副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯告诉记者，她周五在关键的战场州宾夕法尼亚州竞选时“对宾夕法尼亚州感觉非常好”，尽管支持者和批评者都出来了。
在宾夕法尼亚州约翰斯顿的一家咖啡馆兼书店Classic Elements，哈里斯对记者说:“我对宾夕法尼亚州的感觉非常好，因为宾夕法尼亚州有很多人值得被看到和听到。”
哈里斯说:“我将继续在全州巡回，以确保我听到的和我们说的一样多。”“最终，我非常强烈地感觉到，必须赢得每一张选票，这意味着要花时间与他们所在社区的人们在一起。这就是我来这里的原因。”
她补充道，“我们将会在宾夕法尼亚州待更长时间。”
那次访问的一部分包括采访一位费城ABC新闻附属机构由于哈里斯面临特朗普和其他共和党人的批评，即她除了8月29日与CNN坐下来谈谈之外，没有接受过更多的新闻媒体采访。
哈里斯和前总统唐纳德·特朗普在宾夕法尼亚州仍处于激烈的竞争中，获得538张选票宾夕法尼亚州总统平均投票率截至周五下午，两位候选人之间的差距不到一个百分点。
两个竞选活动都将寻求赢得该州，拜登在2020年以约1%的优势赢得该州——四年前特朗普以略低于1%的优势获胜。
在她与记者交谈之前，哈里斯与商店的老板聊了聊，而民主党宾夕法尼亚州参议员约翰·费特曼和他的妻子吉赛尔·费特曼在一旁观看。
哈里斯谈到了她成长过程中的一个小企业主邻居，她是她的“第二个母亲”。哈里斯还称赞了工作人员的工作。
当哈里斯走进咖啡馆的主座位区时，一位顾客喊道:“卡玛拉，我们爱你!”对于“副总统女士”的掌声和评论，哈里斯回应道:“我感谢你，谢谢你。”
哈里斯对赞助人说，“我们正在一起做这件事。但是我想来约翰斯顿…我想来参观这个小企业-你知道，我关心的很多工作都是关于建设社区的，对吗?有很多方法可以做到这一点……其中之一就是我们的小企业。”
但是哈里斯在书店外面遇到了支持者和反对者。
在书店附近，临时围栏后面的人举着既支持哈里斯又支持特朗普的牌子。
可以听到一个人高喊“美国!”而另一个人则高呼“我们不会回去”——这在她的竞选活动中经常可以听到。
可以看到一个人举着一个牌子，上面写着，“连我的狗都讨厌特朗普。”
早些时候，当她在约翰斯顿着陆时，有一大群人聚集在机场的停机坪上;迎接哈里斯的是费特曼夫妇和约翰斯顿市长弗兰克·贾纳科维奇。
当车队驶往书店时，一些医护人员在街道两旁竖起中指，举着一个牌子，上面写着“哈里斯·苏克斯”
这次访问是在周五晚上哈里斯将在宾夕法尼亚州威尔克斯-巴雷举行的集会之前进行的，在哈里斯、竞选伙伴州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹和其他人在竞选结束后发起的战场州摇摆中ABC新闻总统辩论星期二。
一位接近竞选团队的消息人士告诉ABC新闻，虽然哈里斯竞选团队正在推动与特朗普的另一场辩论，但他们认为无论结果如何，这都是一个“双赢”的局面。
竞选团队的想法是，如果特朗普拒绝，他就是一个“懦夫”，美国人记得的最后一件事是哈里斯对特朗普的激烈辩论;但据消息人士称，如果特朗普同意另一场辩论，那么哈里斯将再次表现强劲。
消息人士补充说，事实上，副总统甚至可能不希望再有一场辩论，这样她就不必花时间准备辩论了。据知情人士透露，哈里斯非常认真地对待她的准备工作，另一场辩论将使她在选举前的关键日子里退出竞选。
据竞选消息人士透露，哈里斯的竞选活动正进入一个更加激烈的阶段，她补充说，她将接受更多采访，但主要是当地新闻和有影响力的人。
其中一次采访是ABC费城站WPVI周五晚上，这是副总统获得提名后的第一次单独采访。
WPVI主持人布莱恩·塔夫(Brian Taff)就几个话题提出了问题，首先是经济，敦促哈里斯详细说明她上个月在北卡罗来纳州推出的“机会经济”提案，她在周二的辩论中强调了这一点。
哈里斯没有就她的计划提供任何新的细节，而是强调了现有的想法，即提供税收减免以创建小企业，为私营部门的房屋建筑商提供税收抵免以解决住房需求，以及为首次购房者提供首付援助
当被问及如果当选总统，她会与乔·拜登有何不同时，哈里斯说:“嗯，我显然不是乔·拜登。而且，你知道，我提供新一代的领导。”
塔夫指出了一个以前鲜为人知的事实哈里斯有枪，她在周二的辩论中提出了这个问题，并问她对枪支所有权的立场。
哈里斯说，她不会从美国人手中夺走枪支，但她支持枪支安全法。
“我支持第二修正案，我支持合理的枪支安全法。所以我强烈认为这与第二修正案是一致的。以及你拥有枪支的权利。也就是说我们需要一个攻击性武器禁令，”她说。
“它们实际上是战争的工具，”哈里斯继续说道。“我认为我们需要普遍的背景调查。全国步枪协会的大多数成员都支持这一点。为什么?因为这是合理的。你可能想知道。”
塔夫问副总统，她将如何吸引那些尚未拿定主意的选民，或者那些“认同(特朗普的)价值观，但对其他事情持开放态度的选民?”
