PHILADELPHIA — Kamala Harris informed a non secular congregation Sunday that the United States is “decided to show the web page on hate and division.”
The vice chairman’s go to to Philadelphia’s Christian Compassion Church, the place the pastor launched her throughout a worship service as “the voice of the longer term,” was the day’s first cease in Pennsylvania’s swing state’s largest metropolis and stronghold basic democracy. The presidential candidate is making an attempt to energise supporters with simply over every week to go earlier than the Nov. 5 election.
In his remarks, Harris drew on the story of the apostle Paul, who overcame hardships to unfold the phrase of Jesus.
“In troublesome instances, after we could develop weary of doing good, we should bear in mind the facility that works inside us, the divine energy that reworked Paul’s life, guided him by the shipwreck, and sustained him by trials,” he stated Harris.
After Harris spoke, W. Lonnie Herndon, the church’s senior pastor, gave a sermon on compassion and the way “sturdy individuals by no means tear others down, they raise them up.”
“In 9 days we can do that,” Herndon stated as he made the gesture of turning the web page. “Turn over the web page,” these current shouted in unison.
“We’re going to exit and vote,” he stated as Harris listened from his front-row seat. “And let me be very clear. We do not elect a pastor. We are electing a president who will tackle this divided United States and convey us collectively.”
Harris deliberate to cease later at a barbershop, a Puerto Rican restaurant and a youth basketball facility earlier than talking at a rally.
The vice chairman and Tim Walz are anticipated to go to all seven battle states within the coming days, as a part of a last blitz earlier than the Nov. 5 election.
He tried to maintain the concentrate on abortion rights late within the marketing campaign, together with throughout appearances with Beyoncé and Michelle Obama. In an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday, Harris declined to say whether or not she would assist any restrictions on abortion, stressing the necessity to reinstate Roe v. Wade.
“It’s so simple as that,” Harris stated.
Nationwide abortion rights had been overturned two years in the past by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority that included three justices appointed by Donald Trump whereas he was president.
“My first precedence is to revive these protections and cease this ache and cease this injustice that’s taking place in our nation,” Harris stated.
He additionally rejected Trump’s assertion that he wouldn’t signal a nationwide abortion ban if elected. “It says all of it, let’s go,” Harris stated. “Are we actually taking his phrase for it?”
While Harris campaigns within the swing state of Pennsylvania, her working mate might be in Las Vegas on Sunday. The Minnesota governor will go to Manitowoc and Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Monday earlier than becoming a member of Harris for a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the place singer Maggie Rogers is scheduled to carry out.
Harris might be within the nation’s capital Tuesday to ship what her marketing campaign calls her “closing argument” in a speech from the Ellipse, a grassy house close to the White House. It’s the identical place the place then-President Donald Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021, when the Republican known as on his supporters to march on the Capitol.
Walz is anticipated to marketing campaign Tuesday in Savannah and Columbus, Georgia.
Harris plans to go to North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Wednesday. The occasion in Madison, Wisconsin is anticipated to characteristic musical performances by Mumford & Sons and others.
Walz might be in Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina, that day.
Harris might be in Nevada on Thursday for rallies in Reno, Las Vegas and Phoenix. The band Maná will carry out in Las Vegas and Los Tigres del Norte will carry out in Phoenix.
Walz plans to marketing campaign in Harrisburg and Erie, Pennsylvania, and Detroit.
Megerian reported from Washington.
