威斯康星州莫西尼距离他与副总统的第一次也可能是唯一一次辩论只有几天了卡玛拉·哈里斯，前总统唐纳德·特朗普在他的社交媒体网站上发布了一个警告，威胁要监禁那些在这次选举中“参与不道德行为”的人，他说这次选举将受到严格审查。
“当我获胜时，那些作弊的人将被最大限度地起诉，这将包括长期监禁，以便这种司法腐败不会再次发生，”特朗普周六晚些时候写道，这再次引发了人们对选举诚信的怀疑，尽管作弊非常罕见。
“请注意，”他接着说，“这种法律风险会延伸到律师、政治运作人员、捐赠者、非法选民，&腐败的选举官员。那些参与不道德行为的人将被搜寻、逮捕和起诉，不幸的是，这在我们国家是前所未有的。"
特朗普的信息代表了他的最新威胁，如果他赢得第二个任期，他将利用总统办公室实施报复。没有证据表明他继续坚持破坏2020年选举的那种欺诈行为;事实上，数十家法院、共和党州官员和他自己的政府都表示，他输得很公平。
就在几天前，特朗普本人在播客采访中承认他确实“差一点就输了”
虽然特朗普的竞选助手和盟友敦促他继续关注哈里斯，并让选举成为关于通胀和边境安全等问题的公投，但特朗普最近几天偏离了轨道。
星期五，他向新闻摄像机发表了令人震惊的声明其中他提出了一系列过去的不当性行为指控，并绘声绘色地描述了几个细节，尽管他否认了原告的指控。早些时候，他曾自愿出庭参加一场关于一项判决的上诉听证会，该判决认定他对性虐待负有责任，在竞选的最后阶段，人们将焦点转向了他的法律困境。
周六早些时候，特朗普在威斯康星州共和党最激烈的战场之一竞选时，陷入了熟悉的不满情绪，从他的起诉到俄罗斯干预2016年大选。
特朗普在威斯康星州中部机场的一次户外集会上声称，“哈里斯-拜登DOJ试图把我扔进监狱——他们希望我进监狱——因为我揭露了他们的腐败行为，”特朗普在一堵防弹玻璃墙后发表讲话，原因是他在7月份之后出台了新的安全协议暗杀企图.
没有证据表明乔·拜登总统或哈里斯对司法部或州检察官起诉前总统的决定有任何影响。
法宝避开了传统的辩论准备自周四以来，哈里斯一直躲在匹兹堡市中心的一家历史悠久的酒店里，与助手们一起工作。
哈里斯目前已经同意由美国广播公司主持一场单独的辩论。
在集会上，特朗普概述了他“抽干沼泽”的计划——这是对他在2016年获胜的竞选信息的回归，当时他作为一个局外人挑战现状。尽管特朗普在椭圆形办公室呆了四年，但他再次发誓，如果他再次获胜，他将“驱逐腐败的政治阶层”，并“60年来首次有意义地削减我们政府的脂肪”。
作为努力的一部分，他重复了他的计划，周四宣布创建一个由埃隆·马斯克领导的新的“政府效率委员会”，负责对“整个联邦政府进行全面的财务和绩效审计”，以根除浪费。
特朗普在2020年竞选失败后，再次诽谤调查2021年1月6日他的支持者袭击国会大厦的国会委员会，他告诉数千人，他将“迅速审查每一个被哈里斯政权不公正迫害的政治犯的案件”，并在他重返办公室的第一天签署他们的赦免书。
特朗普一再为那些因犯罪而被监禁的人辩护，包括对执法人员的暴力袭击.
