President Trump foreshadowed the fall fight between his campaign and that of presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris.
“She was my No. 1 draft pick,” Trump said of the California Democrat on Tuesday. “We’ll see how she works out. She did very, very poorly in the primaries.”
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Trump claimed Harris, during her failed White House bid, supported raising taxes, slashing military funds, and rolling out a socialized medicine program, while being against fracking.
Trump said he was “surprised” Biden, the two-term vice president, picked Harris given their confrontation during the opening debates over his record of federally mandated busing in the 1960s and ’70s. The president also didn’t hesitate to call her “nasty” over her grilling of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation 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,” he told reporters.
Biden unveiled Harris as his No. 2 on Tuesday after months of speculation. The Trump campaign has already used the Biden-Harris debate clash against the pair.
“Not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never received,” Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said in a statement Tuesday. “Clearly, Phony Kamala will abandon her own morals, as well as try to bury her record as a prosecutor, in order to appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat Party.”
Pierson added, “In her failed attempt at running for president, Kamala Harris gleefully embraced the left’s radical manifesto, calling for trillions of dollars in new taxes and backing Bernie Sanders’ government takeover of healthcare.”
