Donald Trump on Kamala Harris: ‘She Won’t Be Too Tough’ to Defeat
Published by
Editorial Staff on July 24, 2024
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, expressed confidence that Vice President Kamala Harris will be an easy opponent in the 2024 election, criticizing her record as President Biden’s border czar and her previous failed presidential campaign.
During a press call, Trump
highlighted the influx of migrants under Harris’s oversight and referred to her as “politically weak,” citing her poor performance in the 2020 primaries where she dropped out before the Iowa caucus.
“She ran for president, and she failed badly. She never even made it to Iowa,” Trump said.
“She started off, she had little name value, from a large place, as you know, from California, and she had a little name value. The name value didn’t last long because she ended up dropping like a rock as people got to know her. She was decimated in debates by Tulsi, who I know really hit her hard, and others hit her hard. She was decimated in the debates.”
“She was, by far, the nastiest to Joe Biden, and that’s why I was surprised that he took her. There was nobody nastier than her,” Trump added.
“She played the race card at a level that you rarely see. She really was very nasty to him, and then he picked her — so I don’t get that exactly. Now they act like they’re great friends, but you don’t really recover from that. I wouldn’t recover easily from that. I wouldn’t have picked her.”
He characterized her as
“much more radical” than Biden and criticized her policies, suggesting that her campaign style would lead to similar failures as before.
“I think she is going to be, hopefully, frankly for this country, I think similar things are going to happen to her that happened to her before,” Trump said. “She’s been on the big stage. She has started off at a high level for false reasons since nobody really knew who she was. And, within a period of four weeks, or five or six weeks in, she was decimated and never made it to Iowa — the first state — and never even came close to me. She went down to practically zero. So, if she campaigns that way now, and this is only going to be tougher — although she does have a lot of support from the fake news, there’s no question about that — but if she campaigns the way she campaigned then, I suspect she won’t be too tough.”
“She’s the same as Biden but much more radical,” Trump added. “This country doesn’t want a radical left person to destroy it. She’s far more open borders than he is. She wants things that nobody wants. You take a look at the car mandate — the electric car mandate, everything. Take a look at San Francisco now compared to before she became the district attorney, and you see what she’ll do to our country. I think she’ll be easier than Biden because he was slightly more mainstream but not by much.”
Trump indicated he would be willing to debate Harris, although it remains unclear if such a debate will occur.