Former President Donald Trump criticized how Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Thursday afternoon.
The reporter asked Trump to clarify what he meant when he said on Truth Social that it would be unconstitutional for Harris to run to succeed President Joe Biden.
He replied:
We have a Constitution. It’s a very important document. And we live by it. She doesn’t have the right to vote. I’m very happy to run against her. I’m not going to complain from that standpoint. And I hate defending her. [Biden], but he didn’t want to go. He wanted to try and see if he could win. After the debate, they said, “You’re not going to win. You can’t win. You’re out.” At first they said it nicely, and he wouldn’t go. And you know that better than anybody. If you think about it, at first they said they were going to go back on the ballot again, go through the primary system, the quick primary system. They had no choice but to do that, and then it all just disappeared. And they just picked the first person to be out. She was the first loser. Okay, so that’s why we call her the “first loser.” She was the first person to drop out during the primary system, the Democratic primary system. And she dropped out. She had no votes, no support. By the way, she was a bad debater. A very bad debater. That’s not what I’m looking forward to, but she was a bad debater. Obviously a bad debater. She didn’t make it to Iowa. And then, for some reason — and I know he regrets it, and you regret it too — he picked her and then she turned her back on him. She was working with people who wanted to get rid of him. But the fact that you could get no votes at all in a primary system and lose — in other words, there are 14 or 15 candidates and she’s the first to drop out and then be picked to run for president — that actually seems unconstitutional to me. Probably not.
Harris has not given a press conference or interview in the 18 days since she became a presidential candidate.
Trump described Harris as “not as smart as Biden, but worse.”
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