Dem presidential nominee Kamala Harris vowed at a campaign rally in Milwaukee Tuesday night that GOP rival Donald Trump will “face a consequence” in November for his role in overturning Roe v. Wade
Speaking at the Fiserv Forum, where the RNC was held, Harris said Trump hand-selected three Supreme Court justices, knowing they would vote to overturn the 1973 decision that had guaranteed the right to an abortion. She also knocked Trump for saying in a CBS interview earlier this week that he had no regrets about his role in the ruling being overturned, adding: “I did something that most people felt was undoable.”
“Bad behavior should result in a consequence,” Harris said. “We will make sure he does face a consequence, and that will be at the ballot in November.”
Harris added: “I promise you, when I am president of the United States, and Congress passes a bill to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade, I will proudly sign it into law.”
Harris spoke to a packed Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee shortly after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago symbolically cast delegates for her candidacy. The party did a virtual roll call before the convention to formally nominate Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The vice president’s rally included a watch party as each state cast their delegates for her.
As the DJ played House of Pain’s “Jump Around” — a song played regularly at Wisconsin Badgers home games — Dem Gov. Tony Evers stumbled in formally announcing the state’s delegate count for Kamala Harris.
He introduced Wisconsin as the home of the Wisconsin’s sport teams, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan.
“I’m here because I’m jazzed as hell to announce that Wisconsin casts one present and 94 votes for …” Evers said before trailing off and saying, “Oh, where are we?”
It took Evers several attempts to get back on track. At one point, he apologized to DNC Secretary Jason Rae, a Wisconsin native, promising, “I’ll get there, Jason, I’ll get there.”
Evers then announced 94 votes for “former Wisconsinite, vice president and our next president of the United States, Kamala Harris.”
As the roll call wrapped up and Rae announced Harris as the party’s nominee, the vice president took the stage in Milwaukee with Walz at her side as she thanked delegates at the convention in Chicago for their support.
Harris used the Wisconsin state motto “Forward” to describe her own priorities in office.
“Ours is a fight for the future, and it is a fight for freedom,” Harris said. “Like the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government telling her what to do.”
Ahead of Harris’ rally, RNC Chair Michael Whatley accused Harris of trying to “save face in Wisconsin during the chaotic DNC.”
It was Harris’ seventh visit to Wisconsin this year and third since announcing her presidential campaign. She attended a rally in Eau Claire Aug. 8 and a rally in West Allis right after her campaign launched.
“While Americans watch businesses board up and the DNC erupt in chaos, Harris is trying to lie about her dangerously liberal record and save face with Wisconsin voters,” Whatley said. “Fortunately, Wisconsinites won’t be fooled by the Democrats again—they know that America was better off under President Trump.”
Ahead of the roll call watch party, Walz warmed up the Milwaukee crowd, saying Republicans would seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, cut Social Security and Medicare, and ban abortion across the country.
He also criticized Project 2025, and said it would be a “playbook” for the Trump administration. Project 2025 is a conservative political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation that would consolidate Trump’s executive power if he is elected.
“And JD Vance, he writes the foreword for the architect of the project 2025,” Walz said.
Walz added, “On October 1, we’re going to have a little talk, he and I, on the same stage.”
Walz also alluded to Republicans formally nominating Trump as their presidential nominee a month ago in the same building that he and Harris addressed supporters.
“We not only have massive energy at our convention, we got a hell of a lot more energy where they had their convention,” Walz said. “Right here.”
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