‘What does that even mean?’

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former President Donald Trump Thursday night, chiding him for calling himself “the father of IVF.” 

“He refuses continuously to acknowledge the harm he has caused. See for yourself, let’s roll a clip,” Harris said. 

Then, before a crowd of more than 4,000 people in this critical battleground state, a series of video clips of Trump played on a giant screen where he was seen praising himself for overturning abortion rights protections set out in Roe v. Wade. 

The crowd heckled and howled at each of the segments that were played, which ended with a Fox News town hall in which he took questions from women.     

“It just gets more unbelievable sometimes. Now he calls himself the father of IVF? What does that even mean?” Harris said incredulously, adding, “He is the one, who, by the way, is responsible for it being at risk in the first place.”  

At that, several women in the crowd could be seen turning to each other, nodding and expressing agreement.

“It does get more unbelievable,” one could be heard saying.

NBC News reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.

After the rally, the woman said Harris’ remarks resonated with her.

“I’m so tired of his lies,” she said, noting that s he supported Harris’ policies. She did not want to give her name, she said, because she lives in a “divided family,” having a husband who supports Trump.  

Rallygoer Linda Patzke of Pittsfield, Wisconsin, cited reproductive rights as one of the most motivating issues of the election, in addition to public education and the environment. Patzke, a mother of four and grandmother to seven, said she was tired of what she thought was a double standard with the government wanting to intervene in women’s health choices.

“Where does the male take the responsibility for their role?” she said. “Where is the male ever held by the same standard?” 

A senior Harris campaign official said the vice president would increasingly use her rallies as a platform to remind women that Trump’s first-term actions were responsible for abortion bans across the country. The official added that she would also highlight what the person described as unhinged comments Trump is making. 

The emphasis on women comes after Harris has regularly polled strongest with the group. In the final stretch of the race, survey after survey has shown both Harris and Trump neck and neck as the final weeks of the presidential race are upon them. Wisconsin remains on the knife’s edge. A Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday showed the two in a dead heat. 

Harris’ visit to Green Bay was the final of three stops in Wisconsin Thursday, after she held events in LaCrosse and Milwaukee along with billionaire businessman Mark Cuban.

In between laying out her own policy proposals, Harris hit Trump on other issues, including when he was asked at a recent town hall about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

“What did Donald Trump say? He called it ‘a day of love,’” Harris said to groans. “The American people are exhausted with his gaslighting. We are ready to turn the page!” 

At that, chants broke out in the crowd of, “We’re not going back.”

At one point, Harris, highlighting a new policy proposal, spoke about family members who were caretakers of the elderly, underscoring it was important they be treated with “dignity” in their later years. She specifically called out the “sandwich generation” stuck financially because they can’t afford home health care for their parents unless families draw down all their savings to qualify for Medicaid. 

“Instead, we’re going to have Medicare cover home health care for those people,” Harris said.