Mining Midwest momentum

Harris packs Wisconsin arena that hosted RNC while Obamas address Chicago crowd

- STEVE PEOPLES, JONATHAN J. COOPER AND ZEKE MILLER

Michelle Obama tore into Donald Trump, saying "who's going to tell him that the job he's seeking might be one of those 'Black jobs'?"

Kamala Harris rallied thousands of voters in one packed arena as former U.S. president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama energized millions more on Harris’ behalf inside another on a Tuesday night designed to demonstrate the energy and breadth of the Democratic nominee’s evolving coalition.

“Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it?” the former first lady told the Democratic National Convention in Chicago before referencing her husband’s famous slogan. “It’s the contagious power of hope.”

Obama added, ”America, hope is making a comeback.”

And she tore into Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has long attacked the first Black president and first lady, before hearkening back to a recent comment Trump made about preserving socalled “Black jobs.”

“His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black,” he said. “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s seeking might be one of those ‘Black jobs’?”

Harris, speaking just minutes earlier in battleground Wisconsin — at a rally in the arena where Republicans held their convention last month — declared that she was running “a people-powered campaign.”

“Together we will chart a new way forward,” the vice-president said in remarks that were partially broadcast to the DNC. “A future for freedom, opportunity, of optimism and faith.”