哈里斯回答说:“我根据自己的经验和亲身经历，心里明白，我知道，在我的灵魂深处，我知道，作为美国人，我们中的绝大多数人有着比我们之间的分歧更多的共同点。”。“我还相信，我准确地知道，大多数美国人想要一个能让我们团结起来的领导人，而不是一个自称是试图让我们相互指责的领导人。”
哈里斯还指出，几位主要的共和党人都支持她的候选人资格，包括前副总统迪克·切尼，并强调她专注于创建一个大帐篷，认为特朗普的做法使人们更愿意走到一起，即使他们并不总是同意。
“我认为，鉴于我们看到唐纳德·特朗普表现出的仇恨和分裂，人们现在更愿意说，嘿，让我们把国家放在第一位。我认为这只会让我们作为一个国家更加强大和健康，”哈里斯说。“要说，听着，我们可以围绕各种政策辩论我们的分歧，但让我们停止分裂。差不多，够了。让我们把大家聚集在一起。”
当晚晚些时候，在威尔克斯大学麦克黑尔体育中心举行的集会上，展示了跨党派团结的信息，数千人聚集在那里聆听副总统的讲话。
Harris是由Mary-Grace Vadalla介绍的，她自称是终身的共和党人，并分享了她妈妈在2016年投票给特朗普，然后在疫情期间死于新冠肺炎的故事，Vadalla说她责怪特朗普。
哈里斯首先讲述了她对虐待老人、工人被错误剥夺工资、房屋止赎危机以及“像锡那罗亚卡特尔这样贩运毒品并威胁我们社区安全的跨国犯罪组织”的起诉记录。
哈里斯说:“我对这些卡特尔有第一手的了解，作为总统，我将确保我们在法律的最大范围内起诉他们，因为他们向我们的孩子推销像芬太尼这样的毒药。”
然后，她将矛头指向特朗普，并提到了周二的辩论，批评他在对峙期间的言论，他说他有一个改善医疗保健计划的“概念”。
“同样的老一套，我们已经听了很多年，却没有任何计划，”哈里斯说。他没有计划如何解决美国人民的需求。伙计们，是时候翻开新的一页了。翻过这一页。我们不会回去的。我们不会回去的。”
Harris says she's 'feeling very good about Pennsylvania' during campaign stop in battleground state
Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters she was "feeling very good about Pennsylvania" while campaigning on Friday in the key battleground state, even as both supporters and detractors came out for the occasion.
In an unannounced stop at Classic Elements, a cafe and bookstore in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Harris told reporters, "I am feeling very good about Pennsylvania, because there are a lot of people in Pennsylvania who deserve to be seen and heard."
"I will be continuing to travel around the state to make sure that I'm listening as much as we are talking," Harris said. "And ultimately, I feel very strongly that -- got to earn every vote, and that means spending time with folks in the communities where they live. And so that's why I'm here."
She added, "We're going to be spending a lot more time in Pennsylvania."
Part of that visit included an interview with anPhiladelphia ABC News affiliateas Harris faces criticism from Trump and other Republicans that she hasn't done extended news media interviews beyond a sit-down with CNN on Aug. 29.
Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a tight race in Pennsylvania, with 538'spresidential polling average for Pennsylvaniashowing less than a percentage point between the candidates as of Friday afternoon.
Both campaigns will look to win the state, which Biden won by about a 1% margin in 2020 -- four years after Trump won by slightly less than 1%.
Before she spoke with reporters, Harris chatted with the store's owner while Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman and his spouse Giselle Fetterman looked on.
Harris spoke about a small business owner neighbor she had growing up who was a "second mother" to her. Harris also praised the staff for their work.
When Harris went into the main seating area of the café, a patron called out, "Kamala, we love you!" to which Harris responded, "I appreciate you, thank you" to applause and comments of "Madame Vice President."
Speaking to the patrons, Harris said, "We're doing it together. But I wanted to come to Johnstown … I wanted to come and visit this small business -- you know, a lot of the work I care about is about building community, right? There are many ways to do that … one of them is our small businesses."
