Former President Trump attacked Vice President Harris at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Saturday after she campaigned at the same venue earlier this week.
“It’s going to take effort to define her,” Trump told supporters at Georgia State University, before appearing to walk back his remarks and saying, “I don’t even want to define her.”
“I just want to say who she is. She’s a frightening being,” he added. “She will destroy our country.”
The former president has hit the numbers on a host of issues, from the economy to immigration to his record as a prosecutor. His latest attacks on his opponent, including claiming Harris has a “low IQ,” came after he vowed to “unleash hell” on Harris at a rally in an online post on Friday.
“About this time tomorrow, Evil Kamala’s worst nightmare will come true,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
Hours before Saturday’s rally, President Trump pulled out of a debate with Harris that had been scheduled for ABC News on Sept. 10, instead proposing a debate on Fox News on Sept. 4. Harris, who was officially named the top Democratic candidate for November on Friday, said she would stick with the ABC debate originally scheduled between Presidents Trump and Biden.
But the vice president wasn’t the only focus of Trump’s attacks on Saturday. Ahead of the rally, both online and in front of a crowd in Atlanta, the former president slammed Atlanta’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.
“Atlanta has become a carnage under these woke radical left policies. The governor needs to stand up and do something,” Trump said at a rally also attended by his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).
The Republican candidate also said Kemp is “very bad for the Republican Party.”
Kemp previously urged Trump to focus on unity. Social Media Platform XThis comes after President Trump criticized the governor over his economic and crime policies in Georgia.
“Brian Kemp should be focusing on fighting crime instead of fighting Unity and Republicans! Georgia has a horrible crime rate, Atlanta has the worst crime rate and we have an average economy,” Trump said. wrote Truth SocialHe added that the Republican governor would not have been able to defeat former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams without his support.
“He and his wife didn’t think he was going to win. I said, ‘You tell me you’re going to win.’ Then he won and he celebrated. And his wife said, ‘Thank you, we can never make it up to you.’ Now she says she’s not endorsing me and she’s going to ‘write in Brian Kemp’s name. Well, I don’t want her endorsement and I don’t want his endorsement,” the former president added.
Kemp responded to X by saying he was focused on defeating Democrats in November and wasn’t taking the “petty” insults.
“My focus is on winning the election in November and saving our country from Kamala Harris and the Democrats. I have no intention of making personal insults, attacking Republicans or dwelling on the past,” he wrote. “Mr. President, please don’t do the same and drag my family down with you.”
Trump and Kemp have had a tumultuous relationship in recent years, with Kemp pushing back hard against Trump’s claims of election fraud after Biden won Georgia in 2020.
The former president has repeatedly attacked him since then, and Kemp said he did not vote for Trump in Georgia’s Republican primary in May.
