MILWAUKEE — A crowd of thousands of fired-up Democrats chanted “Lock him up!” Tuesday at Vice President Kamala Harris’ first rally as the party’s presidential candidate as Harris leaned into her past as a “prosecutor” while bashing Donald Trump.
“I was elected attorney general of the state of California and I was a courtroom prosecutor before then. And in those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris, 59, said to wild applause.
The vice president paused as chants of “lock him up!” broke out — without addressing them
Although the official audio feed from the campaign showed rally-goers also chanted “Kam-a-la,” on-the-ground footage showed large parts of the crowd chanted “lock him up” about Trump.
The competing chants of matching syllables punctuated the otherwise on-message rally as Harris vowed to restore abortion rights and to “win” on Nov. 5 despite her last-minute elevation to the top slot.
The Harris campaign said more than 3,000 people attended the indoor rally in Milwaukee — with the hosting school’s gymnasium packed in a reflection of enthusiasm among Democrats, who rarely packed Biden’s events in large numbers.
Wisconsin Democratic chairman Ben Wikler told The Post ““I’m so excited and bursting with energy.”
“If you’d asked me six weeks ago what the biggest challenged is in this campaign is that voters… are not tuning in,” he said. “All of that is now out the window: this is now one of the most fascinating and exciting presidential elections in modern history.”
Harris walked on stage and off to Beyonce’s “Freedom” — her new campaign song.
