CLEVELAND — President Trump is fixated on the legacy of former President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, according to Sen. Kamala Harris.
Trump and Attorney General William Barr were attempting to dismantle Obamacare through the Supreme Court because the president “has this weird obsession with trying to get rid of everything that Barack Obama and Joe Biden created,” the 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee told a small group of voters in Cleveland Saturday.
“Can I say, we don’t need presidents with weird obsessions. We don’t need that,” Harris said.
California’s junior senator also mocked Trump for saying “science doesn’t know” when last month, during a visit to her home stat,e he was confronted over whether wildfires were linked to climate change.
“This is a grown man,” she said, laughing. “If it weren’t so funny, we might understand that we deserve better. We deserve so much better. And we can have better.”
Harris spoke in a Cuyahoga County Community College courtyard against a blue and pink “Cleveland Rocks For Biden-Harris” banner, which didn’t offer much protection from the chilly fall breeze emanating from Lake Erie.
Her 30-minute speech laid out what she described as a “very clear choice” between her and Biden’s vision for the country and that of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. She specifically referred to four crises: the “mass casualty” COVID-19 pandemic, the economic aftermath of the virus, recent racial unrest, and climate change.
She also mentioned how voting for black people in the United States was about “honoring the ancestors.” Harris is the first woman of Jamaican and Indian descent to feature on a major party’s presidential ticket.
Harris’s one-day whirlwind swing through Ohio, delayed by a week after a COVID-19 outbreak on her team, coincides with the first Saturday of early in-person voting in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County.
“It is here in Cleveland, in Cuyahoga County, that you make the decisions, that you are part of the leadership that decides who will be in the White House,” she said.
Cuyahoga County is a deep-blue splash on Ohio’s mostly red county map, the state Trump won by 8 percentage points in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
Four years later and 10 days before Election Day, Trump leads Biden on average by less than a point, by RealClearPolitics’s count. Ohio is home to 18 Electoral College votes.
