Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, her first since announcing her presidential candidacy.
Harris announced her candidacy on Sunday night, shortly after President Biden announced he was ending his reelection campaign. The president subsequently endorsed her.
Harris on Monday secured the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination, but the Democratic National Convention, which will formally select the party’s nominee, is scheduled to take place in Chicago next month.
The Milwaukee rally will mark Harris’ ninth visit to Wisconsin since becoming vice president in 2021 and her fifth visit to the state so far this year, according to her campaign.
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Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, on May 15, 2019. (Getty Images)
“We are honored to welcome Vice President Harris to the state she once called home, Wisconsin, where she will gather an excited following as she announces her candidacy for president,” Breanna Johnson, Wisconsin communications director for the Harris campaign, said in a press release.
According to the Harris campaign, every major Democratic elected leader in Wisconsin has endorsed Harris’ presidential campaign, including Governor Tony Evers, every statewide Democratic official, Senator Tammy Baldwin, Representatives Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan (both state House Democratic leaders), the mayors of Wisconsin’s cities, including Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay, the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and more than 90 percent of Wisconsin’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Johnson said the Democratic Party has launched an organizational campaign in Wisconsin to support Harris’ White House bid, with 48 organizational offices in 43 counties across the state and about 160 full-time staffers already going door-to-door, making phone calls and reaching out to friends and neighbors to urge them to vote for Harris and the Democrats in November’s election.
“We’ll be hosting events across the state this week to build on this success and harness the grassroots energy in support of Kamala Harris that we’re seeing in Milwaukee tomorrow,” Johnson said.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on June 28, 2024. (Bizayev Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Johnson said Harris was prepared to “prosecute” the case against former President Trump, appearing to refer to her experience as a prosecutor, adding, “There’s no better place to highlight this contrast than Milwaukee, Wisconsin.”
Last week, Trump and Republicans including his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, traveled to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where Johnson said the former president highlighted his “Project 2025 agenda, which would ban abortion nationwide, raise taxes on middle-class families, cut Social Security and Medicare and give Trump virtually unlimited power.”
“In Milwaukee, Trump brought out J.D. Vance, an endorsement of his extreme policies, the architect of Trump’s family separation policy, the author of Trump’s Project 2025, and governors who have signed dangerous and extreme anti-abortion laws,” Johnson continued.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the “Women’s Economic Participation in Industries of the Future” conference during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, California on November 16, 2023. (Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Project 2025 is a controversial initiative organized by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and written by a number of conservatives. Former Trump administration official.
The initiative lists right-wing policy proposals if Trump wins the presidential election, including replacing civil servants with Trump supporters, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, cutting funding to Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as medical care, and infusing government with Christian values.
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Trump Distance yourself from leadership Critics have said the plan is authoritarian, Christian nationalist and undermines civil liberties, but he said he knew nothing about it, described parts of it as “totally ridiculous, awful” and “extreme” and described its supporters as “far-right”.
During her visit to Milwaukee, Johnson said she plans to highlight the choice between Trump, “a convicted felon who is holding our country back,” and Harris’ “vision of a bright future where freedoms are protected and all Americans have a fair chance.”
