Former President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, saying during a Latino outreach campaign in Miami that she is “the worst” and “slow” with a “low IQ.”
“This woman is the worst. I mean, it’s just unbelievable,” Trump said during the roundtable with Latino leaders.
He first attacked Harris for choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. “I think she made a terrible mistake. We’ll see what happens. Let’s see what happens on November 5. But there’s something wrong with him. Frankly, there’s something wrong, and there’s something wrong with her.” She’s slow, low IQ, something, I don’t know what it is, but they lied.’
“We don’t need another person with a low IQ,” he continued. “We’ve had one for four years. We don’t need another one.”
During the event, where roundtable participants repeatedly praised Trump, the former president also attacked Harris for not appearing on the campaign trail on Tuesday.
Although Harris will not appear at campaign events, she will be present for interviews with Hallie Jackson of NBC News and Julio Vaqueiro of Telemundo. Although she has been criticized by Trump and his allies for a lack of news interviews, she has made a slew of media appearances in recent weeks, including an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that Trump himself skipped.
‘They lie about everything. And I wanted to hit her really hard on the path today, but now I don’t have to, because she’s gone. She’s gone. No, I can’t get over it. out?” Trump said Tuesday. “You’ve got fourteen days left, and she’s taking a few days off too. You know why? She’s extremely lazy, and she has that reputation, and she’s a radical leftist lunatic, she’s further left than Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas,” he said, using the derogatory nickname he has given to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
NBC News reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
Trump often calls Harris, the country’s first black, South Asian and female vice president, stupid, weak and crazy. In recent weeks, the former president has stepped up his ad hominem attacks. At a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, Trump fired the people who had advised him to be nicer during the campaign.
‘I don’t want to be nice. Someone said, ‘You must be nice, sir. Women won’t like it,” Trump said, adding: “The women want safety.”
At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Trump continued his personal attacks on Saturday, telling his supporters: “You need to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore. We can’t stand you. You are a vice president.”
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