Donald Trump claimed that Kamala was chosen as the Democratic candidate “because they want to be politically correct” and accused the White House candidate of being “lazy” and “slow.”
The Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, launched new personal attacks against his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, considering her “lazy” and questioning her intelligence.
At an event Tuesday in Miami – before an audience of Latino voters – Trump said Harris was “Lazy as hell” for missing a campaign eventignoring that the vice president was recording television interviews in Washington.
Trump also addressed Kamala Harris as “slow” and with an “intelligence quotient” [quoficiente de inteligência] low”.
Later that day, during a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, Trump called Harris a “stupid person” and asked: “Does she drink? Is she drugged?.
However, Trump has signaled that he will do more to avoid referring to Harris in the remaining two weeks before Election Day on November 5, despite pleas from his allies who have repeatedly suggested that the Republican candidate should avoid attacks. personal, including references to your ethnic origin. and gender.
Trump, however, has repeatedly suggested that Harris, the former California attorney general and U.S. senator, became the Democratic nominee because of her ethnicity and gender.
“She is a candidate because they want to be politically correct”Trump argued.
Still, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said the former president’s criticism “has nothing to do with his ethnicity or gender.”
Trump has questioned the work ethic of several opponents throughout his career: in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, he accused then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden of campaigning from his basement, even as Trump continued to hold large public events. ; and in 2016 he accused Democrat Hillary Clinton of being physically weak and lacking energy.
Before that, the federal government sued Trump for allegedly discriminating against black apartment-seekers in the 1970s.
In the 1980s, Trump bought a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty after five black and Latino teenagers, known as the “Central Park Five,” were accused of raping and beat a white citizen. woman in New York.
The use of the term “lazy” to describe Harris, who is black and of South Asian family descent, evokes stereotypical designations that are used negatively against African Americans, classifying them as lazy, unsophisticated, submissive or inept.
In several of his personal attacks against Harris, including a reference to alcohol consumption, Trump appears to be referring to falsehoods or unsubstantiated accusations that have been spread on social media by far-right groups.
Source: Observadora
