Vice President Kamala Harris — the Democratic Party’s new pick for this year’s presidential election — responded Thursday (at journalists’ urging) to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago press conference.
Trump, the GOP nominee for the year, held a wide-ranging discussion that touched on familiar complaints and bemoaned Harris’ ascent to the front of the Democrats’ presidential election ambitions at all, though there is no indication — contrary to Trump’s claims — that it is somehow unconstitutional for her to replace Biden.
President Joe Biden dropped out of the race after weeks of questions about his age, and Democratic convention delegates — following Biden also endorsing Harris, right away — moved en masse to the latter. In any event, Harris was already on the ticket when Democratic primary voters were casting ballots for Biden.
“Can you comment on some of his other criticisms? He made a whole litany of them today,” said a journalist to Harris while in Michigan.
“I was too busy talking to voters. I didn’t hear them,” she told the media.
Trump, though he’s speaking in Montana on Friday, hasn’t been on the campaign trail much at all, apparently waiting for the end of August — after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) — to ramp up his rally appearances. In the meantime, Trump running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) is picking up the slack, though none of that is proving enough to stem the tide of poll results that are promising for Democrats, showing leads nationally and in key states.
Harris and her own new running mate, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, rallied at a United Auto Workers (UAW) gathering on Thursday, not long after the union bucked Trump and endorsed Harris, who also recently scored an endorsement from hospitality workers union UNITE HERE — which also said its operation was intending to reach over three million doors in Harris’ support.
