President Donald Trump said Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris “can’t” become the first woman president because she “comes in through the back door.”
“This is not what people want and she comes in through the backdoor, this would not be what people want, especially because it’s her,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Thursday evening.
Trump has dug into Joe Biden’s running mate ever since she became the first Black woman to be on a major party’s presidential ticket.
President Donald Trump continued his line of attack toward Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Thursday evening, claiming “if a woman is going to become the first president of the United States, it can’t be her.”
“That would rip our country apart,” Trump told his supporters during a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin. “This is not what people want and she comes in through the backdoor, this would not be what people want, especially because it’s her.”
The president drew attention to Harris’ time on the 2020 Democratic campaign trail and her feuding with her then-rival, now the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, on the debate stage.
“That’s no way for a woman to become the first president, that’s for sure,” Trump said.
“I said brilliantly, ‘He will never pick her because she was too terrible to him,’” he added. “But she picked him and hopefully that’s going to be history. It’s not going to matter.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Harris as his running mate last month, and since then Trump and his allies have coalesced to deride the California senator, attempting to cast her as a “radical socialist” while also calling her “nasty,” “disrespectful” and “not competent.”
Harris is the first woman of colour on a major party ticket, and Trump has floated false birther theories because of that fact, questioning her eligibility to serve as vice president as the child of immigrant parents, born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother. In reality, Harris meets all qualifications to be a vice president; she is a US born citizen who’s over the eligiblity age of 35. Trump previously pushed similarly baseless accusations against then-President Barack Obama.
Harris will publicly face off with Vice President Mike Pence for the first time in their only debate, scheduled for Oct. 7 at the University of Utah. The event will be moderated USA Today’s Washington bureau chief Susan Page.
“I don’t want to put pressure on him but wait till you see what Mike Pence does to her in the debate,” Trump said on Thursday.
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