US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) joins US tv producer Oprah Winfrey at a ‘Unite for America’ reside streaming rally in Farmington Hills, Michigan, on September 19, 2024. (AFP)
FARMINGTON HILLS – Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally hosted by speak present legend Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, as her US presidential election rival Donald Trump addressed an anti-Semitism occasion.
Hollywood stars together with Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller beamed in remotely to lavish reward by way of screens on the Democratic vice chairman on the “Unite for America” occasion.
Sitting on a chat-show fashion stage, Winfrey began by asking Harris about what appeared a sudden burst in confidence — “a veil or one thing dropped” — after she changed President Joe Biden as nominee.
“We every have these moments in our lives when it’s a must to step up,” the 59-year-old Harris replied.
The pair hugged as Harris arrived on stage on the rally in Michigan, one of many seven essential battleground states that can resolve the knife-edge November 5 election.
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Harris urged Individuals to unite in opposition to the “highly effective forces that may attempt to divide us”, represented by Republican former president Trump.
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The Democrat then talked by her key marketing campaign factors, starting from abortion to financial system and immigration, as she confronted softball questions from Winfrey.
TV celebrity Winfrey, who additionally spoke on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago in August, mentioned as she launched Harris that she felt “hope and pleasure rising.”
Teams together with “Swifties for Harris” (made up of followers of Harris-backing pop star Taylor Swift) and “Cat Women for Kamala” (girls mocking feedback by Trump’s working mate J.D. Vance on childless individuals) tuned in remotely.
‘Head examined’
The US election is successfully neck-and-neck as Harris and Trump attempt to eke out each vote with 47 days left till polling day.
Harris obtained a lift from a New York Instances/Siena ballot exhibiting her marginally forward in Pennsylvania, maybe probably the most essential of all of the swing states, however the survey additionally put her and Trump degree nationwide.
Her glitzy occasion contrasted with the darker tone taken by Trump at an anti-Semitism occasion within the capital, Washington.
Accusing Harris of failing to again Israel after the October 7 assaults by Hamas, Trump mentioned that “greater than every other individuals on Earth, Israel, I imagine, has to defeat her.”
Trump added that “any Jewish individual that votes for her… ought to have their head examined.”
The difficulty may very well be a vital one within the election.
The US “Uncommitted” motion, which opposes the Biden-Harris administration’s navy and political assist for Israel’s warfare on Gaza, mentioned on Thursday it will not be backing Harris within the election.
It additionally threatens Harris’s slender margins in Michigan, the place there’s a giant Arab-American group in opposition to the warfare.
Harris’s working mate Tim Walz in the meantime on Thursday met with the households of Individuals held hostage by Hamas because the assault.
He mentioned after the assembly that Biden and Harris would “proceed doing all the things potential to convey them residence.”
Trump and Harris are additionally battling for assist from US unions.
The highly effective Teamsters union on Wednesday declined to endorse a presidential candidate, in a blow for Harris because it had 1 / 4 century custom of endorsing Democrats.
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However Harris’s marketing campaign mentioned nonetheless that native Teamsters branches representing a million individuals had since mentioned they endorsed her.
