Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing argument to voters from the Ellipse on Tuesday, standing in the very spot former President Donald Trump rallied a group of his supporters before they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. With the White House as her backdrop, Harris reiterated her central argument that Trump is a threat to democracy.

Exactly one week before the polls close, over 75,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to hear the vice president speak, according to the Harris campaign — about 22,000 more than the 53,000 supporters who gathered there for Trump's infamous Jan. 6 speech, according to the House Jan. 6 committee.

“Look, we know who Donald Trump is,” Harris told the crowd. “He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election.”

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She doubled down on casting Trump as a selfish tyrant who would take down anybody who gets in his way, calling the former president “unstable, obsessed with revenge and out for unchecked power.”

Harris argued that a second Trump term will only lead to........

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