“I think you heard two very different visions for our country tonight: one focused on the future and one focused on the past, trying to take us back,” he said.
Harris reiterated her desire to create “an economy of opportunity,” including investments in small businesses, families and protecting seniors.
“I believe in what we can do together, which is to support America’s place in the world and ensure that we have the respect that we rightly deserve, including respecting our military and ensuring that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world,” he said. Harris said.
He said he “will be a president who will protect our fundamental rights and freedoms.”
Trump took aim at Harris in his closing statement.
“She started by saying she was going to do this and that, all these wonderful things. Why didn’t she do it? She’s been there for 3.5 years, they’ve had 3.5 years to fix the border, 3.5 years to create places about work and all the things we talked about, why didn’t he do it now?
He talked about how he currently sees the United States.
“We are a failing nation. We are a nation in serious decline. All over the world they laugh at us, all over the world I know the leaders very well, they see me, they call me, they laugh at us everyone in the world doesn’t understand what has happened to us as a nation , we are not a leader.”
Trump concluded with a comment on Harris’ approach to immigrants, saying, “What these people did to our country, and perhaps the hardest thing of all, was allowing millions of people to come into our country , many of them are criminals and are destroying our country.” , the worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.”
The Reuters news agency previously reported that a series of studies by academics and think tanks have shown that immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
—Aleisha Orr