Kamala Harris said Saturday that if voters elect her in November, she will have the physical and mental resilience necessary to successfully carry out the duties of the presidency. A report on her condition and medical history was scheduled to be released, her senior aide said. campaign.
The aide said the vice president’s advisers see the release of the health report and medical history as an opportunity to draw attention to questions about Republican White House nominee Donald Trump’s physical fitness and mental acuity. Ta. Trump, 78, has also not released information about his health, but if Americans grant him a second term in the Oval Office, he would be the oldest elected president. .
As the Guardian US reported in early October, President Trump has become increasingly incoherent at campaign rallies. Medical experts say he slurred his speech, stumbled over his words, hurled expletives and showed signs of cognitive decline seen in people approaching their 80s.
In recent speeches, he has gone on a rant about topics ranging from his “beautiful” body to Afghanistan’s “One Million Rambos.” Meanwhile, Harris’ campaign aides said that President Trump had refused an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, but the vice president had agreed, and that Trump would debate Harris again after the September 10 showdown. He pointed out that he had refused. They claim the former president is “avoiding public scrutiny” and giving voters “the impression that he has something to hide and may not be cut out for the job.”
“Compare her age and vitality to his,” a senior aide to Mr. Harris, 59, said early Saturday.
Joe Biden was forced to halt his re-election efforts throughout the summer, raising questions about whether he was too weak. The 81-year-old Democrat withdrew from a rematch with Trump on July 21 and endorsed Harris as his successor.
According to an average of recent national polls, Ms. Harris has a nearly 4-point lead over Mr. Trump in the November 5 presidential election. But key battleground states remain close, and most experts predict a competitive election.
The Republican was convicted in May of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to adult film actors, nearly a decade before Trump’s successful bid for president. Despite this, they chose Trump as their candidate. Among other legal matters, he is grappling with criminal charges that he illegally tried to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
President Trump claimed that Biden was “mentally ill.” Harris also said she was “born that way” as she struggled to pronounce the vice president’s name.
“Using derogatory language is not healthy for our country,” Harris told a group of undecided voters at City Hall in Las Vegas on Thursday.
“I don’t admire it,” Harris said. “And actually, I’m pretty critical of statements from people who want to be president of the United States.”
