Vice President Kamala Harris responded to former President Donald J. Trump’s profanity-filled insults during his tenure as vice president, saying in an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday that she has “earned the right to be president.” We haven’t earned it.” Also.
“The American people deserve better,” she told Sharpton on the show, according to a recording released by the network. She later added, “Donald Trump should never stand behind the seal of the President of the United States again.” He hasn’t earned that right. He hasn’t earned that right. And that’s why he loses. ”
Sharpton asked her to respond to “street talk from people who want to be president,” referring to Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania the day before. After taking a new level of vulgarity with comments about the late golfer Arnold Palmer, Trump encouraged his audience to shout profanities to describe the Biden-Harris administration, then added his own words. added.
And with just over two weeks until Election Day, the final stretch of this massive split-screen campaign comes to an end.
Harris spent much of her 60th birthday Sunday at a church in Georgia as part of a mobilization effort for Souls to the Polls, a campaign that reaches out to black faith communities. Mr. Trump worked at a McDonald’s drive-thru, a stunt intended to draw attention to his accusation that, as Mr. Harris said, he had never worked at a fast-food restaurant. (Her campaign and friends said she had done so.)
Harris also answered Sharpton’s question about her popularity among black voters, particularly black men, and asked whether she thought misogyny was to blame for her waning support with some voters. .
Harris said about 10,000 people attended her rally in Atlanta on Saturday and said the lack of support was “not really working out.”
“I’m clear,” she added, “I have to earn everyone’s vote, regardless of race or gender.”
Harris also suggested that the question was brought up by an “ignorant” reporter, saying her most visible surrogate, former President Barack Obama, blamed the lack of support on some black people. I omitted the fact that the man wondered aloud on stage, “Isn’t it because he doesn’t have the support?” I feel the idea of having a woman as president. ”