Hogan calls Trump's comments on Harris's mental abilities 'outrageous and unacceptable'

Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan, a former Maryland governor, said in an interview Sunday that former President Trump's comments attacking Vice President Harris as mentally ill were “outrageous and unacceptable.”

In an interview on CBS News' “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Robert Costa pressed Hogan about Trump's comments and asked him if he thought Trump was fit to be president.

“Well, I think that's all outrageous and unacceptable. And I already called him, but once he was interviewed, he questioned her racial identity. But now he questions her mental capacity.”

Hogan, who is running as a moderate Republican in a blue state, added that Trump's comments were “an insult not just to the vice president, but to people who actually have mental illness.”

“And, as you know, I've said for years that President Trump's divisive comments could be dispensed with. I think he's his own worst enemy.” Hogan continued.

Hogan suggested that Trump's attack on Harris was a symptom of larger problems in politics and Washington.

“I'm very concerned about the toxic and divisive politics that are really going back and forth. People are tired of this. That's why they want to change Washington. ” he said.

Hogan's criticism follows recent attacks in which the former president attacked his opponent, Harris, as mentally incompetent.

“Kamala is mentally ill. If a Republican did what she did, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office for high felonies and misdemeanors, and rightfully so,” President Trump said this weekend. He spoke at a rally in Wisconsin. According to multiple reports.

“Joe Biden was mentally disabled. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And when you think about it, it's the people who allowed this to happen to our country. Only the mentally ill,” Trump added.

President Trump said earlier this week that Harris has “greater cognitive impairment” than President Biden, who ended his campaign amid public concerns about her mental acuity.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) said on CNN on Sunday: “I think it would be better to sue her because her policies are destroying the country,” said other members of the same party, who also criticized President Trump's comments. “I'm not saying she's crazy, but her policies are crazy,” he added.

Trump's press secretary, Stephen Chan, did not address Trump's comments or Hogan's criticism in a statement to The Hill, but called Harris “totally unfit,” as Chan suggested. They criticized the country's border strategy as inadequate.

“Kamala Harris has released a statement last week detailing the abhorrent dereliction of duty by murderers, rapists, and convicted criminals who flow into our country to fail to secure our borders and terrorize our communities. He is completely unfit to serve as president, as evidenced by shocking ICE statistics.''