Vice President Harris kicked off the final stretch of the election campaign on Tuesday evening with a speech delivered at the Ellipse, within sight of the White House.

The Ellipse is also where former President Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021, right before the Capitol riot.

Harris invoked the memory of that day in the service of making a larger case against Trump. But she sought to make a broader argument too.

Her speech came with the two candidates essentially deadlocked in opinion polls — and with more than 50 million votes already cast.

Here are the main takeaways from Harris’s remarks

A strong performance

Overall, it was a good performance from Harris at a big moment.

She spoke forcefully but with flashes of humor, seeking to weave together a lot of strands — an attack on Trump, a summary of her own platform, a biographical narrative for those voters who are still not comfortable with her, and a defense on her more vulnerable issues.

There were no obvious stumbles, gaffes or other moments when things went awr­y — although President Biden added his own complication during a separate video call.

Harris is also enjoying a good few days, after a stretch of the campaign when she had fallen from her earlier polling highs and Trump seemed to edge just slightly ahead in the race for the White House.

But the Trump campaign has spent two days enmeshed in a controversy of its own making, after a comedian at his big rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday made a racist crack about Puerto Rico.

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