他说，他将“彻底改革”他所称的“卡玛拉腐败的非正义部门”
“他们不会迫害共和党人，而是将重点放在打击嗜血的卡特尔、跨国团伙和激进的伊斯兰恐怖分子上，”他说。
哈里斯竞选发言人沙拉菲娜·奇蒂卡发表声明回应他的评论，警告说，如果特朗普再次当选，他将“使用他不受制约的权力起诉他的敌人，并赦免1月6日暴力袭击我们国会大厦的叛乱分子。”
哈里斯和特朗普今年都是威斯康星州的常客，在过去的六次总统选举中，有四次是在不到一个百分点的情况下决定的。拜登退出后对威斯康星州选民进行的几次民意调查显示，哈里斯和特朗普在竞选中旗鼓相当。
民主党人认为威斯康星州是必须获胜的“蓝墙”州之一。拜登是谁周四在威斯康辛州，在2020年以不到21000票的优势赢得了该州。2016年，特朗普以略高的优势获得了近2.3万张选票。
在特朗普竞选期间，哈里斯在辩论准备期间短暂休息，去了匹兹堡长街区的Penzeys Spices，在那里她买了几样调料。一位顾客看到了这位民主党候选人，并开始公开哭泣，哈里斯拥抱了她并说:“我们会没事的。我们都在一起。”
哈里斯说她很荣幸背书来自两位主要的共和党人:前副总统迪克·切尼和他的女儿，前怀俄明州众议员利兹·切尼。
“人们对分裂和试图分裂我们美国人的做法感到疲惫不堪，”她说，并补充说，她在辩论中的主要信息是，这个国家希望团结。
“是时候翻过分裂的一页了，”她说。“是时候让我们的国家团结起来，规划一条新的前进道路了。”
特朗普在人口约4500人的威斯康星州中部城市莫西尼举行了集会。它位于威斯康辛州的第七国会选区，该选区主要是农村地区，是紫色州中一个可靠的共和党选区。
在演讲中，他用黑暗和不祥的语言抨击哈里斯，声称如果他称之为“卡玛拉·哈里斯同志”的女人再多活四年，你将生活在一个由“无政府状态”和“暴政”统治的成熟的香蕉共和国中
特朗普还指责政府的边境政策，称民主党的做法是“自杀”，并指责他们“从全球各地引进了杀人犯、儿童掠夺者和连环强奸犯”。
许多研究发现，移民，包括非法移民，减少暴力犯罪比土生土长的公民。美国的暴力犯罪下降了继疫情时代的高峰之后，去年继续下降趋势。
他驳斥了美国官员关于俄罗斯正在试图散布假情报11月大选前，包括上周的一份起诉书据称，一家与六名保守派有影响力的人有关联的媒体公司得到了俄罗斯国家媒体员工的秘密资助。
“司法部表示，俄罗斯可能会再次参与我们的选举，”特朗普对人群说。“而且，你知道，这次全世界都嘲笑它。”
人群中有戴尔·奥斯尔德森，他周六在他的第一次特朗普集会上庆祝了他的68岁生日。他希望第二届特朗普政府将采取“取消文化”，将这个国家带回到它的“基础过去”。
“我们已经有过去的政府说，他们想从根本上改变美国，”奥斯尔登说。“从根本上改变美国是一件坏事。”
许多支持者从威斯康星州驱车数小时前来观看特朗普的演讲。有些人来自更远的地方。
田纳西州音乐家肖恩·穆恩(Sean Moon)以艺名“Bullethead”发布MAGA主题说唱音乐，他在活动停车场的一辆卡车上大声演唱歌曲。作为一名音乐家，他说特朗普集会类似于喧闹的音乐会。
“特朗普是一位摇滚明星，”穆恩说。“他真不可思议。人们认为他代表着他们，而深渊国家试图杀死他，把他带出去。但他坚强地站着，代表着正常人。”
民主党依靠该州最大的两个城市密尔沃基和麦迪逊的大量选民来对抗共和党在莫西尼和密尔沃基郊区等农村地区的力量。特朗普必须在莫西尼等地赢得选票，才有机会削弱民主党在城市地区的优势。
共和党人于7月在密尔沃基举行了全国代表大会，特朗普此前曾四次前往该州，最近一次是上周在威斯康星州西部城市拉克罗斯。
上个月，哈里斯和她的竞选搭档，明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹充满了同一个密尔沃基竞技场在那里，共和党人举行了全国代表大会，与民主党全国代表大会在90英里之外的芝加哥同时举行。沃尔兹周一回到了密尔沃基他在工会组织的劳动节集会上发表了讲话。
Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead
MOSINEE, Wis. --With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against Vice PresidentKamala Harris, former PresidentDonald Trumpposted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote late Saturday, sowing doubt once more about the integrity of the election, even though cheating is incredibly rare.
“Please beware,” he went on, “that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters,&Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country."
Trump's message represents his latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins a second term. There is no evidence of the kind of fraud he continues to insist marred the 2020 election; in fact, dozens of courts, Republican state officials and his own administration have said he lost fairly.
Just days ago, Trump himselfacknowledged in a podcast interviewthat he had indeed “lost by a whisker.”
While Trump's campaign aides and allies have urged him to keep his focus on Harris and make the election a referendum on issues like inflation and border security, Trump in recent days has veered far off course.
On Friday, hedelivered a stunning statement to news camerasin which he brought up a string of past allegations of sexual misconduct, describing several in graphic detail, even as he denied his accusers’ allegations. Earlier, he had voluntarily appeared in court for a hearing on the appeal of a decision that found him liable for sexual abuse, turning focus to his legal woes in the campaign's final stretch.
Earlier Saturday, Trump had leaned into familiar grievances about everything from his indictments to Russia's meddling in the 2016 election as he campaigned in one of the most deeply Republican swaths of battleground Wisconsin.
“The Harris-Biden DOJ is trying to throw me in jail — they want me in jail — for the crime of exposing their corruption,” Trump claimed at an outdoor rally at Central Wisconsin Airport, where he spoke behind a wall of bulletproof glass due to new security protocols following his Julyassassination attempt.
There’s no evidence thatPresident Joe Bidenor Harris have had any influence over decisions by the Justice Department or state prosecutors to indict the former president.
