Kamala Harris promised Tuesday to “put country above party and self” in the closing argument of her presidential campaign, delivered from the same site where Donald Trump fomented the Capitol insurrection, in the hopes that it offers a stark visualization of the choice voters face.

One week out from Election Day, the vice president used her address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House to pledge to Americans that she will work to improve their lives while arguing that her Republican opponent is only in it for himself. She sought to sharpen that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the place where Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, inspired a crowd to march to the Capitol and unsuccessfully try to halt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

With time running out and the race tight, Harris and Trump have both sought big moments to try to shift momentum their way.

“It’s a place that certainly we believe helps crystalize the choice in this election,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said of the setting, calling it “a stark visualization of probably the most infamous example of Donald Trump and how he’s used his power for bad.”

Campaign aides stressed that Harris did not want to deliver a treatise on democracy — a staple of President Joe Biden’s own attempts to draw a contrast with Trump — or spend too much time focusing directly on the shocking imagery of that day. Harris aides said the vice president aimd to make a broader case for why voters should reject Trump and consider what she offers.

Her campaign hoped to draw a massive crowd to Washington for the event. But, more critically, her campaign hoped the setting will help catch the attention of battleground state voters who remain on the fence about whom to vote for — or whether to vote at all.

The address comes days after Harris traveled to Texas, a reliably Republican state, to appear with megastar Beyoncé and emphasize the consequences for women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That, too, was a speech meant to register with voters far away in the battleground states.

The vice president’s latest address had been in the works for weeks. But aides said they hoped her message would land with more impact after Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York, where speakers hurled insults. Harris said the event “highlighted the point that I’ve been making throughout this campaign.”

“He is focused and actually fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country,” she said.

Harris was expected to use her speech to lay out a pragmatic and forward-looking plan for the country, including reminding voters about her economic proposals and pledging to work for access to reproductive care, including abortion.

Also central to her message: positioning herself as a “new generation” of leader after Trump and even her current boss, Biden. She’s going to be “talking about what her new generation of leadership really means and centering that around the American people and what they care about,” O’Malley Dillon said.

As for Trump, Harris said Monday, “People are literally ready to turn the page. They’re tired of it.”

Ahead of Harris’ speech, Trump used remarks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Tuesday morning to accuse Harris of closing with a message that doesn’t address everyday Americans’ day-to-day struggles and kitchen-table concerns.

He said Harris keeps “talking about Hitler, and Nazis, because her record’s horrible,” a reference to Harris amplifying the warnings from his former chief of staff that Trump spoke admiringly of the Nazi leader while in office.

Harris’ aides, many of whom also advised Biden’s campaign before he dropped out, still believe that centering the race on who Trump is and how she’s different will be their strongest message for voters.

“She’s already made her case, she’s presented the evidence. She’s offering up a summation tonight, and she has faith in the wisdom of the jury,” campaign communications director Michael Tyler said.

Biden told reporters Tuesday that he will not attend Harris’ speech because the event is “for her,” but he planned to watch it on television.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said it was important for battleground voters to be reminded of the consequences of their choice this fall and for Harris “to really drive home the stakes of this election and the clear contrast in the race.”

He said Harris had the stronger argument on economic policies, reproductive freedom and the matter of chaos vs. order, adding that she “has a vision that’s going to bring more order and more hopefulness and more joy.”

Ruth Chiari, 78, of Charlottesville, Virginia, was attending the rally with her husband to “support democracy.”

“I think everybody understands what’s on the ballot,” she said as she waited in line near the Treasury building to enter the event. “We’re either going to have an autocrat or freedom.”

Harris was spending the day ahead of her speech taping television interviews airing in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and Spanish language radio in Pennsylvania, her campaign said.