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In her latest move, which turns out to be meant to upset Donald Trump, Kamala Harris will host an event at the same Milwaukee stadium where she accepted the Republican nomination.
By Nicolás Nehamas
Report of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday night at the same basketball arena where former President Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican nomination just a month ago, at a time when his party’s idea was heading toward victory over an unfortunate president. Biden.
Harris’s choice of venue is the latest in a series of competing moves that appear designed to draw the ire of Trump’s notorious hide.
The length of the crowd is one of the former president’s biggest reliable problems. Since 2016, when his mass demonstrations foreshadowed his unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton, Trump has been obsessed with how many other people come to hear him speak and how many come to hear his opponents.
If Harris manages to fill the roughly 18,000 seats on the Fiserv Forum, it could provoke another angry reaction from Trump. In the past, I have falsely accused Harris’s crusade of synthetic intelligence to generate fake photographs of his crowd at a rally in Detroit. And he also claimed, without evidence, that his rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, drew more people than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s “I Have a Dream” speech, drawing more attention to his role in the attack on the Capitol that took place later that day.
Harris has reshaped the race since replacing Biden at the most reasonable price last month, raising many millions of dollars, generating a wave of enthusiasm among the Democratic base and narrowing the gap, even taking the lead in opposition to Trump in many polls in battleground states, and Wisconsin joins.
“Donald Trump is possibly the thinnest wearer to ever run for president,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa. “So it’s pretty easy to engage and get the message across. “
Harris’ crusader declined to comment. Trump’s crusader responded to requests for comment.
Some of the Democrats’ antagonism lacked subtlety.
On Sunday night, the day before the Democratic conference in Chicago, Democratic National Committee agents projected a series of insulting messages onto a skyscraper owned by Mr. Trump in downtown Chicago.
One of the messages read “Trump-Vance: ‘Strange as hell,'” an echo of a Democratic attack on Trump and his running mate, Sen. J. D. Vance of Ohio. Another spoke of the “2025 HQ Project,” a reference to the right-wing playbook for reforming the federal government that Trump has tried to distance himself from.
And this month, at a rally in Las Vegas, Harris called for getting rid of federal tipping taxes for hotel and service workers. Trump made a similar proposal at a rally in the city earlier this summer.
The former president responded angrily to Harris’ proposal, writing in Truth Social that she had “copied” his.
“It’s a TRUMP concept,” he said. She has no concepts, she can only borrow them from me. “
Neil Vigdor contributed reporting.
Nicholas Nehamas is a Times political reporter on President Biden’s re-election campaign. More information about Nicolás Nehamas
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