{"id":108512,"date":"2024-09-30T00:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108512"},"modified":"2024-09-30T00:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T17:08:50","slug":"some-republicans-distance-themselves-from-trumps-attack-on-harris-mental-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108512","title":{"rendered":"Some Republicans distance themselves from Trump&#8217;s attack on Harris&#8217; mental fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Republicans on Sunday sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump\u2019s latest insults of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-wisconsin-immigration-visit-arrest-0810efccefc8b094756d0c46f927b7dc\">during a rambling weekend rally in Wisconsin<\/a><\/span> in which he called her \u201cmentally disabled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump escalated his personal attacks on the vice president during what was billed as a speech on immigration following Harris\u2019 trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden became mentally impaired,\u201d Trump said. \u201cKamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country. Anybody would know this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-harris-nabj-black-voters-race-8d3c811ec6369aadef00e25e29ec0fab\">has already falsely claimed Harris \u201cturned Black\u201d<\/a><\/span> and regularly insults her as \u201cstupid,\u201d \u201cweak,\u201d \u201cdumb as a rock\u201d and \u201clazy.\u201d With just over a month left before the presidential election, his allies pushed him publicly and privately to talk instead about the economy, immigration and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country,\u201d said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d when asked about Trump\u2019s comments. \u201cThey\u2019re crazy liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he approved of the remarks, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., sidestepped during an interview on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Kamala Harris is the wrong choice for America,\u201d said Emmer, who is helping Trump\u2019s running mate JD Vance prepare for Tuesday\u2019s vice-presidential debate. \u201cI think Kamala Harris is actually as bad or worse as the administration that we\u2019ve witnessed for the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed, Emmer said: \u201cI think we should stick to the issues. The issues are, Donald Trump fixed it once. They broke it. He\u2019s going to fix it again. Those are the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, running for the Senate as a moderate Republican, brought up Trump\u2019s false claims that Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, had previously downplayed her Black heritage. Harris attended Howard University, a historically Black college, and has identified as both Black and South Asian consistently throughout her political career. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already called him out when he had the one interview where he was questioning her racial identity, and now he\u2019s questioning her mental competence,\u201d Hogan told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s insulting not only to the vice president but to people who actually do have mental disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Harris would be the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to be president. She has not commented on Trump\u2019s recent attacks but has said when asked about other comments that it was the \u201c <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harris-trump-race-black-voters-3cca948283abb1b649600f4f0b71d306\">same old show<\/a><\/span>. The same tired playbook we\u2019ve heard for years with no plan on on how he would address the needs of the American people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-press-conference-9af8036585d6727b6bb07008c0690cdf\">Trump said last month that he was \u201centitled\u201d<\/a><\/span> to personal attacks against Harris. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the personal attacks, I\u2019m very angry at her because of what she\u2019s done to the country,\u201d he told a news conference then. \u201cI\u2019m very angry at her that she would weaponize the justice system against me and other people, very angry at her. 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