In a speech Friday night at an event hosted by the conservative Christian group Turning Point Action, former President Trump attempted to convey several messages to Vice President Harris, whose approval ratings are soaring, but mostly settled on positioning the likely Democratic nominee as more liberal than President Biden.
Trump also repeatedly called Harris a “bad girl” and described her as a failed vice president, similar to how he described Democratic nominee Biden as a failed president.
“She makes Bernie Sanders look like a moderate,” Trump said, linking her to his calls to cut police budgets, ban fracking and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A Harris campaign official told The Hill on Friday that Harris would not attempt to ban fracking if she wins the White House in November.
Trump also said Harris would “appoint hundreds of far-left judges to force her crazy San Francisco liberal values on people all across America.”
“You all know what happened to San Francisco. 15 years ago it was probably the best city in the country, and now it’s almost unlivable,” Trump said.
Harris previously served as San Francisco’s district attorney, a position that ended more than a decade ago, before going on to become the state’s attorney general and senator.
“She will appoint hard-core Marxists to the Supreme Court and destroy our Constitution, which violates all religious freedoms in our country,” Trump said. “I’m sure she will.”
“She’s going to do everything she can to add as many justices to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Trump added. “We don’t want that to happen, do we?”
Harris’ campaign responded to Trump’s speech in a statement, saying the former president “generally sounded like someone you wouldn’t want to sit next to in a restaurant, let alone as President of the United States.”
“Tonight, Donald Trump couldn’t pronounce words, insulted the faith of Jewish and Catholic Americans, lied (again) about the election and lied about other things, bragged about repealing Roe, proposed billions of dollars in cuts to the education budget, announced he would appoint more extremist judges, revealed his plans to create more criminals like himself in a second term, attacked legitimate voting, went on and on, and was generally just someone you wouldn’t want to sit next to in a restaurant, let alone become President of the United States,” said Harris campaign spokesman James Singer. It said in a statement It was posted on social platform X on Friday.
Polls suggest the race between Trump and Harris could be close, and there is growing evidence that Harris is closing the gap between Trump and Biden.
A Fox News poll released on Friday found Trump and Harris tied in the key states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, and Harris trailing Trump by one point in Wisconsin.
Democrats are hopeful that Harris can be more competitive in three other states: Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
All six of those states were won by Biden in 2000, but by the time he dropped out of the race he was trailing Trump in all of them.