Trumphas eschewed traditional debate preparation, choosing to hold rallies and events while Harris has been cloistered in a historic hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, working with aides since Thursday.
Harris has agreed so far to a single debate, which will be hosted by ABC.
At the rally, Trump outlined his plans to “Drain the swamp” — a throwback to his winning 2016 campaign message as he ran as an outsider challenging the status quo. Though Trump spent four years in the Oval Office, he vowed anew to “cast out the corrupt political class” if he wins again and to “cut the fat out of our government for the first time, meaningfully, in 60 years.”
As part of that effort, he repeated his plan,announced Thursday, to create a new “Government Efficiency Commission” headed by Elon Musk that will be charged with conducting “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government" to root out waste.
After again maligning the Congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the nation’s capitol by his supporters after his election loss in 2020, Trump told the crowd of thousands that he would “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized by the Harris regime” and sign their pardons on his first day back in office.
Trump has repeatedly defended those who have been jailed for crimes includingviolent attacks on law enforcement.
And he said he would “completely overhaul” what he labeled “Kamala’s corrupt Department of Injustice.”
“Instead of persecuting Republicans, they will focus on taking down bloodthirsty cartels, transnational gangs, and radical Islamic terrorists,” he said.
Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika responded to his comments with a statement warning that, if Trump is reelected, he will “use his unchecked power to prosecute his enemies and pardon insurrectionists who violently attacked our Capitol on January 6."
Both Harris and Trump have been frequent visitors to Wisconsin this year, a state where four of the past six presidential elections have been decided by less than a percentage point. Several polls of Wisconsin voters conducted after Biden withdrew showed Harris and Trump in a close race.
Democrats consider Wisconsin to be one of the must-win “blue wall” states. Biden, who wasin Wisconsin on Thursday, won the state in 2020 by just under 21,000 votes. Trump carried it by a slightly larger margin, nearly 23,000 votes, in 2016.
As Trump was campaigning, Harris took a short break from debate prep to visit Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, where she bought several seasoning mixes. One customer saw the Democratic nominee and began openly weeping as Harris hugged her and said, “We’re going to be fine. We’re all in this together.”
Harris said she was honored to haveendorsementsfrom two major Republicans: former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman.
“People are exhausted, about the division and the attempts to kind of divide us as Americans,” she said, adding that her main message at the debate would be that the country wants to be united.
“It’s time to turn the page on the divisiveness,” she said. “It’s time to bring our country together, to chart a new way forward.”
Trump held his rally in the central Wisconsin city of Mosinee, with a population of about 4,500 people. It is within Wisconsin's mostly rural 7th Congressional District, a reliably Republican area in a purple state.
During his speech, he railed against Harris in dark and ominous language, claiming that if the woman he calls “Comrade Kamala Harris gets four more years, you will be living (in) a full-blown Banana Republic" ruled by “anarchy” and “tyranny.”
Trump also railed against the administration's border policies, calling the Democrats’ approach “suicidal" and accusing them of having “imported murderers, child predators and serial rapists from all over the planet."
Many studies have found immigrants, including those in the country illegally,commit fewer violent crimesthan native-born citizens.Violent crime in the U.S. droppedagain last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike.
He dismissed warnings from U.S. officials aboutongoing Russian attempts to spread disinformationahead of November's election, includingan indictment this past weekthat alleged a media company linked to six conservative influencers was secretly funded by Russian state media employees.
“The Justice Department said Russia may be involved in our elections again,” Trump told the crowd. “And, you know, the whole world laughed at it this time.”
Among those in the crowd was Dale Osuldsen, who was celebrating his 68th birthday Saturday at his first ever Trump rally. He hopes a second Trump administration will take on “cancel culture” and bring the country back to its “foundational past.
“We’ve had past administrations say they want to fundamentally change America,” Osulden said. “Fundamentally changing America is a bad thing.”
Many supporters embarked on hours-long drives from across Wisconsin to see Trump speak. Some came from even further.
Sean Moon, a Tennessee musician who releases MAGA-themed rap music under the stage name, “King Bullethead,” blasted his songs from a truck in the event parking lot. As a musician, he said Trump rallies approximate the experience of a raucous concert.
“Trump is a rockstar,” Moon said. “He’s incredible. People see he represents them and the deep state trying to kill him and take him out. But he’s standing strong, and he stands for the normal person.”
Democrats have relied on massive turnout in the state's two largest cities, Milwaukee and Madison, to counter Republican strength in rural areas like Mosinee and the Milwaukee suburbs. Trump must win the votes in places like Mosinee to have any chance of cutting into the Democrats' advantage in urban areas.
Republicans held their national convention in Milwaukee in July and Trump has made four previous stops to the state, most recently just last week in the western Wisconsin city of La Crosse.
Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, last monthfilled the same Milwaukee arenawhere Republicans held their national convention for a rally that coincided with the Democratic National Convention just 90 miles away in Chicago.Walz returned Monday to Milwaukee, where he spoke at a Labor Day rally organized by unions.
