With just 100 days before election day, Donald Trump called Vice President Kamala Harris a “crazy liberal,” and she vowed to overcome his “wild lies” as they each unveiled their presidential campaign attack lines on Saturday.
Trump addressed a bitcoin conference in Tennessee earlier in the day, and on Saturday night he held a rally in Minnesota with the goal of turning the traditionally Democratic midwest state into a battlefield.
“This November, the American people are going to reject Kamala Harris’s crazy liberal extremism in a massive landslide,” the Republican told the crowd assembled in a hockey arena.
He quickly took aim at several positions Harris took during her 2020 Democratic primary campaign, some of which she has since walked back, such as a desire to ban fracking or majorly overhaul the criminal justice system.
Calling Harris a “radical left lunatic,” Trump also hammered her and President Joe Biden’s record on illegal immigration, inflation and crime — all of which saw significant spikes during their term but have returned to historical averages in recent months.
In his 90-minute speech, the populist billionaire also repeated pledges to “have the largest deportation effort” in US history and end taxation of tips, while repeating unfounded allegations that his 2020 election loss had been “rigged.”
Meanwhile, Harris on Saturday held a fundraising event in Massachusetts with celebrity guests including singer-songwriter James Taylor and cellist Yoyo Ma.
“We are the underdogs in this race, but this is a people-powered campaign,” she told the crowd at the event, which her campaign said would net $1.4 million.
“Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about my record. And some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it’s just plain weird,” she said.
The Harris campaign has adopted “weird” as a new catch-all for describing Trump’s aggressive rhetoric.
His attacks, repeated on Saturday, include allegations that Harris wants to legalize killing newborn babies — a falsehood stemming from the vice president’s fervent support of abortion rights.
In her campaign against Trump, Harris has made the issue her platform. Trump’s three conservative Supreme Court selections contributed to the 2022 repeal of the country’s right to the procedure.
The six conservative justices were hailed individually by Trump on Saturday, “for the wisdom and courage they showed on this long-term, very contentious issue.”
Former California prosecutor Harris also issued a challenge to Trump to a debate after his team declared this week that he would not consent to continuing their previously arranged televised face-off with Biden on September 10.
“I hope he reconsiders because we have a lot to talk about,” she said.
