Lara Trump warns voters still on the fence about voting for her father-in-law Donald of the dire outcome if Kamala Harris is elected
Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, is increasingly warning about the consequences if Kamala Harris wins the 2024 presidential election.
Polls show a close race, with less than three months to go until election day.
The Republican National Committee co-chair, who is married to Trump’s son Eric, painted an extreme picture on her podcast The Right View on Thursday.
‘Can you really tell me that you can look at your children when we’re actually in a recession, when we’re actually in World War III, when everything is falling apart around us and the country that we’ve always known is in shambles, and you can look at your children and say, ‘Yes, I voted for this?’ Trump asked.
‘“This is serious,” she warned, looking straight into the camera. “We are really on the cusp of a lot of terrible things happening in our country and in our world.”
RNC Chair Lara Trump warned on her podcast of World War III and a recession if her father-in-law doesn’t win the November election. “This is serious,” she said.
The 41-year-old’s appeal to voters comes amid polls showing the vice president running neck-and-neck with the Republican former president in the presidential race.
According to the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls, Harris has a half-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head contest, putting them statistically tied.
Lara Trump’s warning of World War III echoes what her father-in-law has been saying for some time about what would happen if he is not re-elected for a second term in November.
The former president made the bleak assertion in February during a speech at CPAC and at campaign rallies before President Joe Biden withdrew from the race last month.
Trump, 78, had also warned of economic disaster if Biden won the 2020 election. At the time, he warned of a stock market crash and the US facing a depression like no other if he was not re-elected.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with his daughter-in-law Lara at the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee
In January, the former president again predicted that the economy would collapse and said he hoped it would happen before he was elected for a second term.
On Monday, amid a massive global market sell-off, Trump took to social media to call it the “Kamala crash.” Republicans warned the sharp decline was the first step toward economic catastrophe, with the prospect of Harris being elected.
But the former president and the GOP remained silent as markets largely recovered throughout the week, recouping most of Friday’s losses.
While it is difficult to predict a coming recession and there are still doubts about whether the Federal Reserve will be able to engineer a so-called soft landing, many experts believe the chances of a recession by the end of the year are slim.
But that didn’t stop Lara Trump from painting a bleak picture.
“You see everything seems to be going in the wrong direction, and lately it’s been the stock market,” she said. “We’re on the brink of a major recession.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz at a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on August 7, as polls show her in a neck-and-neck race with Donald Trump
She also claimed that the vice president supporting the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2021 was to blame for rising gas prices, though experts have said that wasn’t the biggest impact on oil prices during the Biden administration. She also accused the Biden administration’s policies of causing inflation.
At the same time, the RNC co-chair joined other Republicans in criticizing the vice president over the border. GOP lawmakers and officials have branded Harris a “border czar” after Biden tapped her to join his administration to help address the root causes of migration.
The RNC co-chair argued on her podcast that voters don’t even have to report that they’re voting for the Republican presidential candidate.
“You vote for Donald Trump and you don’t have to tell anyone, but deep down you know you did the right thing for the future of America,” she said.
Trump’s daughter-in-law also claimed that the vice president “failed her entire career” and that Biden gave her the job because she is a woman.
Trump, who took over as chairman of the RNC in March, argued: “Don’t ever give me a position based on the fact that I’m a woman. I either earned it or I didn’t.”