The campaign event in Milwaukee comes less than a week after Republicans gathered downtown for their own party convention – where former President Donald Trump officially accepted the GOP nomination and selected his running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance.
Trump has already ramped up verbal attacks on Harris on social media, criticizing her intelligence and mannerisms. The Trump campaign is also attempting to link Harris to Biden’s record on immigration and rising prices — key parts of Republican messaging to voters.
But on Tuesday in Milwaukee, the vice president didn’t shy away from going on the offensive against the former president. Referencing her work as a prosecutor before entering elected office, she likened Trump’s legal woes to cases she worked on.
“I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said. “So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Harris also reflected on the momentum her campaign has had since launching, highlighting their record-breaking grassroots fundraising. In just over one day after she announced, her campaign recorded raising $100 million.
“Because we are a people-powered campaign,” she said. “That is how you know we will be a people-first presidency.”
Broadly ticking through her policy platform, Harris argued her campaign offers a vision of the future of the country, stressing the need for affordable health care, child care and paid family leave. She also raised issues she’s repeatedly championed throughout Biden’s presidency, including curbing gun violence and safeguarding reproductive access.
“We have to remember the shoulders on which we stand — generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom. And now, Wisconsin, the baton is in our hands,” Harris said.
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