Kamala Harris’ campaign has slammed Donald Trump after he attacked the vice president during a campaign speech in Minnesota.
Trump, the Republican candidate for the presidential election, called Harris, who is the likely Democratic nominee for the November poll, a “radical left lunatic” who was “evil” and “unhinged” during his 90 minute address in St. Cloud on Saturday.
She said Harris will proceed with allowing high immigration if she is elected to the Oval Office and also mocked her laugh and her policies.
In a statement in response released by Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika, the campaign claimed it was Trump who was “unhinged.”
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“Tonight in Minnesota, a bitter, unhinged, 78-year-old convicted felon kept clinging to his lies about the 2020 election he lost being ‘rigged,’ rambled about his former president and golfing, and made excuses for why he’s afraid to debate Vice President Harris. Donald Trump said that if [he] loses, our country is ‘finished.’ Yesterday, he promised the end of our democracy if he wins.”
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Trump’s address comes as Minnesota has emerged as a target for the Republican’s campaign. Chris LaCivita, one of Trump’s senior 2024 presidential campaign advisers, told NBC News in May that he believes the Trump campaign has “a real, real opportunity in expanding the map” in the state.
According to latest polling data by aggregator FiveThirtyEight, the Democrats and Republicans are polling evenly in the state.
However, Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972, when Richard Nixon won nearly every state, except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Even in 2016, when Trump flipped most other Midwestern states, Minnesota still narrowly backed Hillary Clinton.
Elsewhere at the event, Trump’s running mate JD Vance attacked Harris by claiming the media has misled the public about her.
“We’ve got some of our friends in the media back there,” he said, gesturing to the back of the venue while the crowd loudly booed. “They deserve it,” he said.
“For three and a half years, my friends, they told us that Joe Biden was Abraham Lincoln. And now the media tells us that Kamala Harris is Martin Luther King Jr. Can you believe it?” Vance said.
“But we all know she’s not MLK, just as Joe Biden was not Abraham Lincoln.”
“We know that she is a card-carrying member of the San Francisco Lunatic Fringe,” he continued.
Vance and Trump have been ramping up attacks on Harris since Biden stood down on July 21 and endorsed Harris.
With three months to go until voters go to the polls, these lines of attacks are likely to continue.
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