'People are frankly exhausted': Harris reaches out to disaffected Republicans at town hall
October 23, 2024
At Vice President Kamala Harris' town hall in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, she was confronted by an anti-Trump Republican voter who wanted to understand what she would do to reach out to voters who feel politically homeless — and Harris had a lot to say.
"As someone who hasn't fully committed to either party, how do you plan to address the concerns of independent voters and anti-Trump Republicans like myself, who feel left out of the polarized political landscape, and what specific actions would you take to bridge the political divide and create more unity?" asked Bryn Mawr College student Natasha Kwiatkowski.
Harris called it a "wonderful question."
"I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans, and I think to the point of — in the spirit of your question, that people are frankly exhausted with what has been happening over the last several years, which is this environment that is suggesting that Americans should be pointing fingers at one another, that we are divided as a nation ... I think a majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us, and I think that the American people deserve to have a president who is grounded in what is common sense, what is practical, and what is in the best interest of the people, not themselves."
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Harris then connected this back to her own experience in criminal justice.
"I started my career as a prosecutor," noted Harris. And in that time, she added, "I have never, in my career as a prosecutor, asked a victim or a witness of a crime, are you a Democrat or a Republican? The only thing I have ever asked is, 'Are you okay?' And I do believe that is what the American people deserve in their president, and not someone who makes decisions based on who voted for them or what is in their personal interest."
"I reference that because, as we know, it has been revealed that Donald Trump, when he was president, during extreme disasters, when it came time to determine how those areas, those people who had been traumatized by extreme weather would get relief, he asked the question, did they vote for him?" Harris added. "I believe the American people deserve better, and they deserve a president who is focused on solutions, not sitting in the Oval Office plotting their revenge and retribution."
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