Harris Stresses Unity as Trump Attacks Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Remark

With six days left in the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump hopscotched the battleground states on Wednesday as they sought to wring support from an electorate already in the full throes of early voting.

Both candidates began their day with rallies in North Carolina and plan to end it with events in Wisconsin, with Ms. Harris adding a stop in between in Pennsylvania, a signal about which states remain most competitive as Election Day nears.

While Ms. Harris offered a message of unity and pledged to be “a president for all Americans,” Mr. Trump sought to amplify a muddled remark from President Biden in which he appeared to call Mr. Trump’s supporters “garbage.”

Before a crowd of thousands packed into a rather pungent agricultural exposition center in Harrisburg, Pa., Ms. Harris offered herself as a president who would recruit competing voices into her White House and not, as Mr. Trump has done, cast them as the nation’s enemies.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy from within,” she said. “He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at the table.”

White House aides suggested Mr. Biden’s remark was a verbal slip from the octogenarian president. Mr. Trump and his allies pounced, seeing an opening to capitalize on their supporters’ outrage and to tie Ms. Harris with Mr. Biden.