Kamala Harris: Trump should be disqualified over Cheney comments

On Thursday, Trump attacked Cheney at a campaign event, calling the anti-Trump politician a “war hawk” and proposing putting her on the front lines of the battle “with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”

“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are pointed in her face,” Trump said at an event with Tucker Carlson. “They’re all war hawks when they sit in a nice building in Washington and say, ‘Oh, gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the enemy’s mouth.’”

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Democrats have widely said Trump’s comments amount to putting Cheney in front of a firing squad, and the vice president defended Cheney as a “true patriot” in a speech on Friday in Wisconsin.

“This should be disqualifying,” Harris said. “However, Trump is increasingly someone who views his political opponents as the enemy. He is permanently out for revenge and becomes increasingly unstable and unhinged. His list of enemies has grown longer, his rhetoric has become more extreme, and he is even less focused than before on the needs, concerns and challenges facing the American people.”

Earlier in the day, Harris’ campaign said internal polling shows the vice president leading Trump by double digits among a critical voting group.

Senior Harris campaign officials held a press call Friday afternoon, saying Trump’s escalating rhetoric over the past week shows that late, undecided voters are now backing Harris ahead of the election. Election Day.

Officials specifically pointed to comments about Puerto Rico during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, his suggestion that Cheney be forced to attend active combat, and Trump’s promise to care for women “whether they like it or not’.

“It is clear that Trump is closing out his presidential campaign calling his fellow Americans an enemy from within,” a campaign official said, continuing a theme that Harris himself has been trying to make clear of late. “All of these things are sinking into the minds of the American people, and in the final days of his campaign, he’s clearly focused, as the vice president has said, on his enemies list, which is growing, and you know, his rhetoric is increasingly extreme, and he is not focused on the American people.

The RealClearPolitics The polling average shows Trump leading Harris by an average of 1 percentage point in seven critical battleground states, contradicting the internal numbers the Harris campaign touted on Friday.

“We believe the early voting data puts us in a strong position, especially if there are late undeciders,” the official added.

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Trump himself continued to go after Cheney as he campaigned in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday.

He has previously courted Arab-American voters by saying her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, incited President George W. Bush to war in the Middle East after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Harris would mean a new war against Muslim-majority countries and a third world war, he said.

“She is a war hawk who wants to kill people unnecessarily,” Trump said Friday of Liz Cheney, surrounded by Arab-American residents. “If she had to do it herself, and she had to face the consequences of the battle, she wouldn’t do it, so it’s easy for her to talk, but she wouldn’t do it. Actually, she’s a disgrace.”