Donald Trump Claims Harris 'Not Competent' Enough for Top Job, Plugs Ivanka
President Donald Trump said he would support a female president in the U.S. but suggested that his daughter Ivanka Trump would be a better fit for the job than vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Trump told supporters that Harris is 'not competent' enough to be the Democrats' bet as vice president at his campaign rally on Friday night.
Hindustan Times noted that, as he said this claim, some of his supporters screamed Ivanka's name, which Trump noticed. "They're all saying, 'We want Ivanka.' I don't blame you," he said.
Harris, 55, was hoping to be president until she dropped out of the race last year because of lack of popular support. She returned to political limelight after Democratic presidential bid Joe Biden picked her as running mate.
Trump Pokes Fun at Harris' Failed 2020 Run
Speaking to the crowd, Trump made fun of Harris' failed "run." He said she was not the kind of woman who could make history as the country's first female president, a Business Insider report said.
Trump said Harris started of her campaign "sort of strong."
"She's one of the favorites," he even noted.
But things didn't look up for the better for Harris, as Trump noted. In a period of a few months, Harris's numbers went down, he said.
Trump also pointed out the Harris dropped from the presidential race because "she wouldn't have gotten any votes."
He believed that Harris could emerge as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2024, to which he believed Harris would do a terrible job, said an NDTV report.
Trump stressed that he did want to see the first female in the country's top job. But he said he didn't "want to see the first woman president get into the position the way [Harris] would do it," said a report from The Daily Beast.
Harris was born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. She is the first Indian-American and first Black woman to have been picked by a major American political party for the leading ticket.
This campaign-rally is the first one Trump held after formally accepting his nomination at the Republican Convention on Thursday.
Trump Fresh from Convention to Persuade Females
The attacks on Harris came a day after the President wrapped up the Republican National Convention. In it, he had a large portion of the program dedicated to convincing female voters.
In the program, counselor Kellyanne Conway expressed how grateful she was that Trump helped in "elevating women."
A large portion also focused on convincing voters that he has worked on behalf of Black Americans.
It was a move to hopefully recover from the President's history of sexist and racist comments, said a CNNreport.
Hours before Trump delivered his acceptance speech at the RNC, Harris alleged that his policies were "a reckless disregard" for the dangers posed by a pandemic.
Harris claimed Trump failed as his top job as president: to protect the American people.
She was the California attorney general and also served as a district attorney in San Francisco.
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