“I’m a better-looking guy than Kamala”: Donald Trump’s unscripted moments are getting more and more out of control
“Do you mind if I stop talking for a second?” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked his Pennsylvania crowd at a campaign rally on Saturday—in less than four minutes. into his speech.
What followed was a lengthy, meandering speech in which Trump asserted that he was more attractive than his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Time magazine latest cover There was a sketch of Harris with the caption “Her moment,” accompanied by an article by a senior reporter. Charlotte Changes. Image by Harris, illustration by Neil Jamiesonfades into an image of supporters holding campaign signs. When Trump first saw the image, he claimed, “I said, ‘Is that Sophia Loren?’ I can’t, who could that be? ‘Is that Elizabeth Taylor?’”
He then called Loren beautiful before warning the US Senate candidate Dave McCormickTrump campaigned with, that “never call a woman beautiful because that will be the end of your political career.”
Trump then went after a “Ronald Reagan speechwriter,” deliberately The Wall Street Journal journalist Peggy Noonan. Noonan wrote about Harris’s appearance in recent weeks“Her beauty, combined with the warmth that everyone who has known her for many years speaks of, combined to create one thing: radiance,” said the author.
“She said something that caught my attention,” Trump began, apparently referring to Noonan’s columns. “She said Kamala has a big advantage, she’s a very beautiful woman. She’s a beautiful woman.” The crowd booed.
“But I say I am much more beautiful than she is. Much more beautiful. Much more beautiful. I am a more beautiful person than Kamala,” Trump continued, to cheers.
When the Democratic National Convention begin In Chicago on Monday, Trump and his team trying to hone an effective defense against what has become a vibrant movement to elect Harris and Tim WalzMinnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee. But Saturday’s remarks illustrate the challenge Trump campaign advisers face in pushing a strategy that requires Trump to focus on policy, rather than downplaying Harris’ intelligence and racial identity or making other personal insults.
Trump’s comments on Saturday criticizing Harris’ appeal were the latest attack in a racist and bigoted campaign against the first black and South Asian woman to be chosen as a major party’s nominee.
In an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists in late July, Trump false statement that Harris had misunderstood her multiracial identity. “She has always had Indian roots and she just promotes her Indian roots,” he said. “I didn’t know she was black until years ago when she accidentally passed as black and now she wants to be known as black.”
Harris is “not smart enough” to do a press conference and be “barely competent,” Trump also said. Additionally, according to reports from New York Timeshe is said to be call Harris has been called a “slut” in private several times.
On the Eve of the DNC, a New CBS News/YouGov survey The two candidates are neck and neck in battleground states, with Harris leading by three points nationally. The poll found that much of the divide among voters is gender-related. Women responded more likely see Harris as someone who “fights for people like you.” Only 29% of men said Harris would fight “a lot” for people like them, while 43% of men responded that Donald Trump would.
And when asked whether efforts to promote gender equality between men and women have gone too far, Men and Republicans are more likely to say yesOnly 10% of Republicans said these efforts were not progressing enough.