But Harris encountered both supporters and detractors outside of the bookstore.
Near the bookstore, people behind temporary fencing held signs that were both supportive of Harris and supportive of Trump.
One person could be heard chanting "USA!" while another chanted "We're not going back" -- which can often be heard at her campaign events.
And one person could be seen holding up a sign that said, "Even my dog hates Trump."
Earlier, when she landed in Johnstown, there was a large crowd gathered at the airport hanger; Harris was greeted by the Fettermans and Johnstown Mayor Frank Janakovic.
As the motorcade drove to the bookstore, some healthcare workers lined a street holding up middle fingers and a sign that said, "Harris sux."
The visit came ahead of a Friday evening rally Harris is set to hold in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and amid a battleground-state swing by Harris, running mate Gov. Tim Walz, and others launched after theABC News presidential debateon Tuesday.
While the Harris campaign is pushing for another debate with Trump, they believe it’s a “win-win” situation regardless of the outcome, a source close to the campaign team told ABC News.
The campaign's thinking is if Trump refuses, he’s a “coward” and the last thing Americans remember is Harris’s strong debate against Trump; but if Trump agrees to another debate, then Harris will perform strongly again, according to the source.
In fact, the Vice President may even prefer not having another debate so that she doesn’t have to take time off the trail to debate prep, the source added. Harris takes her preparation extremely seriously, and another debate would remove her from campaigning during these critical days before the election, according to the source.
Harris’s campaign is entering a more intense phase, adding that she will be doing more interviews, but mostly with local news and influencers, according to campaign sources.
One of those interviews was withABC Philadelphia station WPVIFriday evening, which marked the vice president's first solo interview since she secured the nomination.
WPVI anchor Brian Taff asked questions on several topics, starting with the economy, pressing Harris for specifics about her “opportunity economy” proposals that were rolled out in North Carolina last month and which she emphasized during the debate on Tuesday.
Harris didn’t offer any new details about her plan, instead highlighting existing ideas about providing tax deductions to create small businesses, providing tax credits to private sector home builders to address housing needs, and offering down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers
When pressed on how she would differ from Joe Biden as president, Harris said, “Well, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. And, you know, I offer a new generation of leadership.”
Taff noted the previously little-known fact thatHarris is a gun owner,which she brought up in Tuesday's debate, and asked her about her stance on gun ownership.
Harris said she’s not going to be taking Americans’ guns away from them, but that she backs gun safety laws.
“I support the Second Amendment, and I support reasonable gun safety laws. And so I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the Second Amendment. and your right to own a gun. to also say we need an assault weapons ban," she said.
“They're literally tools of war,” Harris continued. “I say we need universal background checks. The majority of NRA members support that. Why? Because it's just reasonable. You just might want to know.”
Taff asked the vice president how she would appeal to voters who are still undecided, or who "share [Trump's] values, but are open to something else?"
"I, based on experience, and a lived experience, know in my heart, I know in my soul, I know, that the vast majority of us as Americans have so much more in common than what separates us," Harris replied. "And I also believe that I am accurate in knowing that most Americans want a leader that brings us together as Americans and not someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other."
Harris also noted that several major Republicans have endorsed her candidacy, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, and emphasized her focus on creating a large tent, arguing that Trump’s approach has made people more willing to come together, even if they don’t always agree.
“I think people are more willing now, in light of the the hate and division that we see coming out of Donald Trump, to say, hey, let's let's put country first. And I think that just makes us stronger and more healthy as a country," Harris said. "To say, look, we can all debate our differences around, you know, various policies, but let's stop with the division. Like, enough of that. Let's bring everybody together."
That message of cross-party unity was on display at a rally later in the evening at the McHale Athletic Center at Wilkes University, where thousands gathered to hear the vice president.
Harris was introduced by Mary-Grace Vadalla, who identified herself as a lifelong Republican and shared the story of her mom voting for Trump in 2016 before dying of COVID-19 during the pandemic, for which Vadalla said she blamed Trump.
Harris led with what she said was her prosecutorial record of her taking on elder abuse, workers wrongly deprived of wages, the housing foreclosure crisis, and “transnational criminal organizations like the Sinaloa cartel that traffic in drugs and threaten the safety of our communities.”
“I know these cartels firsthand, and as president, I will make sure we prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law for pushing poison, like fentanyl, on our children,” Harris said
She then took aim at Trump and brought up Tuesday's debate, criticizing him for his remark during the face-off in which he said he had "concepts" of a plan to improve healthcare.
"The same tired playbook we heard for years with no plan,” Harris said. “No plan on how he would address the needs of the American people. Well, folks, it's time to turn the page. Turn the page. We’re not going back. We’re not going back."
