加利福尼亚州参议员卡马拉·哈里斯星期一抵达威斯康星州，开始她自接受民主党副总统提名以来的首次竞选之旅，因为劳动节标志着本垒打的开始2020年总统竞选季。
在密尔沃基着陆后不久，哈里斯会见了他的家人和法律团队雅各布·布莱克一名29岁的黑人男子上个月在克诺沙当着他三个孩子的面被枪杀，目前仍在住院治疗。
会议在密尔沃基的一个私人机场举行，包括布莱克的父亲、两个姐妹和他的法律团队成员。根据活动发布的与会者名单，布莱克、他的母亲和家庭律师本杰明·克伦普通过电话加入了此次活动。
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2020年9月7日，民主党副总统候选人卡马拉·哈里斯抵达威斯康星州密尔沃基市的密尔沃基米切尔国际机场。
周一晚些时候，哈里斯在参观位于密尔沃基以西五英里的瓦瓦图萨市的国际电气工人兄弟会(IBEW)培训设施时，回答了一名记者的大声提问，称这次会议“非常精彩”。
下午晚些时候，在与密尔沃基黑人商业领袖举行圆桌会议之前，哈里斯花时间分享了她与布莱克及其家人会面的一些细节。
“我的意思是，他们是一个不可思议的家庭，他们所忍受的，他们只是这样做的尊严和优雅，你知道。”她们肩上扛着许多声音的重担。”
她说她表达了对家庭幸福的关心，这次会面是“让他们知道他们得到了支持。”
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2020年9月7日，密尔沃基，民主党副总统候选人卡马拉·哈里斯在参观国际电气工人兄弟会(IBEW)的培训设施时，倾听一名工人的声音。
克伦普称这次访问是“鼓舞人心的”和“振奋人心的”，并说哈里斯讨论了如果她和民主党总统候选人乔·拜登当选她将寻求的政策变化，包括《治安司法法案》和对执法人员的隐性偏见培训。
“在一个感人的时刻，小雅各布告诉参议员哈里斯，他为她感到骄傲，参议员告诉雅各布，她也为他感到骄傲，以及他是如何克服痛苦的。”小雅各布向她保证，他不会为了孩子而放弃生命。”声明会后。“她鼓励他们继续用他们的声音，即使是通过他们的痛苦来帮助美国在结束系统性的种族主义方面取得进展。”
拜登上周还会见了布莱克的家人和法律团队。
在他几个月来最积极的竞选之旅中，拜登上周四拜访了布莱克在密尔沃基的家人——布莱克通过电话加入——并在基诺沙会见了社区领袖。
白宫还将威斯康星州视为11月份的关键奖项，该州总统唐纳德·特朗普在2016年险胜该州。副总统迈克·彭斯星期一也在该州参观一个能源设施，并在拉克罗斯发表讲话。
特朗普上周二访问了威斯康星州，会见了商界领袖和当地执法人员。他在讲话中没有提到布莱克的名字。
奥巴马总统此前曾与布莱克母亲的牧师通过电话，称他们的谈话“很棒”，但他表示，他没有直接与布莱克一家联系，因为他们希望律师旁听谈话，他说这“不合适。”
Kamala Harris meets with family of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, Blake joins by phone
California Sen. Kamala Harris is on the ground in Wisconsin Monday for her first campaign trip since accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination -- as Labor Day marks thestart of the home stretchfor the 2020 presidential campaign season.
Shortly after landing in Milwaukee, Harris met with the family and legal team ofJacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot in Kenosha in front of three of his children last month and remains hospitalized.
The meeting, which took place at a private airport in Milwaukee, included Blake's father, two sisters and members of his legal team. Blake, his mother and family attorney Benjamin Crump joined by phone, according to a list of attendees released by the campaign.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris arrives at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, Sept. 7, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Harris called the meeting "really wonderful" when answering a shouted question from a reporter while on a tour of an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) training facility inWauwatosa, a city five miles west of Milwaukee, later on Monday.
Ahead of a roundtable with Black Milwaukee business leaders in the late afternoon, Harris took the moment to share some details of her meeting with Blake and his family.
"I mean, they're an incredible family and what they’ve endured and they just do it with such dignity and grace, and you know. They're carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders," she said.
She said she expressed concern for the family's well-being and that the meeting was "to let them know that they have support."
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris listens to a worker as she tours an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) training facility, Sept. 7, 2020, in Milwaukee.
Crump called the visit "inspirational" and "uplifting" and said Harris discussed policy changes she would seek if she and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden were elected, including the Justice in Policing Act and implicit bias training for law enforcement.
"In a moving moment, Jacob Jr. told Sen. Harris that he was proud of her, and the senator told Jacob that she was also proud of him and how he is working through his pain. Jacob Jr. assured her that he would not give up on life for the sake of his children," Crump said in astatementfollowing the meeting. "She encouraged them to continue to use their voices even through their pain to help America make progress to end systematic racism."
Biden last week also met with Blake's family and legal team.
In one of his most aggressive campaign trips in months, Biden last Thursday visited with Blake's family in Milwaukee -- with Blake joining by phone -- and met with community leaders in Kenosha.
The White House also sees Wisconsin, a state President Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016, as a pivotal prize in November. Vice President Mike Pence is also in the state Monday to tour an energy facility and deliver remarks in La Crosse.
Trump visited Wisconsin last Tuesday where he met with business leaders and local law enforcement. He didn't mention Blake's name in his remarks.
The president has previously spoken by phone to Blake's mother's pastor and called theirs "a great talk," but said he hasn't connected with the Blake family directly because they want lawyers to listen in on the conversation, which he has said would be "inappropriate."
