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The 23 must-see lines from Kamala Harris’ Ellipse speech
So What, Chris Cillizza

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered what her campaign billed as a closing argument for the 2024 campaign at the Ellipse in Washington, DC Tuesday night.

The location was intentional. On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump spoke to the “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse. Many of the attendees of that speech then marched to the U.S. Capitol and broke in — trying to stop the counting of electoral votes that made Joe Biden president.

I went line by line through the transcript of Harris’ speech — and pulled out the lines you need to see. They’re below.
8. “And look, I’ll be honest with you, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes.”

‘It would hurt everyone’: American companies brace for Trump’s radical tariff plans

Andrew Ross Sorkin, Co-Anchor of “Squawk Box,” on CNBC and Steph Rhule, Anchor of “The 11th Hour” join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the impact that Donald Trump’s economic plan which plans to rely heavily on tariffs which economic experts and businesses leaders say will hurt American consumers.
Nicole Wallace, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Steph Rhule, MSNBC

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
Nilay Patel
An endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris.

In many ways, the ecstatic reaction to Harris is simply a reflection of the fact that she is so clearly trying. She is trying to govern America the way it’s designed to be governed, with consensus and conversation and effort. With data and accountability, ideas and persuasion. Legislatures and courts are not deterministic systems with predictable outputs based on a set of inputs — you have to guide the process of lawmaking all the way to the outcomes, over and over again, each time, and Harris seems not only aware of that reality but energized by it. More than anything, that is the change a Harris administration will bring to a country exhausted by decades of fights about whether government can or should do anything at all.

It is time to stop denying the essential nature of the problems America faces. It is time to insist that we use the power of our democracy the way it’s intended to be used. And it is far past time to move beyond Donald Trump.

A vote for Harris is a vote for the future. It is a vote for solving collective action problems. It is a vote for working together, instead of tearing our world to shreds.

Nvidia will Accelerate India’s AI Capabilities and Workforce,
Michael Spencer
India’s youth and AI skills will supercharge its economic growth in the decade ahead 2025 to 2035.

I am impressed with Nvidia’s conduct since not just entering the BigTech “magnificent seven” but outpacing them in market cap and revenue growth. At the time of writing Nvidia’s market cap is 3.46 Trillion. They report earnings on November 20th.

With the faltering of China’s economy, the state-driven curtailing of their own BigTech firms and an unprecedented exodus of foreign investors after poor diplomatic leadership by China, India seems inevitably the heir apparent.

The years ahead and the AI movement itself might be very telling for India’s future. The geopolitics of tech today is like nothing we have seen in recent memory. India needs to earn a bigger place on the world stage.