CHICAGO – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer danced onto the Democratic National Convention stage for his speech Tuesday and warned of a rise of ethnic hatred under GOP Donald Trump if Vice President Kamala Harris loses the election in November.
“This November we can choose a brighter, a fairer, a freer future, or we can relive the dark night of Trump’s American carnage,” Mr. Schumer said in his Tuesday speech. “Only one candidate will move America forward — Kamala Harris.”
The New York Democrat called her the “best partner Senate Democrats could ever have asked for.”
He pushed the goal of maintaining a Democratic majority in the Senate.
“We are going to hold the Senate again and we are poised to pick up seats,” he said.
Mr. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history, spoke of antisemitism.
“I want my grandkids—and all grandkids—to never, never face discrimination because of who they are,” Mr. Schumer said.
He hit Mr. Trump on his rhetoric.
“This is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes. He even invited a white supremacist to Mar-a-Lago. And unfortunately, his prejudice goes in all directions — he fuels Islamophobia, and issued a Muslim ban as president,” he said.
“Tonight folks, I am wearing this blue square, to stand up against antisemitism, to stand up to all hate,” he said of his lapel pin. “Our children, our grandchildren — no matter their race, no matter their creed, their gender or family — deserve better than Donald Trump’s American carnage.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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