Soon after former US President Donald Trump issued a final challenge to the Christian conservative crowd, saying if they vote for him on Election Day, they will never be forced to vote again, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign team hit back at Trump, saying he intends to dismantle democracy, US-based ABC News reported.
The Harris campaign called Trump’s comments that if Christians voted this time they would never have to vote again an “attempt to end democracy” by Trump.
“I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote. Christians, get out and vote this time. You won’t have to do this anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fine,” ABC News quoted Trump as saying.
Trump said he loves Christians because he himself is a Christian.
“Christians, I love you. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you won’t have to vote again, we’ll fix it so much you won’t have to vote at all,” Trump was quoted as saying by ABC News.
When Vice President Harris says this election is about freedom, she means it. Our democracy is under attack by the criminal Donald Trump,” said James Singer, Harris’ presidential spokesman.
“Donald Trump wants to take America backwards, toward the politics of hate, chaos, and fear — this November, America will unite with Vice President Kamala Harris to stop him.”
Trump reiterated the power of prayer, which saved his life during an assassination attempt two weeks ago, ABC News reports.
He said, “We want to thank every single believer in this room for their prayers and your incredible support. I really appreciate it. Something was working, we know, something was working. I stand before you tonight, thankful for the power of prayer and the grace of Almighty God.”
Many took his comments as a reference to when Trump said he would be a dictator but only on “day one.” People said Trump had said he would never leave the White House.
Former President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the US presidential election, before a conservative audience in Florida, claiming she does not like Jews and Israel.
Trump recently criticized Harris for refusing to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress. “She doesn’t like Jewish people, she doesn’t like Israel,” he accused of Harris. Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is also Jewish.
In his address Friday at Turning Point USA’s Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump asked the crowd, “Does everybody here understand that the radical left-wing ideology that Kamala espouses is actually militantly hostile to Americans of faith?” Trump called Harris “the most incompetent, unpopular, and extreme left-wing vice president in American history.”
The Republican candidate also called Harris “worthless.”
“Three weeks ago she was a useless woman,” Trump said. “She was a useless woman, a failed vice president.” Kamala Harris’ campaign immediately responded to “Trump’s strange speech.”
A statement released by his campaign said, “Donald Trump … insulted the faith of Jewish and Catholic Americans, lied about the election (again) … bragged about repealing Roe, proposed cutting billions of dollars to education, announced he would appoint more extremist judges, revealed he plans to fill Trump’s second term with more criminals like himself, attacked legitimate voting.”
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