US Election 2024 Live: Kamala Harris calls on voters to denounce Trump’s ‘division and fear tactics’

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is up against Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump.

“This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power,” she declared in her speech, given just one week before the pivotal election that many consider the most dramatic and divisive in modern history.

Standing behind bulletproof screens beside blue signs reading “Freedom,” Harris said that the election represented a choice between a “country rooted in freedom for every American, or ruled by chaos and division.”

Harris reminded the audience that Trump had stood in the same place nearly four years earlier and “sent an armed mob” to the Capitol.

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– Maricopa County, Arizona, has emerged as the nation’s most critical swing county, potentially deciding whether Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump will become the next president, as well as which party controls the US Senate.

– The county’s political division is so tight that it can take over a week to determine the winner. This year, election officials have warned that it could take as long as 13 days to count all the ballots in Maricopa. This prolonged counting process has made Maricopa County—home to Phoenix and many other communities—a focal point for election conspiracy theories.

– On Wednesday, China’s government suggested that if Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election, he might “discard” Taiwan, given that the United States has consistently followed an “America first” policy.

– Trump, the Republican candidate who is in a tight race with Vice President Kamala Harris in the polls, has made multiple remarks during his campaign, stating that Taiwan, which China claims, should bear the cost of its protection and accusing the island of taking American semiconductor business.

– Responding to pressure from some allies to apologize for the racist remarks made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took a different stance on Tuesday, stating it was an “honour to be involved” in such an event and referring to the gathering as a “lovefest”—a term he has previously used to describe the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

– Kamala Harris warned that a second term for Donald Trump would lead to chaos and division, rather than addressing the needs of Americans, as she sought to energise voters from the National Mall just one week before Election Day.

(With inputs from agencies)