Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination, urges Americans to 'fight for this country' – video

US vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris took to the stage on the final day of the Democratic national convention in Chicago, delivering the biggest speech of her political career. With less than three months left before election day - and with polls showing a tight contest against the Republican former president Donald Trump - Harris fired up the Democratic faithful by reflecting on her upbringing and past as a California attorney-general, asking the audience to imagine Trump with no guardrails', and calling on Americans to 'fight for this country we love'

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