VP hopeful Kamala Harris, in historic Fort Worth stop, calls on Black Texans to vote
FORT WORTH -- Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a historical campaign stop Friday in Fort Worth, speaking to a mostly Black crowd in a field outside a church about the importance of “honoring our ancestors” by voting in Tuesday’s election.
The Democratic senator from California, representing herself and presidential hopeful Joe Biden in a last-minute push to win Texas over the Republicans, arrived just before noon Friday at Meacham Airport in a twin-engine Bombardier business jet.
She then rode in a motorcade to First St. John Baptist Church in southeast Fort Worth, where an excited group of about 300 people waited to greet her, sitting in lawn chairs that were spread 8 to 12 feet apart for social distancing. The location of the gathering in the Mitchell Boulevard neighborhood had not been publicized prior to the event, to prevent overcrowding, and many of the attendees were quietly invited by the Democratic Party.
In a speech that lasted nearly 30 minutes under a warm autumn sun, Harris, wearing a blue blazer and athletic shoes, accused President Trump and other Republicans of trying to suppress the vote of people of color, using tactics such as questioning the credibility of voting by mail.
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