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Content Warning: This section of the guide features depictions of violence, child sexual abuse, hate speech, racism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant bias, and gender and anti-LGBT discrimination.
Chapter 72 Summary: “October 23: 13 Days to the Election”
Harris held a town hall on CNN with undecided voters. In the first question, Anderson Cooper mentioned that Harris had quoted others who called Donald Trump “a fascist,” and he asked if she herself believed that’s what he was. Harris answered in the affirmative and added that she thought it best to “believe […] the people who know him best on this subject,” referring to the fact that Trump’s former chief of staff had talked about how “Trump had often praised Hitler” (247). She knows she could have given a stronger, clearer answer. When the event ended, Harris walked toward to audience to chat with anyone who hadn’t had the chance to ask their question.
Chapter 73 Summary: “October 25: 11 Days to the Election”
Harris’s mother dedicated her life to finding a cure for breast cancer. She taught Harris the value and strength of the female body, and Harris went on to defend women and girls who were victims of rape and assault as a prosecutor. She argues that telling a woman who has suffered “a violation of her body that she has no say in what happens to her body next is immoral” (250-51). That day, Harris held a rally in Texas, where laws governing reproductive rights and abortion access had become so restrictive after the fall of Roe v.
