Former President Donald Trump has harshly criticized Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her a “bum” responsible for the migration crisis and the fact that migrants have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during her tenure in the Joe Biden administration.
The New York tycoon made these comments about Harris at the Turning Point USA Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
This comes after the Democratic vice president secured enough delegates for the Democratic Party nomination after Biden dropped out of his re-election bid, although Harris will not be officially nominated until the convention on Friday next week.
“Three weeks ago, she was a bum, a failed vice president and a failed administration with millions of people coming across the border. And she was the border czarina, now they’re trying to say she never was,” Trump said, alluding to claims by some media outlets that the vice president was never the border czarina, although several of those same outlets previously described her as such.
“They are erasing it everywhere,” he added. “They want to take it away because we have the worst border in history. And three and a half years ago we had the best border we have ever had.”
The current Democratic president chose Harris in 2021 to address important causes such as mass migration from Central and South America.
In March 2021, Biden said the vice presidency was leading efforts to coordinate with Mexico and other nations such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to address issues such as the increase in migrants at the southern border.
Earlier this week, the House of Representatives approved a resolution condemning the lawyer and border czar for her handling of the immigration crisis at the border. The ruling was approved by a vote of 220 to 196, with at least six Democrats supporting Republicans in condemning Harris.
In his remarks, Trump misspoke about Harris’s name, appeared to have difficulty pronouncing the vice president’s last name and said there are multiple ways to pronounce her name, Fox News reported.
“By the way, there are many ways to say his name… It doesn’t matter what I say. I don’t care if I pronounce it wrong or not. I don’t care,” she said. “Some people think I mispronounce it on purpose, but I’ve actually heard it seven different ways. There are a lot of them.”
The former president also claimed again that Democrats are trying to commit fraud in the November election and assured Christians in attendance that Americans will not have to vote at the end of his presidency because “by then it will be fixed” — a reference that Democrats have criticized as fascism and an attempt to refuse to leave office.
“If you want to save America, gather your friends, gather your family, gather everyone you know, and vote,” Trump said. “Vote early, vote absentee, vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote. And I repeat, Christians, get out and vote, but this time, get out and vote.”
Harris’s campaign, meanwhile, criticized the Republican’s speech as “bitter” and “strange.”
“Tonight, Donald Trump was at a loss for words, insulted the faith of American Jews and Catholics, lied about the election (again), lied about other things, bragged about overturning Roe, proposed cutting billions in education funding, announced he would appoint more extremist judges, revealed he planned to pack a second Trump term with more criminals like him, attacked the legal vote, went on and on and on, and generally sounded like someone you wouldn’t want to sit near in a restaurant, let alone be President of the United States,” Harris campaign spokesman James Singer said in a statement.
“America can do better than the bitter, bizarre, retrograde ravings of criminal Donald Trump,” Singer continued. “Vice President Kamala Harris offers a vision for America’s future centered on freedom, opportunity, and security.”
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