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'The View' hosts condemn Trump in review of Harris' final speech
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'The View' hosts condemn Trump in review of Harris' final speech

The hosts of The view analyzed Vice President Kamala Harris' Tuesday speech at the Ellipse and criticized former President Donald Trump for his last appearance there on Jan. 6.

Spectators gathered in Washington, DC to hear Harris' final speech at the same venue where Trump's infamous “Save America” ​​speech took place.

“75,000 people supported her, and it looked like the United States of America I know – black, white, Latino, LGBTQ, old, young, everyone was there,” co-host Sunny Hostin said during the episode on Wednesday. “It looked like the country I know. It didn’t look like a white nationalist rally.”

Harris' event at the Ellipse came a week before Election Day and followed Trump's closing arguments Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Washington, DC on October 29, 2024. The host of “The View” discussed Harris' speech as she and Republican nominee Donald Trump enter the final week before…


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Harris said during her Ellipse speech that Trump “has spent a decade dividing the American people and making them afraid of each other.”

The vice president also criticized Trump's comments that he would pursue the “enemy from within” if elected to the White House. Despite facing widespread backlash for his comments in recent weeks, Trump repeated the phrase during his speech at Madison Square Garden, telling his supporters: “We're going up against a huge, corrupt, evil left-wing machine that's running the Democratic Party.” She is clever and vicious, they are the enemy within, we must defeat them.”

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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, left, speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York, and Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, right, speaks at a…


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Co-host Joy Behar said Trump often refers to “the enemy within,” drawing a connection to the Kent State killings.

“The National Guard was sent by Richard Nixon to kill children at Kent State University for protesting. They shot our children,” Behar said. “The National Guard shot American children. When he says the enemy comes from within, what comes to mind is that they will shoot children who protest on campus.”

Trump held his rally at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, the same day a mob of his supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying the 2020 election, in which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.

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President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington on January 6, 2021.

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“Those images of standing and reclaiming that space and also showing a woman in front of the White House looking like a president, I think was incredibly powerful,” said co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin.

Farah Griffin said she remembers Jan. 6 vividly, even though it came after she resigned as a political commentator and former director of strategic communications at the White House.

She remembers Trump saying, “If Mike Pence has the guts to do that,” adding, “I just had a sinking feeling in my stomach and thought, 'You're just putting him in so much danger.' There is a mob. There are people who are ready to march because he told them to.”

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Alyssa Farah, Director of Strategic Communications at the White House, speaks during a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House on October 6, 2020 in Washington, DC

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Farah Griffin said Trump is already trying to undermine the election.

“If he says there's fraud in Pennsylvania, he's just lying,” Farah Griffin said. “He's coming up again on January 6th and it could only be a few months before we say something like this will happen again because this man is incapable of losing and doing what's right for the country do.”

Whoopi Goldberg emphasized the importance of participation, stating that everyone must participate in the election because every vote counts.

“Everyone needs to come out – all LGBTQ people, all black people, white people, white women, black women, Asian people, Puerto Ricans. That's up to us if we want a country that we're in.” We don't have to tell our kids, “Hey, there's a chance we're all going to have to leave if this man comes in.”

The 2024 presidential election is just six days away and features a high-stakes duel between Harris and Trump.

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