‘The American People Are Exhausted With His Gaslighting’

 

Kamala Harris Refuses To Let Donald Trump Whitewash Jan. 6

TOPSHOT - US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris arrives for a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 17, 2024. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/A... MORE By David Kurtz

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October 18, 2024 9:56 a.m.

With JD Vance’s claim that Trump won in 2020 and Trump himself calling Jan. 6 a “day of love,” the GOP ticket is doubling down on the Big Lie with three weeks to go before Election Day – and Kamala Harris is having none of it.

In a noticeable shift, Harris has expanded her usual campaign speech to include more direct critiques of Trump’s anti-democratic extremism. Earlier in the week, she pulled in his remarks on “enemies within,” going so far as to begin playing video of his remarks at her own campaign rallies. As the week comes to an end, she’s incorporating into her own speech Trump’s latest remarks minimizing Jan. 6.

“So now, we here, know Jan. 6 was a tragic day. It was a day of terrible violence. There were attacks on law enforcement — 140 law enforcement officers were injured, some were killed. And what did Donald Trump say last night about Jan. 6? He called it a ‘day of love,’” Harris told a rally in Wisconsin Thursday.

In Trump’s remarks earlier this week, he once again referred to the Jan. 6 rioters as “we,” an admission that is sure to pique the interest of Special Counsel Jack Smith: “We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns. And when I say we, these are people that walked down — this was a tiny percentage of the overall, which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows.” Trump’s claim that none of the rioters had guns is a falsity that he often repeats.

For her part, Harris folded Trump’s Jan. 6 lies into her larger “We Are Not Going Back” theme: “The American people are exhausted with his gaslighting — exhausted. … Enough,” Harris said. “We are ready to turn the page.”