Vice President Harris made her last push for Wisconsin earlier than Election Day, joined by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) on a three-stop swing by the important thing battleground state.
“Wisconsin, truly, we need everyone to vote here. You, Wisconsin, are going to make the difference in this election. You will make the difference,” Harris mentioned at a Friday night rally in Little Chute.
The group on the rally, holding “vote” and “when we vote, we win” indicators chanted “we will win.”
“We are the type of people that when you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for,” Harris mentioned.
The vp, in arguing that she believes within the promise of America, known as herself “a child of the civil rights movement.”
“My parents took me to the marches when I was in a stroller. And there were people there from every walk of life who came together to fight for freedom and for opportunity,” she mentioned. “The promise of America is all around us. It is in the young leaders who are voting for the very first time. Where are you? Oh, I love Gen-Z! I really do.”
She additionally requested the gang who had already voted early, which was met with loud cheers on the rally.
“Oh wow. Oh my goodness, that’s great, thank you!” Harris mentioned. “For anyone who’s not yet voted, no judgement, but please take a moment now and just think about what your plan will be for when and where you will vote.”
Baldwin is in a detailed race towards Republican Eric Hovde that Democrats are with the intention to maintain onto the higher chamber. The senator has a slim lead over Hovde, polling at 48.4 p.c in comparison with his 47.9 p.c, in response to a polling combination from Choice Desk HQ/The Hill.
“Having Kamala back in the state again makes it clear that this campaign knows that the path to the presidency and control of the United States Senate runs directly through our state because we are the battleground state in this election,” Baldwin mentioned.
Harris additionally visited Wisconsin on Wednesday, on the primary day of taking her closing message to the battleground states after her speech on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., the night time earlier than.
“The stakes could not be higher for our reproductive freedoms, for our health care, for our economy. We have the choice to embrace our state motto, which is ‘forward,’ or let Eric Hovde take us backward. And you know what, we’re not going back,” Baldwin mentioned.
Harris later known as on voters to “send her back to the United States Senate,” calling Baldwin a detailed good friend.
Earlier within the day, Harris and Baldwin visited with staff at an IBEW union corridor in Janesville. There, she promoted the thought of retooling current factories, saying that staff within the state don’t wish to have to depart their cities to discover a job.
“We here know, Donald Trump is no friend to labor,” she mentioned. “He is an existential threat to America’s labor movement.”
Harris is doubling down on her visits to the so-called “blue wall.” A Marist Ballot launched on Friday confirmed Harris barely forward within the three states, main Trump by 3 factors in Michigan, and a pair of factors in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Former President Trump has a 0.4 share level lead in Wisconsin going into the weekend, in response to Choice Desk HQ/ The Hill’s combination polling.
