The Kamala Harris presidential campaign tore into former President Donald Trump after the latter appeared this Friday at a Turning Point USA event as the two candidates gear up for what’s now expected will be their general election face-off this year.
Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week after the withdrawal this past weekend of President Joe Biden following weeks of questions about his age. Biden endorsed Harris to take his place leading the party into this year’s presidential election, and she quickly assembled the support necessary from Democratic convention delegates to start down that path. She also started racking up endorsements from prominent, elected Democrats and assembling grassroots support in the form of donations and volunteering sign-ups.
The Harris campaign’s statement was credited to spokesperson James Singer. Trump “went on and on and on,” Singer said, sounding “like someone you wouldn’t want to sit near at a restaurant — let alone be President of the United States.”
“America can do better than the bitter, bizarre, and backward looking delusions of criminal Donald Trump,” Singer said. “Vice President Kamala Harris offers a vision for America’s future focused on freedom, opportunity, and security.”
Harris herself has already taken to the campaign trail as she’s taken over the helm of the Democratic Party in the 2024 election, contrasting her own experience as a prosecutor — both in courtrooms and as attorney general of California — with Trump’s history, which includes a litany of serious legal problems like his felony criminal case in New York City in which sentencing is set, for now, to take place in September. It was delayed to allow for involved parties to grapple with potential ramifications of a Supreme Court ruling on so-called presidential immunity.