Harris offers Americans a chance to turn the page on Trump era on election eve – without mentioning his name

Her message has been consistent, but Kamala Harris has in the closing days of the presidential race dropped two notable words from her stump speech: Donald Trump.

Her message has been consistent, but Kamala Harris has in the closing days of the presidential race dropped two notable words from her stump speech: Donald Trump. The former president’s name was again absent from the vice president’s speech on Monday night in Pittsburgh, where she again promised voters a clean break from the discord of the Trump era in American politics. It was a notable switch in rhetoric for the vice president, who had mentioned Trump’s name so often in previous versions of her stump speech that the Republican’s campaign had put together a video compilation of Harris saying “Donald Trump” that he often played at rallies. “We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division. We are done with that,” Harris said. “We’re done. We’re exhausted with it.” That promise has been threaded through her campaign, usually implied but increasingly delivered in explicit terms. Supporters gathered at the Carrie Blast Furnaces, a former home to US Steel, sounded ready to take her up on the offer. It was one of the driving forces of her convention speech this summer in Chicago and at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, last week, where she delivered one of about a dozen closing arguments – most of them in battleground states – over the last few days of the campaign. “It can be easy to forget a simple truth,” Harris said in Washington. “It doesn’t have to be this way.” The way it is, she said in Pittsburgh, is not so good.