LANCASTER, Pennsylvania – Ms Kamala Harris turned 60 on Oct 20 in the final stretch of a knife-edge US election, making campaign stops at black churches in Georgia as her 78-year-old opponent Donald Trump served french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald's in a bid to earn working-class credibility.
Throughout the day, Ms Harris lambasted Trump's increasingly disparaging, dark language on the trail, saying in an interview on MSNBC that Americans “deserve so much better”.
“Donald Trump should never again stand behind the Seal of the President of the United States. He has not earned the right,” she said.
Recently, Trump has likened undocumented migrants to animals, threatened revenge against his perceived enemies, praised leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and described America as a ruined nation only he can fix.
And over the weekend, he used an expletive to describe Ms Harris.
Speaking at a Baptist megachurch near Atlanta, Ms Harris urged a black congregation to embrace compassionate values while others “spread hate, sow fear and cause chaos”.
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