President Trump said Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris was “disgusting” and “respectful” to Biden, offering his first reaction to Biden’s choice of Harris Tuesday. The Trump campaign had already prepared an ad, which went to Harris as part of the “radical left” and “false.”
Asked about Harris during Tuesday’s press release, the president said she wanted to reduce fracking, set up socialist drugs, raise funds for the army slash and raise taxes. The president also described Harris’ past actions as “disgusting”, saying that during Biden’s debates she was even “smarter” than Senator Elizabeth Warren, whom he called by the nickname “Pocahontas.” The president also said Harris was “disgusting” to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing of confirmation.
“She was very, very annoying, because – for one of the reasons that surprised me, she was very – she was probably worse than even Pocahontas against Joe Biden. She was very respectful of Joe Biden, and it’s hard to say one. choose who that is disrespectful, “the president said.
The ad that the president tweeted ahead of his briefing said: “Voters rejected Harris. They played a fake bad. But not Joe Biden. He’s not that smart. Biden calls himself a transition candidate. He surrenders the giant to Kamala while putting together the radicals. embrace left. Slow Joe and Phony Kamala. Perfect together. Traffic for America. ”
Harris fell out of the presidential race before any votes were cast in the Democratic primaries after they struggled to raise enough money.
According to records of donations in California, Mr. Trump recently donated to Harris’ 2013 campaign for attorney general in California.
The president began his briefing by announcing that the federal government has reached an agreement with Moderna to deliver 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine as it becomes available. The Department of Health and Human Services has already purchased 100 million doses of the vaccine.
The president has briefed the press almost daily in recent weeks to defend his administration’s response to the corandavirus pandemic. Mr. Trump signed an executive order and three memoranda Saturday was meant to provide economic aid to people struggling during the pandemic, with additional benefits for the unemployed and tax cuts for workers.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suggested Tuesday that the additional benefits for unemployment for coronavirus could begin in two weeks after “minor technical changes” were made to Mr Executive’s memorandum. Trump on unemployment benefits.
At the White House, Kudlow signaled that those states would not have to provide an additional $ 100 per week per worker to trigger the additional weekly $ 300 federal benefit. Instead, the state’s regular unemployment benefits will now count toward the $ 100 per week requirement to be eligible for the federal $ 300. Kudlow, for example, said the median benefit of being paid by states is $ 400, so the federal government “would pay $ 300 of federal benefits, which equates to $ 700 per person, per week.”
Grace Segers contributed to this report.
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