Report from Pennsylvania: Marc Lamont Hill on Harris's Closing Speech & Dangers of a Trump Victory

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Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argument Tuesday in a major speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., scene of the Trump rally in 2021 that led to the Capitol riot. Harris described Trump as a tyrant who would shred the rule of law if given another four years in office. The Republican campaign, meanwhile, is still dealing with fallout from Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, where speakers made a series of racist and dehumanizing remarks about Puerto Ricans, Black people, Palestinians and more. For more on the state of the race with less than a week to go before Election Day, we speak with journalist, author and academic Marc Lamont Hill, who says despite Kamala Harris’s flaws, her message to voters is clear: “Donald Trump is worse.” Hill also discusses President Joe Biden’s role in the Democratic campaign, the exaggerated migration of Black men to the Republican camp and the threat of violence if Trump loses again. “No one is safe in a Trump presidency. No one is safe the day after a Trump loss,” says Hill.

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