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07/19/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/18/2024 23:16

STATEMENT: DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Final Night of the RNC Convention Arrow

In response to the final night of the RNC Convention, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:

"This week, convicted felon Donald Trump reminded the American people why they voted him out of office four years ago - because he doesn't care about working families, he only cares about himself. In Trump's Republican Party, there's only space for unquestioning loyalists who will put him above our democracy, above our freedoms, and above working families. That's why Trump chose JD Vance to be his running mate, and it's why Trump's former vice president - who he tried to get to overturn the election - was nowhere to be found this week in Milwaukee.

"Over the past four days, we've seen speakers endorse a far-right, dangerous vision that would see Americans' basic liberties stripped away and replace the rule of law with the rule of Trump. No amount of desperate spin can change how unpopular and out of touch their disastrous plans are for the American people.

"Trump and Vance are running on the dangerous Project 2025 agenda to put tax cuts for billionaires above lowering costs for working people, outlaw abortion and threaten other basic rights, and put our democracy at risk. The more voters learn about the Trump-Vance ticket - the most extreme running mates in modern American history - the more fired up they are to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this November."