‘Make No Mistake, We Will Win’: Harris Expresses Optimism in the Final Stretch
Vice president buoys supporters with less than a week before Election Day
Hoping to avoid the fate which doomed Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations, Vice President Kamala Harris has been assiduously careful to call herself and her running mate the underdogs in this year’s election.
But while she continued to deliver her consistent theme of having to do the “hard work” needed to defeat Donald Trump, Harris Wednesday seemed also to allow a bit of optimism shine through at a campaign event in battleground Pennsylvania.
Since she unexpectedly joined the race for the White House this summer, the vice president has worked overtime not to project a cocky or overconfident attitude.
Democrats remember, all too well, the pain when former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was widely expected to trounce Trump eight years ago — only to fall to him in a narrow loss in the all-important Electoral College.
Harris and her campaign has taken that experience to heart as she barnstormed the country, always reminding supporters that she and running mate, Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, are the underdogs to Trump in his third run for president.
And, in what’s become one of her most-memorable lines in her campaign speeches, she’s always telling supporters about the need to do the hard work to win because “hard work is good work.”
And she certainly returned to that theme, speaking at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa.
But she also seemed to add a little bit of a more-optimistic flourish, as well, with less than a week until Election Day.
“Because we have just six days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and we have work to do. We still have a lot of work to do, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work is joyful work,” Harris said, adding, more-assuredly, “And make no mistake, we will win. We will win. We will win.”
She also reminded those at the rally the opportunity that exists if voters defeat Trump next Tuesday.
“And part of the reason we will win is because I do believe when you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for. And we know we have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other,” Harris said. “That is who he is. But, Pennsylvania, that is not who we are. And I know plenty of folks are just exhausted with it all and know that it is time to stop pointing fingers and to start locking arms.
“It is time. It is time for a new generation of leadership in America,” she added, to cheering and applause from the crowd.
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