2024-07-27 08:40:19
Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a barrage of attacks against US Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her a “radical lunatic” at his first rally since the Democrat launched her candidacy following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race for the White House.
In a speech in which he also claimed Harris was in favor of “executing” babies because of her pro-abortion stance: “She is a radical left-wing lunatic who will destroy our country,” the former president and Republican candidate said.
“We will not let that happen,” he told a crowd in North Carolina, repeatedly mispronouncing Harris’s first name.
The 59-year-old Democrat has plunged into the White House campaign with Biden’s backing, following her historic decision over the weekend to abandon her re-election bid.
Wearing his traditional red tie, Trump called Harris “the ultra-liberal driving force behind every one of Biden’s catastrophes.”
He also claimed that Democratic Party bosses were “undemocratically” behind Biden’s decision to drop out of office and accused Harris, whom he dubbed “Kamala the liar,” of covering up the president’s “mental incapacity.”
The White House earlier denied any cover-up of a possible deterioration in Biden’s health before his decision to drop out of the race.
“Now we have a new victim to defeat,” Trump exclaimed, before criticizing the vice president’s record, especially on foreign policy and immigration.
“If we start to beat him by 10 or 15 points in the polls, do you think they will send us a third candidate?” he said.
She also touched on the hot-button issue of abortion, after Harris promised to put the right to terminate a pregnancy at the center of her campaign and fight for women’s freedom to decide about their bodies.
“She wants abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy, up to birth and even after birth, the execution of a baby,” the tycoon alleged.
Harris has repeatedly accused Trump of wanting to ban the procedure.
Some of the Republican’s supporters wore T-shirts at the rally commemorating the moment when Trump raised his fist, his ear bleeding, in defiance after an assassination attempt on July 13.
© Agence France-Presse
