Vice President Kamala Harris asserted that it is “clear” that former President Donald Trump is “increasingly unstable and unhinged” during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania where she is courting Republican voters ahead of the November election.
Harris, using a line she has recently started implementing, also argued that the former president is seeking “unchecked power” during her second campaign event in Pennsylvania this week. The vice president held a rally in Erie on Monday and will likely continue blanketing the hotly contested battleground in the days leading up to Nov. 5.
Harris opened her remarks in Washington Crossing on Wednesday by calling back to how that town got its name: the 1776 crossing of the Delaware River by then-Gen. George Washington.
“We remember and reflect on what that moment was, knowing that leading up to that, that work to write, to compose the Constitution of the United States, that work was not easy,” she stated. “The founders often disagreed, often quite passionately, but in the end, the Constitution of the United States laid out the foundations of our democracy, including the rule of law, that there would be checks and balances, that we would have free and fair elections and a peaceful transfer of power.”
Harris claimed to be joined Thursday by more than 100 Republican officials backing her 2024 campaign, on top of the group of gathered Republican Pennsylvania voters in attendance.
“You all being here with me might be a bit surprising, dare I say unusual, but not in this election because at stake in this race are the democratic ideals that our founders and generations of Americans before us have fought for,” she continued. “We are here today because we share a core belief that we must put country before party.”
The vice president had previously vowed to place a Republican in her Cabinet and stand up a bipartisan counsel of advisers at the White House, promises she reiterated in Pennsylvania.
And when it came to addressing her opponent, Harris doubled down on calling Trump not only unfit for office but also a direct threat to democracy.
“America must heed this warning because anyone who tramples on our democratic values as Donald Trump has, anyone who has called for the quote termination of the Constitution of the United States as Donald Trump has, must never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States,” Harris declared.
“No matter your party, no matter who you voted for last time, there is a place for you in this campaign,” she closed. “The coalition we have built has room for everyone who is ready to turn the page on the chaos and instability of Donald Trump and I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.”
Pennsylvania, the battleground state with the most Electoral College votes, might very well decide the outcome of the 2024 election. President Joe Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by less than 70,000 votes, and the race remains neck-and-neck heading into the final weeks of the race.
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Real Clear Politics’s polling average shows Trump holding a less-than-1-point lead on aggregate in the state, while FiveThirtyEight’s average shows Harris up by a similar margin.
You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below.
