Vice President Kamala Harris attacked former President Donald Trump on Thursday for saying he would “protect” women from violent illegal immigrants — with the Democratic presidential nominee blaming his opponent for “not understanding his agency” to protect himself. ” Accused of.
Trump, 78, made the comments while wearing a garbage man vest at a rally in Green Bay, Wis., shortly after getting into a dump truck Retired President Biden on Wednesday to troll his supporters’ description As in “garbage” and vowed to protect women “whether women like it or not.”
“Listen, that’s absolutely right – I think it’s really very disrespectful to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their rights, their rights and their ability to make decisions about their lives, including their own bodies. It is,” Harris, 60, told reporters in Wisconsin.
“This is the latest in a series of revelations by the former president about how he thinks about women and their agency — whether he has said, as he has said, that women should be punished for their choices, whether he He has talked about his pride in snatching away fundamental rights from women.”
Harris and her campaign posted a briefly clipped version of Trump’s rally comments on social media, which received millions of views just days before the November 5 election.
Trump made the comments as he criticized Harris’s performance as Biden’s point person on reducing illegal immigration, which hit three consecutive annual highs before declining following Biden’s June order to halt the processing of asylum claims. Reached the level.
“Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children is nowhere near the Oval Office,” the Republican presidential nominee said at the rally.
Trump said that his advisers had urged him not to say publicly that he wanted to “protect” women and told him, “Sir, please don’t say that… It’s very inappropriate for you to say that “
“I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. I’m going to protect them from the immigrants coming in;'” Trump said. We are going to save ourselves from those foreign countries who want to fire missiles at us.
The former president said: “We are going to protect our women at the border. We are going to protect our women, and at the same time, we are going to protect our men and our children. We’re going to protect everybody.”
At the end of his remarks, Trump asked, to cheers from the crowd, “Is there a woman in this stadium who wants to be escorted by the president?”
Polls show an incredibly tight race between Trump and Harris in key swing states, with the vice president holding a huge lead among women and Trump leading among men. Both campaigns and their outside supporters are attempting to turn out low-propensity voters who may be motivated by last-minute appeals and perceived slights.
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