In a Tuesday interview with NBC News, Vice President Kamala Harris faced questions about whether sexism is a factor in the presidential election and said she was not making any assumptions about whether voters would make choices based on race or gender.
Polls show Harris, the Democratic nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, in an extremely tight race, largely marked by gender difference in voters’ preferences. Polls show Harris winning women’s votes while Trump is stronger among men.
As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 24.5 million votes had been documented, according to the Early University of Florida Voting Lab early voting tracker. Among states with party registration data, Democrats led the way with about 5.3 million people registered with that party and voting, compared with about 4.3 million for Republicans and 2.7 million for no party or other party.
When asked by NBC News’ Hallie Jackson about whether Harris sees sexism in the race, the veep pointed out that her campaign events, “whether they’re small events or events with 10,000 people,” feature both men and women participate.
“So my experience clearly shows that regardless of gender, someone wants to know that their president has a plan to cut costs, that their president has a plan to secure America in the context of our position in the world,” Harris said.
When Jackson asked Harris if she didn’t see sexism as a factor in race at all, Harris replied, “I don’t think of it that way.”
“My challenge is to make sure I can talk to as many voters as possible, listen to them and get their votes. “I will never assume that anyone in our country should choose a leader because of their gender or race,” he says. he said.
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Harris, if elected, would become the first female president, the first Black female president and the first president of South Asian descent.
Asked if the country was now ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be president, Harris replied: “Absolutely.”
“As you know, I started as a prosecutor. I have never asked a crime victim or a crime witness, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?” The only thing I ever asked them was, “Are you okay?” – Harris said.
“And that’s what Americans want to know – regardless of race, gender, age – they want to know that they have a president who sees them, understands their needs and focuses on their needs, understands what we all deserve to have a president focused on solutions, and not only by fanning the flames of division and hatred,” she added.
When asked why she was reluctant to discuss the historic nature of her candidacy during the campaign, Harris replied that she was “certainly a woman” and “doesn’t need to remind anyone of that.”
“What most people are really interested in is can you do the job and do you have a plan to actually focus on them? That’s why I spend most of my time listening to and then solving the problems, challenges, dreams, ambitions and aspirations of the American people.”
Harris said the country deserves a president who “focuses on them, not Donald Trump, who is relentlessly focused on himself.”
Biden: ‘We have to shut him down… shut him down politically’
Meanwhile, talking about Democratic Campaign Office on Tuesday in Concord, New Hampshire, President Joe Biden sparked controversy when he said “we have to lock him up” in reference to Trump.
Biden, who drew applause and cheers from the crowd, quickly backtracked, adding, “lock him up politically.”
“Lock him down, that’s what we have to do,” Biden said.
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Trump – who he was convicted earlier this year on 34 felonies in New York State — repeatedly raised allegations of “political persecution.”
In response, Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement Wednesday that “Joe Biden just admitted the truth: He and Kamala have planned from the beginning to politically persecute their opponent, President Trump, because they cannot beat him fair and square.”
Leavitt said the Biden-Harris administration poses a “real threat to democracy,” while calling on Harris to “condemn Joe Biden’s disgraceful remark.”
Kelly Speaks Out About Hitler, Fascists Stir Controversy
In an interview for New York TimesJohn F. Kelly – the former president’s longest-serving chief of staff and a former four-star Marine general – said Trump “more than once commented, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too.'”
When asked if Trump was a “fascist,” Kelly replied that he “certainly fits the general definition of a fascist,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Atlantic also published a shocking article on Tuesday, part of which reported that Trump said: “I need generals like Hitler had.”
In response to the recent reports, Harris said Wednesday in brief remarks outside the vice president’s residence before leaving for Pennsylvania that “it is deeply disturbing and extremely dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.” .
“This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked side by side with him in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room,” she added.
In a statement Wednesday, the Trump campaign pointed to reports of friendship between The Atlantic’s owner and Harris, saying it was “not surprising that The Atlantic would publish false smears in the run-up to the election in an attempt to help Kamala Harris’s failing campaign.”
Walz and his family cast their votes
According to the summary report, Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, cast his ballots Wednesday at the Ramsey County elections office in St., along with his wife, Gwen, and son, Gus. Paul, Minnesota.
According to the report, Walz told the woman at the counter that 18-year-old Gus was voting for the first time and that he was “very excited about it.”
Vance on schools and immigration
During Tuesday’s campaign event in Peoria, Arizona, Trump ally, Ohio GOP Sen. J.D. Vance, claimed that Harris “took advantage of programs that are supposed to aid people fleeing tyranny and used them to grant amnesty to millions upon millions of people who have no right to be in the country and this must end.”
“I mean, we have thousands of kids in Arizona schools right now who don’t even speak the native, local language of Arizona, sometimes they don’t even speak, of course, Spanish, because we have illegal immigrants coming in from all over the world,” he added.
“How does it affect the education of American children when their teachers do not teach them but focus on children who have no legal right to be here? Again, nothing against children, but we cannot have a border policy that ruins the quality of American education.”
However, the Arizona Republic reported that children who have confined English proficiency in Arizona are taught in separate classrooms from English-speaking children, and bilingual education was eliminated in the state in 2000.
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