Vice President Kamala Harris directed the audience and medical personnel during a dramatic moment during a rally when an attendee experienced a medical crisis during her speech.
Day two of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago started Monday night. They continued on Tuesday with speeches from former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and a host of other figures.
During the same period, Harris and his running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, conducted a rally at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
When she was addressing the crowd, members of the audience flagged Harris of a medical emergency as the speech neared its conclusion.
Harris directed the medical personnel to the person in the crowd and then used the event to push her political message:
And that is how we fulfilled the promise of America. The promise of America. And it is that promise of America–. We need a medical assistant here. Okay. We need a nurse or we need a medic here, please. Let’s just make a– let’s make a path. Let’s make a path. If y’all don’t mind, just let’s make a path to right here. Let’s just create a path. Right here.
Let’s create a path, guys, and thanks for looking out each other. Look out for each other. But let’s let’s create a path for the medics. Okay. Okay. Okay. We’re going to be okay. We’re going to be okay.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
All right. This is who we are, right? This is what we’re about. Looking out for each other. The thing–. We care about each other.
(CHEERS).
You know, it’s about truly understanding what love thy neighbor means. It’s about, in the face of a perfect stranger, seeing a neighbor, understanding what that love of each other means. It’s a big difference between what we’re talking about and what’s on the other side.
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A person has a medicinal emergency during Kamala Harris’ speech and she calls for a medic pic.twitter.com/UuxIrsLQTa
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Harris has been handed bad news from three different polls showing that she is losing support.
Two of the polls put her behind former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a key swing state, and a third put her behind the Republican presidential candidate across the board.
Two different polls of potential Pennsylvania voters, one by Cygnal and one by Emerson College, both gave Trump a one-point lead in the key state with 19 Electoral College votes. A separate poll from the Napolitan News Service gave the former president a one-point lead across the country.
After Joe Biden quit the race and gave Harris his support on July 21, Harris quickly became the Democratic Party’s front-runner for the presidency. At first, this gave Democrats a clear poll boost. In more than a dozen national polls, Harris did better than Trump, and she became the favorite to win in November with many of the biggest bookies.
“Between August 12 and 14, RMG Research polled 2,708 likely voters across the United States for Napolitan News Service, which found Trump leading Harris by 46 percent to 45 percent. When undecided voters leaning one way were included, Trump’s margin extended to 49 percent against 47 percent, compared to the last RMG poll a week ago, which put both candidates on 49 percent,” Newsweek reported.
“A Cygnal poll of 800 likely voters in Pennsylvania, conducted on August 14-15, found 44 percent would back Trump in a presidential contest versus 43 percent for Harris and 5 percent for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump increased his polling by 2 points since the last Cygnal survey in July, while Kennedy saw his support fall by 4 points,” the outlet added.
In Pennsylvania, on August 13 and 14, Emerson College polled 1,000 potential voters for RealClearPolitics.
It showed that Trump had a one-point lead over Harris, with 49% of the vote to 49% for Harris. This went up to 51% vs. 49% when people who aren’t sure but lean toward one candidate were added to that candidate’s pool.
When Kennedy was taken into account, Harris and Trump were tied with 47% of the vote, while the independent candidate had 3%.
According to the poll, voters under 40 were more likely to support Harris than Trump (61% to 36%). However, Trump had a bigger lead among voters 50 to 69 (57%) than among voters of any other age.
When it came to Protestant voters, Trump was ahead 58% to 40%, and when it came to Catholic voters, Trump was ahead 60% to 39%. Eighty-four percent of atheist and agnostic voters chose Harris over thirteen percent, and 56 percent chose Harris over 39 percent of people who didn’t say what religion they followed.
Separately, a new survey for DailyMail.com shows that Trump is still on pace to become the 47th president, leading the vice president by two points.
“Our survey of 1001 likely voters found that 43 percent would vote for Trump if the election were tomorrow, compared with 41 percent who would vote for Harris,” the outlet reported, citing the polling results.
