vice president kamala harris hit on donald trump The size of the crowd, his refusal to debate again and his privileged background on Sunday, when he raised campaign cash in California and held a rousing rally at the same Nevada venue where the Republican candidate had appeared just two weeks earlier .
During the presidential debate, Harris appeared to criticize the former president when she said his boisterous speeches were causing people to leave his rallies early. And he’s continued it on the campaign trail.
The vice president told donors at a fundraiser in Los Angeles that, as she campaigns across the country, her “crowd is huge.” And then in front of a crowd of about 7,500 in Las Vegas, he again attacked Trump for being reluctant to debate, saying, “The American people have a right to hear us discuss the issues. And as you say here in Las Vegas, I’m totally in. I’m all in.”
Harris’s four-day West Coast trip had a dual purpose: He opened and closed it with a stop Sun Belt Battleground – Arizona and Nevada – Where the Vice President is trying to drum up support as Trump continues to attack him on illegal immigration. And his midterm stay in California was devoted to taking campaign contributions from donors in his blue home state.
With Friday’s visit to the border city of Douglas, Arizona, Harris also moved into an area Trump considers his turf — immigration. it was her First visit to the US-Mexico border on the Democratic presidential ticket since President Joe Biden took office.
Trump appeared displeased with Harris’ border visit in Arizona. The GOP leader spent two days ranting about the vice president during her rallies, escalating his personal attacks against her, claiming she was responsible for the “invasion” at the border, and stoking unfounded fears that if she was elected Then chaos will spread.
Harris responded to his insult the way she usually does. Trump called him “mentally weak”,
“We just watch the same old tired show from the same old tired playbook,” he told a crowd of donors in Los Angeles on Sunday, some chanting “boring!” Were shouting. In reply.
Hours later in Las Vegas, she took a dig at Trump for his “silver platter” background despite leading to six bankruptcies, saying, “I come from the middle class, and I’ll never forget where I come from. “
Harris warned that this race is as close as it could be, a “margin-of-error” race. But at a Los Angeles fundraiser he said: “The election is here and let me be clear. we are going to win.”
That show was packed with celebrities: Stevie Wonder, Keegan Michael-Key, Sterling K. Brown, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba and Lily Tomlin attended, and Halle Bailey and Alanis Morissette took the stage. This, and a fundraiser in San Francisco the day before, raised a combined $55 million for Harris’ campaign.
Harris was spending Sunday night in Las Vegas and planned to make a campaign stop in the city on Monday. But her office announced she would fly back to Washington earlier than expected and attend a briefing Damage caused by Hurricane Helen At the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Meanwhile, the vice president continues to garner Republican support. Former Arizona senator Jeff Flake has become the latest person to endorse him. He credited Harris with “excellent character and patriotism” and said he wanted a president who did not treat political opponents as enemies or try to subvert the will of the voters.
Flake, a longtime critic of the former president, joins a list of anti-Trump Republicans who have said they will vote for the Democratic ticket, including staunchly conservative former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz.
But Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan, a former Republican governor and sharp critic of Trump, said Harris has yet to earn his vote, even though Trump won’t get it.
In Nevada, where Harris held her latest rally, all voters automatically receive ballots by mail unless they opt out — a pandemic-era change that was set out in state law. That means most ballots could start going out in just a few weeks.
Harris will return to Las Vegas on Oct. 10 for a town hall with Hispanic voters. Both he and Trump have repeatedly campaigned in the city, highlighting that Nevada’s six electoral votes could play a key role in deciding an election expected to be extremely close.
Trump held his Las Vegas rally on Sept. 13 at the Expo World Market Center, where Harris spoke on Sunday. They have held events at the same venues Trump used in Milwaukee, Atlanta and suburban Phoenix.
During a campaign stop in Las Vegas in June, Trump promised to eliminate taxes on tips received by waiters, hotel workers and thousands of other service industry workers. Harris used her Las Vegas rally in August to make the same promise.
Removing federal taxes on tips entirely would likely require an act of Congress. Still, the Culinary Union of Nevada, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, has endorsed Harris.