Tonight, after weeks of celebrity appearances, get out the vote appeals and more than 50 million early votes already cast, and with just seven days to go until the polls close for good on the

2024 election. All lies are on Washington DC where Kamala Harris will make her

closing argument.

Good evening, everyone.

We begin the readout tonight live in Washington,

where Vice President Harris will very shortly

give a major speech, perhaps the most important of her career

billed as her closing argument in the 2024 election in a very pointed location.

I think it's fair to say that no one knows more about

closing arguments than Carmela Harris. Remember, before she was a Democratic

presidential nominee, before she was vice president and a US senator and

California attorney general. She was a prosecutor. It was how she became a rising star in

democratic politics.

When you look at her bio, her tenure as a prosecutor is what stands out.

It's what she emphasizes when she says her only client in her early career was the people.

And thanks to the show Law and Order,

we know some things about how the scales of justice balance

and teeter in prosecutor's hands. The legal drama with its iconic opening title and sequence and 20 seasons worth of content has shown millions of

Americans how prosecutors go about making deals and plea bargains, the

preparation of witnesses and evidence and perhaps most dramatically

how they land their closing arguments when representing the people.

When you prosecute a case generally what you do is make your opening argument

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