Former President Donald Trump painted his new chief rival, Kamala Harris, as worse than President Joe Biden at a Saturday night rally, calling her “the most incompetent, unpopular and far-left vice president in American history.”
Moments into his remarks in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Trump again blamed a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights earlier in the day on the “incompetent Biden-Harris administration.”
He then quickly pivoted to Harris, calling her the “border czar,” as Republicans have been hammering the presumptive Democratic nominee over how she has handled her task of stemming the root causes of migration. “She’s terrible. She’s worse … she’s worse than he is,” Trump said of Harris and Biden.
Trump compared Biden to a fighter who was “badly beaten” and taken out of the fight.
Trump continued upon earlier remarks by his running mate, JD Vance, as he slammed Harris’ political record, saying that she “destroyed San Francisco” as county district attorney.
“A crazy liberal like Kamala Harris gets in, the American dream is dead,” Trump said.
Trump went after Harris on topics that included abortion, gun policy, climate change, entitlement programs and inflation. In a less substantive dig, he also mocked Harris’ laugh, claiming that the media was trying to portray her as a “Margaret Thatcher,” referring to the late British prime minister, but that “it’s not gonna happen,” because “Margaret Thatcher didn’t laugh like that.”
Though Trump still did partake in his usual mocking of Biden, including by imitating the president playing golf, he acknowledged that the hits weren’t as effective now that Biden had dropped out of the race.
Trump also drew a contrast between himself and Harris by recalling the racial justice protests in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis, while Kamala Harris sided with the arsonists and rioters and raised money to bail out the criminals,” he said, referring to a 2020 tweet from Harris encouraging donations to bail out protesters. The fund, in addition to other charitable bail groups, later came under fire after some defendants who were bailed out were arrested for alleged acts of violence.
The Harris campaign released a statement shortly after Trump’s speech concluded, blasting the Republican nominee as “a bitter, unhinged, 78-year-old convicted felon.”
Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said Trump “kept clinging to his lies about the 2020 election he lost being ‘rigged,’ rambled about his former opponent and golfing, and made excuses for why he’s afraid to debate Vice President Harris.”
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