Ivanka Trump, Kamala Harris Make Appeals On Campaign Trail
FRANKLIN - Ivanka Trump swooped into Wisconsin Tuesday to laud her father's policies and rally the Republican base while Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris celebrated her 56th birthday with a virtual campaign appearance aimed at bringing out voters in Milwaukee.
Speaking to about 80 supporters at the Polish Center of Wisconsin, Trump sought to make the case for President Donald Trump's reelection in a state that produced his pathway to the White House four years ago.
From cutting taxes and slashing regulations to recent Middle East peace deals, she said the Trump administration was putting together a successful first term.
And she defended the Trump administration's policies fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
"The Republican Party under President Trump is the party of safe reopening," she said. "And we have to reopen."
During a conversation with Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp, Trump fielded questions on a range of topics, from her father's second-term priorities to her favorite ice cream - for the record chocolate chip cookie dough.
"It's a bit of a love story, this politics thing," she said about her family's entry into the political world.
"At the end of the day we do it for the same reason he does it, we love this country, we love the people of this country," she said.
She said the administration has worked quickly on therapeutics to combat COVID-19 while also "streamlining a highly bureaucratic process to deliver on a vaccine."
And she praised the passage of "a $4 trillion relief package to make sure that our small businesses are going to stay in operation."
Among the second-term goals of the Trump administration, she said, is bringing back 10 million jobs during the next 10 months.
"There is so much that he wants to do and he's deeply passionate about delivering that," she said. "We're all really excited for those policies to really take root."
Harris made it clear how important Wisconsin is to the fortunes for the Democratic ticket, led by Joe Biden.
"Wisconsin, you're the key," she said. "Milwaukee, we need you."
The U.S. senator from California wasted little time in harshly criticizing Trump and his administration over their policies on the coronavirus pandemic.
"It is more than fair to say that Donald Trump has exhibited a reckless disregard for human life," Harris said. "And there's just no denying that.
"And again, when we're looking at the numbers who have been on unemployment, the numbers who have been impacted by COVID."
On COVID-19, Harris charged that Trump and his administration "knew what was going on. They knew it could hurt people. They've had the information since January. They covered it up. They gave people no indication of how serious it was. They didn't give families enough time to make decisions on how they would live their lives, how they would protect their families."
She said Biden has a plan to contain COVID.
"The thing about Joe is he has a deep understanding of how our government works," she said. "He has an understanding of what it means to manage a crisis. He dealt with these crises in the past, whether it be the Great Recession when he pushed through the recovery act, or what he did to work on containing Ebola."
Biden, who has led in Wisconsin polls, said in an interview with WISN's Adrienne Pedersen that he isn't taking Wisconsin for granted.
"I've worked really hard to try to earn the votes of the folks in Wisconsin," he said. "I've been there a number of times. ... If you like what you see, help me out. If not, vote for the other person."
Alison Dirr of the Journal Sentinel contributed.
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