During his rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, former President Donald Trump declared that he was running against “something far bigger” than Vice President Kamala Harris.

With just over a week until Election Day, Trump, who currently holds a slight lead over Harris in national and key battleground state polls, emphasized the importance of looking beyond the candidate and confronting what he referred to as the “radical Left machine” and the policies it aims to impose on the U.S.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We are not just running against Kamala — She means nothing. She is purely a vessel — We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s… pic.twitter.com/qBysdNKtSF

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“We are just not running against Kamala — I think a lot of our politicians here tonight know this. She means nothing. She is purely a vessel, that’s all she is,” Trump said, adding later: “We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical Left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.”

That’s not to say Trump didn’t criticize Harris personally. During his remarks in New York City, he mocked her for delivering “word salads,” for not being more transparent about President Joe Biden’s health before he withdrew from the 2024 race this summer, and more.

“On issue after issue, Kamala broke it, but I will fix it,” getting cheers from the crowd.

Still, Trump’s larger point in his speech was that Biden and Harris are “perfect vessels because they’ll never give them a hard time.”

He explained further, “They’ll do whatever they want. I know many of them. It’s just an amorphous group of people. But they’re smart and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them. And when I say the ‘enemy from within,’ the other side goes crazy.”

Trump, who has long decried the “deep state” of bureaucrats and others frustrating his efforts at governance, said leftists “are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, ‘Green New Scam,’ and everything else they are doing. But we’re not going to let it happen any longer.

“We’re going to have the biggest victory in the history of our country on November 5 … We’re going to make America great again,” Trump added at one point.