to put them in jail. “I will give them a place at my table.”

Harris outlined an agenda focused on lowering prices, defending abortion rights, providing health care, supporting small businesses, helping first-time homebuyers and lowering taxes for middle-class Americans. He mentioned that he would bring a “to-do list” to the Oval Office, while Trump would bring a “list of enemies.”

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Harris, 60, talked about her love for America and her career in public service fighting for the people. He has committed to signing the bipartisan border security bill Trump killed while working with Congress to pass an immigration reform measure that gives hard-working immigrants a “deserved path to citizenship.”

Harris called on voters to put the Constitution above supporting wannabe dictators, calling out past generations who fought to preserve American freedom: “Normandy and Selma, Seneca Falls and the patriots at Stonewall, on farmlands and factory floors. They did not struggle, they did not sacrifice, they did not sacrifice their lives to see us give up our basic freedoms. “They didn’t do this just to see us bow to the will of another petty tyrant.”

Trump, meanwhile, assembled a pack of D-list personalities over a six-hour period. hate festival at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Embers went out his usual list of grievances targeted immigrants and the “enemy within.” He imagined the “decapitation” of a journalist and told his supporters to prepare for the return of 18th-century laws. Measurement from 1798 this would give him the authority to round up immigrants.

Trump’s comments were as usual: indoctrinated with lies. He falsely claimed that a “brutal Venezuelan prison gang” had “taken over Times Square.” He said crime was “going through the roof” To fall last two years.

Trump also claimed that the Biden administration does not have the funds to help hurricane victims in North Carolina because they “spent all their money bringing in illegal immigrants and flying them around on nice jet planes.”

Trump’s renewed rhetoric was overshadowed by the 30 invited hangers-on. I warmed up the crowd a prayer filled with racist, antisemitic and misogynistic hatred.

So-called comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” He pointed to a Black man in the audience and said the two were “carving a watermelon together.”

Radio host Sid Rosenberg took the stage and told the crowd that the event was a “Nazi rally,” then referred to Hillary Clinton as a “sick whore.” He added that all Democrats are “anti-Semites.”

Trump supporter David Rem called Harris the “Antichrist.” Businessman Grant Cardone claimed the vice president “pimped handlers.”

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Harris, whose father is Jamaican and mother is Indian, would be “the first Samoan Malaysian, low-IQ former California prosecutor ever elected president.”

Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was indicted and lost his law license, lamented that Palestinians were “taught to kill us when we were 2 years old.”

Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, said the former president would remind us of the past by saying “America is for Americans and Americans only.” Nazi slogan“Germany for Germans.”

And that wasn’t the only parallel. The bigotry and xenophobia on display reminded me of a rally held in an old version of Madison Square Garden We support Adolf Hitler In 1939. The only things missing from the scene were boots and white caps.

Trump tried to distance himself from Hinchcliffe’s comments about Puerto Rico — which were at least intended to be humorous — but He didn’t apologize for that or any of the other outrages supporters spew.

Neither did other Republican leaders. “We had a wonderful time at Madison Square Garden last night,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Closing arguments and campaigns showed that the two presidential candidates could not be more different.

Harris hugged the woman who was in the first row at the Washington rally and offers were made appeals to a wide range of voters.

Threatened or insulted nearly everyone, including Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance Black Americans, childless women, haitians, LGBTQ people, JewryLatinos, Muslims, federal employees, judges, journalistsand Democrats.

The only people Trump and Vance haven’t attacked are billionaires, white men, and Vladimir Putin. More importantly, using hatred and division is no way to run a campaign, let alone govern a large and diverse country.

Presidents take an oath to serve all Americans. Trump in his previous term served himself. HE ignored intelligence briefings and instead mostly played golf, he tweeted, I watched television and outstretched at one of the resorts.

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Trump, 78, is not serious and inappropriate For the complex challenges of the world’s most important business. It’s important for voters to remember this; especially here in the Philadelphia area, that will help decide the election.

Trump has long mocked Philadelphia and other major cities that would suffer if he returns to office. HE requested the city was “ravaged by blood and crime”, in fact murders and crimes higher during his tenure.

Trump in 2020 too in question “Bad things are happening in Philadelphia” when he falsely claims election fraud. It’s irresponsible Fueling fears of voter fraud again in the region.

Voters face a clear choice: Harris supports joy and unity. Trump thrives on anger and division.

There is only one responsible way forward.