Vice President Kamala Harris notably did not mention her opponent, former President Donald Trump, in her final pitch to Michigan voters during a rally on Sunday.
“America is ready for a fresh start, ready for a new way forward, where we see our fellow American not as an enemy, but as a neighbor. We are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down, it is based on who you lift up,” she said as she vowed to “turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division.”
Though she has made contrasting Trump’s “enemies list” with her own “to-do list” a staple during her speeches in the final days of her campaign, Harris did not use the line this evening as she addressed young voters in East Lansing, Michigan.
“I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. In fact, I’ll give them a seat at the table, because that’s what strong leaders do,” she said, receiving applause from the room.
Harris and her allies had taken to calling the former president “unhinged” in recent weeks, as he claims the vice president is mentally impaired and he has used violent rhetoric against the press and critics like former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.
