Appearing in a competitive suburban area of southeastern Pennsylvania, the vice president tried to strike a unifying tone even as she warned that Donald Trump posed a threat to the country.
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Kamala Harris is surrounded onstage by Republican supporters as she holds a rally in Washington Crossing, Pa., on Wednesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday made her most direct and expansive pitch yet to conservative and moderate voters, appearing in Pennsylvania with a phalanx of Republican elected officials who have set aside their party loyalties to try to defeat former President Donald J. Trump.
At a campaign event in Bucks County, Pa., Ms. Harris tried to strike a unifying tone even as she castigated her opponent, casting her campaign as one that embraced anyone who believed that Mr. Trump should not serve a second term.
“Our campaign is not a fight against something — it is a fight for something,” she said. “It’s a fight for the fundamental principles upon which we were founded. It is a fight for a new generation of leadership that is optimistic about what we can achieve together — Republicans, Democrats and independents who want to move past the politics of division and blame and get things done on behalf of the American people.”
The appearance was Ms. Harris’s 11th to the battleground state since she took over the Democratic ticket, and took place in one of its most competitive suburban areas, Bucks County, which President Biden won narrowly in 2020 but where Republicans this year gained an advantage in voter registration.
Ms. Harris, who also spoke to a large Republican audience on Wednesday evening during an interview on Fox News, gave her remarks against the backdrop of a small barn lined with American flags, near where George Washington crossed the icy Delaware River during the Revolutionary War.
The event loosely resembled the one Ms. Harris held this month with former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the most prominent Republican to endorse her, in Ripon, Wis., near where the Republican Party was formed.
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