One-time presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar slammed President Trump’s name-calling of Sen. Kamala Harris after it was announced she would be the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Shortly after the Harris-Biden ticket was revealed, Trump slammed the California Democrat as “nasty” and “very disrespectful” in a slew of insults about his opponent’s choice.
Klobuchar, who was also at one point being considered for a possible vice president choice, said Trump’s immediate attacks showed a lack of leadership.
“For the president to go before the country like he just did and not just say, ‘I congratulate her, we welcome her to the race,’ that’s what leaders do,” Klobuchar said Tuesday on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier. “Instead, what did he do? He called her angry, he called her nasty, he went back to those same criticisms with the words we have heard him use against women throughout this presidency. And I just think that’s crap. I think that is not a nice way to treat someone when they enter the race.”
Trump particularly criticized Harris’s behavior during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was being vetted for a spot on the High Court in 2018. Harris, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, grilled Kavanaugh on a number of issues, especially after when a sexual misconduct allegation by Christine Blasey Ford surfaced amid the process.
“She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing, the way she treated now-Justice Kavanaugh. And I won’t forget that,” Trump said during a press briefing.
Klobuchar, also a member of the Judiciary Committee, pushed back on that sentiment, saying at the time she thought Harris handled herself with grace.
“I thought, ‘Wow!’ I mean, she showed grace under pressure like she always does,” Klobuchar said.
The Minnesota Democrat also praised Harris as someone she knows well and will continue to vouch for, adding Trump’s words are completely inaccurate.
“I would never use those adjectives to describe her,” Klobuchar said. “I’d use the word tough. I think that’s good. I’d use the word[s] … someone who has grit and strength. I think we want that in a vice president. I’d use the word experience, and she served on the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Senate and is ready to take on foreign policy like you would like in a vice president.”
