UW-L Recreational Eagle Center. The crowd exceeded 3,000, mostly college students. Harris noted that many students on campus will cast their first votes in a presidential election this year.
Harris message: With Trump you’ll lose freedoms
LACROSSE, Wis. – Presidential aspirant Kamala Harris pitched her candidacy to young voters in a packed arena at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. ”It’s about you guys,” she told the cheering crowd. “We know that America is ready for a new way forward. We are ready for a new and optimistic generation of leadership.” Harris urged the young people gathered in the room to be positive and engaged in their future. “We are not going back because we know that this election is about two very different visions — one that is focused on the past, and one that is focused on the future.”
Her Wisconsin strategey
The LaCrosse rally was one of Harris’ three Wisconsin stops for the day. She started in Milwaukee and after LaCrosse flew back across the state to Green Bay. The state is critical for the Harris-Walz ticket in the nip-and-tuck battle with Donald Trump for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. At LaCrosse she was interrupted time and again by thunderous cheers. She paused too for boos a from the crowd gainst Tump whenever she lit into his record as president four years ago and in his current campaign.
Her Trump critique
“It is clear that Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged and will stop at nothing to claim unchecked power for himself,” said Harris. “He will send military after American citizens. He wants to prevent women from making decisions about their own bodies. He wants to threaten fundamental freedoms and rights, like the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, to breathe clean air, to drink clean water and the freedom to love who you love and love openly.”
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Cuban. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban of “Shark Tank” television fame, is traversing Wisconsin with Harris as a warm-up speaker. At UW-L he warned that Trump’s proposed tariffs will, if elected, make him “the grinch who stole Christmas.” Holiday presents will zoom as much as 60%, he said, and so too will the bulk of imported goods. Consumers will be hurt and also Main Street shopkeepers who will be decimated, Cuban said. He noted that small business operators comprise 99.5% of U.S. companies.