The Harris campaign hijacks the Republicans’ core message

FFrom Kamala Harris' choice of a Beyoncé anthem as her entrance song to the core message of her prime-time speeches, one word emerged as the Democrats' leitmotif in Chicago: freedom.

Oprah Winfrey, speaking at a convention for the first time, said she wanted to talk about “what matters most to you, to me, to all of us Americans – freedom,” and Amanda Gorman, the prodigal poet, introduced a new work in which she declared, “We all love freedom, but it is love that sets us all free.”

In her keynote speech, Harris made it clear that “many fundamental freedoms are at stake” in the US elections in November.

Amanda Gorman, the national youth poet laureate, read one of her poems on the theme of freedom on the third day of the Democratic National Convention

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There is no greater ideal for a country founded by revolution than “the blessings of