Harris Denounces Trump for Saying Jan. 6 Was a ‘Day of Love’

Campaigning in Wisconsin, the vice president said her Republican rival was “gaslighting” Americans with his effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021.

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At a rally on Thursday in La Crosse, Wis., Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Donald J. Trump and said Americans were “exhausted with his gaslighting. Enough. We are ready to turn the page.”

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday slammed former President Donald J. Trump for calling Jan. 6, 2021, the day his supporters attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a “day of love.”

Speaking in La Crosse, Wis., Ms. Harris said her Republican opponent was “gaslighting” Americans with his effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6 as a mostly peaceful day. He has falsely argued that the violence was instigated not by his supporters but by forces opposed to him.

“We here know Jan. 6 was a tragic day, it was a day of terrible violence,” Ms. Harris told a crowd organizers estimated at about 3,000 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus gymnasium. “He called it, quote, a day of love. But it points out something that everyone here knows. The American people are exhausted with his gaslighting. Exhausted with his gaslighting. Enough. We are ready to turn the page.”

Mr. Trump had been pressed on Wednesday by a voter during a town-hall event broadcast on Univision to explain why he should earn back the trust of Americans who grew disillusioned with him because of his actions, including on Jan. 6.

“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions,” Mr. Trump said. “It could have been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before. They asked me to speak and I went and I spoke.”

The mob attack on Jan. 6 in fact injured roughly 150 law enforcement officers and led to the deaths of several others.

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