Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is stepping up her warnings about what could happen if Kamala Harris wins the 2024 presidential election.
Polls show a very close race less than three months before election day.
The Republican National Committee co-chair, who is married to Trump’s son Eric, painted an extreme picture Thursday on her podcast The Right View.
‘“Can you really tell me that you’ll be able to look at your children when we’re in a recession, when we’re in the middle of World War III, when things are falling apart around us and the country we’ve always known is absolutely in ruins, and you’ll be able to look at your children and say, yeah, I voted for this?” Trump asked.
‘“This is serious,” he warned, looking directly into the camera. “We are really on the verge of a lot of terrible things happening in our country and in our world.”
Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, warned on her podcast of World War III and a recession if her father-in-law does not win the election in November. “This is serious,” she said.
The 41-year-old’s appeal to voters comes at a time when polls show the vice president tied with the former Republican president in the presidential race.
The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls now shows Harris leading Trump in a head-to-head matchup by half a point, putting them in a statistical tie.
Lara Trump’s warning about World War III is similar to what her father-in-law has long been saying about what would happen if he is not re-elected for a second term in November.
The former president made the stark claim in February during a speech at CPAC, as well as at campaign events before President Joe Biden dropped out of 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 risk of the United States facing a never-before-seen depression 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 expected that to happen before he was elected to a second term.
On Monday, amid a massive sell-off in global markets, Trump took to social media to call it “the fall of Kamala,” while Republicans warned that the steep decline was the first step toward economic catastrophe if Harris were elected.
But the former president and the Republican Party remained silent as markets largely recovered during the week, recouping most of their losses on Friday.
While it is difficult to predict a future recession and there are still questions about whether the Federal Reserve will be able to carry out a so-called soft landing, many experts believe the likelihood of a recession by the end of the year is remote.
But that didn’t stop Lara Trump from painting a bleak picture.
“Everything seems to be going in the wrong direction, not least of which lately is the stock market,” he said. “We are on the verge of a major recession.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz at a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on August 7, as polls show her in a tight race with Donald Trump.
He also claimed that the vice president’s support for canceling the Keystone XL pipeline in 2021 is what caused gas prices to rise, although experts have said that was not what had the biggest impact on oil market prices during the Biden administration. He also accused the Biden administration’s policies of causing inflation.
At the same time, the Republican National Committee co-chair joined other Republicans in criticizing the vice president over the border issue. Republican lawmakers and officials have seized on the opportunity to call Harris a “border czar” after Biden called on her to help address the root causes of migration at the start of his administration.
The RNC co-chair argued during her podcast that voters don’t even need to share that they are 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 upwards her entire career” and that Biden gave her the job because she is a woman.
Trump, who took over as RNC co-chair in March, argued: “Never give me a position based on the fact that I’m a woman, either I won it or I didn’t.”