VP Kamala Harris in Milwaukee says bringing costs down would be 'highest priority' as president

Vice President Kamala Harris left Milwaukee Saturday with a message to voters here who feel prices are too high to make ends meet.

"My highest priority as president will be to bring down the costs because to that point, look, I know the cost of groceries is too high still," Harris said. "Everyone knows it."

Harris's comments at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee came the morning after she and former President Donald Trump held dueling rallies in the Milwaukee area, just days before Tuesday's election.

Harris held a rally-concert at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center while just miles away former President Donald Trump returned to the Fiserv Forum for a rally of his own.

Harris and Trump are locked in a tight battle for the White House, and both are making their final appeals to voters in this key battleground state, where they're in a dead heat .

Harris Saturday morning said if she wins, she would take steps including banning price gouging on groceries, giving first-time homebuyers $25,000 downpayment assistance, expanding the child tax credit and increasing tax breaks for small businesses.

She also said one of her top priorities for her first day in office would be to submit a package of proposals focused on bringing down costs.

Harris was also asked what her faith tells her about who God wants to win the election and lead the country.

"My faith and my belief in God tells me that we all must think about our lives through our ability to do good works and through those works to lift people up, to help the needy, to help the poor, to help the elderly," she said. "And my plan for my presidency is informed with that spirit and that approach."

She said a real leader is defined not by who they beat down but by who they lift up.

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