Milwaukee City Wire

As Kamala Harris heads to Milwaukee to campaign on Labor Day, here are three critical questions for her that she should be asked.

Why did she and Joe Biden snub Wisconsin before? What changed?

Just 3 weeks ago, when Senator Harris was nominated for the Democratic Party as their Vice-Presidential standard bearer, neither she nor Joe Biden traveled to the official convention site in Milwaukee to accept the honor. In contrast, President Trump did travel to RNC host site Charlotte to accept his nomination from Republican delegates.

Biden and Harris bizarrely claimed that the “science” would not allow them to travel. The claim was dubious, of course, especially given that they can effectively travel privately in a bubble with constant government protective details. Then suddenly, Biden emerged from his basement bunker, and started to travel.

After Joe’s visit last week, now Kamala arrives in the Badger state. But, nothing regarding the “science” changed. There are no major new developments regarding the virus, nor have there been changes to safety protocols in Wisconsin or elsewhere.

So, did the science change…or, did the political science change?

After all, the RealClear Politics average of battleground state polls shows that Biden’s lead has been cut in half since late July, to only 3% now.

The most recent Trafalgar Group poll shows Trump with a 1% lead in Wisconsin.

It sure seems that the recent momentum of President Trump and our campaign finally smoked Joe out of his hideout.

Why should Wisconsin return backward to economic globalism?

Joe Biden has spent nearly a half century in the Washington swamp, and he’s been a true Delaware senator, representing the interests of giant multinational corporations and the prerogatives of foreign governments, to the detriment of American workers, especially heartland industrial workers in places like Wisconsin.

In fact, Biden was a foremost proponent of the disastrous NAFTA agreement in 1994. From the ratification of NAFTA until President Trump’s election, Wisconsin lost a staggering 66,100 manufacturing jobs. Thankfully, President Trump renegotiated that terrible trade deal and replaced it with the USMCA pact which prioritizes American workers.

Joe Biden was also the best friend the tyrants of Beijing could ever ask for in Washington. As senator and as vice-president, he aggressively pushed China’s inclusion into the World Trade Organization and enabled the China Communist Party’s systematic abuse of American workers through trade practices that were predatory, not reciprocal, and even outright criminal.

The state of Wisconsin lost 78,700 jobs due to the disastrous trade structures with China that Biden facilitated. While the CCP plundered American technology and destroyed American manufacturing jobs, Joe Biden had the gall to praise China, saying in 2011 that “a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China, but for America.” As then-Vice President Biden uttered that Pollyanna nonsense to his Davos-credentialed CEO fanboys, America’s industrial heartland endured devastation. Biden’s own family prospered though, as his wayward son Hunter traveled with his father on an official vice-presidential visit to China aboard Air Force Two.

After meetings with officials of the Chinese regime, Hunter secured a massive $1.5 billion investment in his private equity fund, even though the younger Biden had no track record in that industry.

Just recently, Joe Biden promised to remove the tariffs that President Trump imposed on Chinese goods, without requiring any accommodation on the part of Beijing.

Biden and Harris in the White House would send America back to globalism, and back to a position of economic supplication to China.

Why does Senator Harris assail the Knights of Columbus? Is she anti-Catholic?

When federal judge Brian Buescher was scrutinized for confirmation before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Harris harshly questioned his membership in the Knights of Columbus. The Knights is the largest fraternal Catholic organization in the world and performs millions of hours of volunteer service across America, for Catholics and for people of no faith at all. The brotherhood helps its members live their faith authentically, as servants, husbands, and fathers.

The Knights form a bedrock constituency of parishes all over Wisconsin. Yet, in questioning Buescher’s membership, she described the Knights as “an all-male society comprised of primarily Catholic men … which opposes a woman’s right to choose.”   Of course, the actual scandal would be if the Knights did not fully accept church teaching on matters as fundamental as the definition of marriage and the beginning of life. After all, Pope Francis, whom many progressives love to selectively cite, recently compared abortion to hiring a “hitman.”

Moreover, questioning Judge Buescher’s membership in a private faith group represents a blatantly illegal tactic, as our Constitution specifically prohibits any religious litmus test for any federal office. Nonetheless, in Kamala Harris’s America, her new McCarthyism asks, “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Knights of Columbus?”

We at the Trump campaign welcome Harris and Biden to the campaign trail. The people deserve to hear from their candidates directly, and all politicians should submit themselves to the scrutiny of the press and to direct feedback from citizens. If the Biden-Harris ticket receives the scrutiny it deserves, the choice for Wisconsinites into November will become clear.

– Steve Cortes is Senior Advisor for Strategy to the Trump Campaign.