BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Rep. Byron Donald (R-Fla.) slammed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris during a Zoom call with grassroots activists in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, calling her campaign “empty.”
“She’s not in a coma like Joe Biden, but what are her policies?” Donald asked rhetorically, repeatedly criticizing Vice President Harris, 59, and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, 60, for refusing to take questions from the media.
“The Harris-Waltz campaign has no substance,” the 45-year-old two-term Florida senator said.
Former President Donald Trump “Trump Force 47” conceptVolunteers joined a conference call to listen to Donald and Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas, who urged organizers, known as “captains,” to focus on framing the issues.
“We’re sending the right message,” Tabas said. “Americans are facing terrible economic times and worry they’ll run out of money before payday.”
Donald used the opportunity to challenge how issues like abortion and “threats to democracy” are often framed by Democrats.
Donald said Harris’ campaign was the “biggest threat to democracy” because she became the party’s nominee without winning a single vote in the primary.
Donald said that if President Biden, 81,’s policies are effective, he would still be the Democratic nominee.
He added that Republicans should not be so defensive in their messaging on the abortion issue.
“Donald Trump has given us the power to choose our own destiny,” he instructed organizers to tell voters as they debate this critical issue.
“Do you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing?”
The 78-year-old senator also spoke about the need to get Pennsylvanians who haven’t voted in years or even decades to vote for Trump — a demographic the former president successfully reactivated in 2016.
Many of these voters live in what Donald calls “The T,” a geographic region that represents the heavily Republican, rural parts of the state outside Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the Lehigh Valley.
Before Trump selected Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, Donald was one of several prominent Republican figures who exchanged vetting papers with the Trump campaign, sources told The Washington Post in June.
