Kamala Harris dons candidate costume and galvanizes crowd in Wisconsin

Although she has not officially received the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden’s vice-president is already holding rallies in several states and testing her anti-Trump speech.

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Kamala Harris at a rally in Wisconsin on July 23, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN / MIDDLE EAST IMAGES)

Since Joe Biden’s withdrawal, the Democratic Party has almost unanimously rallied around its Vice President Kamala Harris, who entered the presidential race without waiting for her party’s official nomination. A candidate who was greeted with great enthusiasm on Tuesday, July 23, by a few thousand people gathered in a high school gymnasium on the outskirts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Her lectern bore the vice-president’s badge, but it was for the presidency that Kamala Harris was rallying on Tuesday, July 23, in one of the key states of this campaign. “You helped us win in 2020she says, and we will win again”. In front of an electric crowd, invigorated by the turn of events, candidate Harris plays a well-worn refrain: the former prosecutor against the criminal, the middle class against the billionaire and the future against the past, particularly on the question of abortion.

“We will stop Donald Trump’s extremist abortion ban policy because we trust women to make decisions about their bodies.”she says. Twenty minutes of a very offensive speech concluded with a grand finale: “When we fight, we win!”she shouts with the crowd. No more time to hang around: with almost a hundred days to go until the election, Kamala Harris will be in Indiana on Wednesday and in Texas on Thursday, July 25.


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