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In her latest move, which seems designed to put Donald Trump in the spotlight, Kamala Harris will host an event at the same Milwaukee stadium where she accepted the Republican nomination.
By Nicolás Nehamas
Report from 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’ location selection is the latest in a series of competing measures that appear designed to elicit the ire of Harris’s notorious Trump.
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 nearly 18,000 seats on the Fiserv Forum, it could provoke some other angry reaction from Trump. In the past, he has falsely accused Harris’ campaign of using 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, which drew 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 arguably the thinnest wearer to ever run for president,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa. “So it’s pretty easy to get the message across and across. “
Harris’ crusader declined to comment. Trump’s crusade responded to requests for comment.
Some of the Democrats’ antagonism lacked subtlety.
On Sunday night, the eve of the Democratic conference in Chicago, Democratic National Committee operatives projected a series of insulting messages onto a Trump-owned skyscraper in downtown Chicago.
One post read “Trump-Vance: ‘Weird as hell,'” an echo of a Democratic attack on Trump and his running mate, Sen. J. D. Vance of Ohio. Another spoke of “Project 2025 HQ,” a reference to the right-wing playbook for reforming the federal government that Trump sought to highlight.
And this month, at a rally in Las Vegas, Harris called for getting rid of federal tip taxes for hospitality and service workers. Trump made a similar proposal at a rally in the city earlier this summer.
The former president responded angrily to Ms. Harris’s proposal, writing on 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. Learn more about Nicolas Nehamas
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