Kamala Harris tells thousands of Philadelphians to “turn the page” on Donald Trump

With a little more than a week to go until November’s election, Kamala Harris spent the day  in Philadelphia and ended her visit by rallying thousands of supporters in Northwest Philadelphia. Harris used the opportunity to meet with members of Philadelphia’s Black and Puerto Rican communities. 

Kamala Harris spent Sunday campaigning across Philadelphia and ended her latest trip to the region by rallying close to 3,000 supporters at a Northwest Philadelphia recreation center. 

“Philly, we’ve got nine days, nine days, nine days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end,” Harris said in her opening remarks.

In an effort to secure the votes of Philadelphia’s Black and Latino communities a week ahead of the election, Harris kicked off her Sunday by attending a church service in West Philadelphia as part of Souls to the Polls, a get-out-the-vote effort to increase voter turnout among Black churchgoers.

She then visited a West Philadelphia barbershop and met with members of the Puerto Rican community at a North Philadelphia restaurant, before ending her tour of the city at the Alan Horwitz “Sixth Man” youth basketball community center. 

There, Harris made clear that she and Donald Trump offered two “extremely different visions” for the US, and said Trump was only focused on the past. 

“We have the ability to turn the page on that same old tired playbook because we are exhausted with it and we are ready to chart a new way forward,” Harris said. “And yes, we will be joyful in the process.”

During her remarks, Harris emphasized the importance of Philadelphia residents taking advantage of early voting at satellite offices throughout the region, which runs through Tuesday,  Oct. 29. 

Eligible voters are able to apply for a mail-in ballot at any of the city’s satellite offices, complete it, and return it on site. 

“Now is the time to vote early. Get it done tomorrow,” Harris said.

Having the opportunity to witness history motivated Levittown resident Jamal Bush to attend his first ever political rally on Sunday. 

“This is my first time ever going to a rally, and why not be part of history,” Bush said. “I feel like history is going to be made and I want to make sure that my presence is here.”

Bush, who cast his first-ever vote for former President Barack Obama in 2008, explained that reproductive rights and having access to a quality education for his two daughters were the main reasons he planned to vote for Harris.. 

“The two obvious ones for me are for my family,” Bush said. “I got daughters, I got a wife. So reproductive rights are definitely there. Then school education. The fact that the other side would like to dismantle that, and that’s a problem.”

“Black history needs to be taught in school,” he continued. “We can’t rewrite history, we can’t change the narrative of what the facts are, the facts, but those two things clearly stand out and there’s so many other things.”