Vice President Kamala Harris at a UW-La Crosse rally today charged former President Donald Trump with gaslighting Americans after he referred to the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as a “day of love.”
Trump made the comments while responding to a voter question at a Univision town hall yesterday.
“It was a day of terrible violence. There were attacks on law enforcement, 140 law enforcement officers were injured, some were killed. And what did Donald Trump say last night about Jan. 6? He called it a, quote, a day of love,” Harris said. “But it points out something that everyone here knows — the American people are exhausted with his gaslighting.”
She said Trump is “an unserious man and the consequences of him ever getting his foot back in the Oval Office are brutally serious.” Harris said Trump would give massive tax cuts to billionaires and corporations, cut Social Security and get rid of the $35 cap on insulin costs for seniors, among other things.
Harris also touted her plans to bring down housing costs by providing $25,000 down payment assistance grants for first-time homeowners.
“There was a time that generations of Americans could count on the American dream, but for far too many these days it is just out of reach, so we will deal with the housing supply,” Harris said.
Ahead of Harris’ remarks, billionaire businessman Mark Cuban slammed Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on imports, which economists have said would fall on American consumers.
Cuban repeatedly called the former president “the Grinch” and told the crowd Trump “wants you to have a lousy Christmas.”
“If Donald Trump is elected and he puts these 60% tariffs on Chinese products, they are all going up,” the Shark Tank star said. “All those things you buy are going up — not by 10% or 20% — but by 50 or 60% or more. They’ll be up so much you won’t be able to afford the presents that you want for your family and friends.”
Ahead of the rally in La Crosse, Harris stopped at the UW-Milwaukee campus with Cuban to visit a business class. The stop was closed to the media, and the campaign issued a statement afterward saying she greeted students “and discussed entrepreneurship and economic policy.”
Harris was greeted by protesters at the campus, which had a pro-Palestinian encampment this spring. Some assembled chanted, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.”
After the event, Harris delivered a statement on the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the lead architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Israeli defense officials said today he was killed during an operation in southern Gaza.
Harris said the world is better off now that Sinwar is dead, adding he had “American blood on his hands.”
“This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza, and it must end such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination.”
On a GOP press call today, former governor Scott Walker said he hoped Harris’ visit to a business class at the UW-Milwaukee campus taught her “a thing or two about how high prices have gone up since she and Joe Biden have been in office.”
“We can’t afford four more years of the policies we’ve seen over the last nearly three and a quarter years,” Walker said.
State GOP Chair Brian Schimming said Harris set up three stops in Wisconsin today “on very short notice” because “they know they are slipping.”
He added that Trump and Vance will be back in the state soon.
