Harris cites Trump greater than two dozen instances when pressed for coverage points in CNN city corridor

Vice President Kamala Harris talked about former President Trump by title greater than two dozen instances throughout her CNN city corridor on Wednesday, together with when pressed about particular insurance policies she would institute if elected to the White Home. 

Fox Information discovered that in the course of the CNN city corridor in Chester, Pennsylvania, Harris talked about Trump by title 26 instances, whereas Trump was talked about general by moderator Anderson Cooper or viewers members a complete of 43 instances. The CNN city corridor kicked off at 9 p.m. on Wednesday and wrapped up round 10:15 p.m.

Harris was pressed on points comparable to her border insurance policies the final three and a half years as vice chairman, and the way she would sort out immigration in a different way if she was elected president. At one level, Cooper pressed Harris on her help of a bipartisan invoice that would offer funding for a border wall that she beforehand lambasted as a “silly” thought when promoted by Trump throughout his administration. 

“Let’s speak about this compromise invoice that you simply wish to go if you’re elected. You stated that is going to be a precedence. It consists of $650 million in funding for the border wall. That is one thing Republicans wished, that was a part of the compromise. Below Donald Trump, you criticized the wall greater than 50 instances. You referred to as it ‘silly, ineffective, and a medieval vainness undertaking.’ Is a border wall silly?,” Cooper requested Harris. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as CNN moderator Anderson Cooper seems on throughout a Presidential City Corridor occasion at Solar Middle Studios in Aston, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)

Harris pivoted from instantly answering the query to citing Trump. 

“Let’s speak about Donald Trump and that border wall,” Harris stated whereas laughing. “So bear in mind, Donald Trump stated Mexico would pay for it. Come on, they did not. How a lot of that wall did he construct? I feel the final quantity I noticed was about 2%. After which when it got here time for him to do a photograph op, you understand, the place he did it? Within the a part of the wall that President Obama constructed.”

“So you do not assume it is silly anymore?” Cooper later requested. 

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“I feel what he did and the way he did it was, didn’t make a lot sense as a result of he really did not do a lot of something. I simply talked about that wall, proper? We simply talked about it. He did not really do a lot of something,” she responded, not citing Trump by title, however referring to his management as president. 

This aerial image exhibits the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona, on Dec. 8, 2023. (Valerie Macon/AFP through Getty Photos)

At one other level, Cooper requested Harris about her plans to sort out reported value gouging by firms, with Harris answering that she “took this situation on” when she served as California legal professional normal earlier than admonishing Trump for not attending the city corridor. CNN held the city corridor after proposing a second presidential debate between Harris and Trump for Oct. 23. Harris accepted the talk, however Trump declined, spurring the community to host a city corridor as a substitute. 

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“By the best way, once more, Donald Trump needs to be right here tonight to speak with you and reply your questions. He isn’t, he refused to return. However perceive that a part of his plan is to place in place a nationwide gross sales tax of a minimum of 20% on on a regular basis items and requirements, and that, by economist estimates — impartial economists — would value you, because the American client and taxpayer, a further $4,000 a yr,” Harris claimed. 

Harris was additionally requested about codifying Roe v. Wade, which sparked the vice chairman to once more assault Trump whereas signaling help to finish the filibuster. 

“You’ve got talked about codifying Roe v Wade. That will require 60 votes within the Senate, a majority of the Home. That is a giant— that is a giant leap. We do not have that but. If that is not potential to codify it within the Home, what do you do?” Cooper requested.

“I feel we want to check out the filibuster, to be trustworthy with you. However the actuality of it’s this, let’s speak about how we bought right here. When Donald Trump was president, he hand-selected three members of america Supreme Courtroom with the intention that they’d undo the protections of Roe v Wade,” she stated. “And so they did as he meant. And now, in 20 states, we have now abortion bans.” 

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Harris was instantly requested about Trump a handful of instances in the course of the debate — together with her solutions included within the whole depend of 26 Trump mentions — most notably when Cooper requested her about an X publish evaluating Trump to Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler. Earlier Wednesday, former Trump administration chief of employees John Kelly claimed to the media that Trump praised “Hitler’s generals” for his or her loyalty, which Harris repeated in an X publish that day. 

“If the president of america, the commander in chief, is saying to his generals, in essence, ‘Why cannot you be extra like Hitler’s generals?’ Anderson, come on. This can be a severe, severe situation. And we all know who he’s. He admires dictators, sending love letters backwards and forwards with Kim Jong Un,” Harris stated at one level. She additionally informed Cooper that she believes Trump is a “fascist.” 

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Harris sat down final week for her first interview with Fox Information since rising to the highest of the Democratic ticket after President Biden dropped out of the race in July amid mounting considerations over his psychological acuity and age. Throughout that interview, Harris cited Trump by title 23 instances. 

“Greater than 70% of individuals inform the nation is on the mistaken monitor. They are saying the nation is on the mistaken monitor. If it is on the mistaken monitor, that monitor follows three and a half years of you being vice chairman and President Biden being president. That’s what they’re saying, 79% of them. Why are they saying that?” Fox Information chief political anchor Bret Baier requested Harris in the course of the interview. “Should you’re turning the web page, you’ve got been in workplace for 3 and a half years.”

“And Donald Trump has been working for workplace since…” Harris responded, whereas Baier interjected, “However you’ve got been the particular person holding the workplace.” 

At one other level, Baier requested Harris: “Your marketing campaign slogan is a ‘New approach ahead’ and ‘It’s time to show the web page.’ You’ve been vice chairman for 3 and a half years, so what are you turning the web page from?” 

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“Properly, initially, turning the web page from the final decade wherein we have now been burdened with the form of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and carried out to divide our nation and have Individuals actually level fingers at one another. Rhetoric and an method to management that means that the energy of a pacesetter relies on who you beat down as a substitute of what everyone knows, the energy of management relies on who you carry up,” Harris responded.

Fox Information Digital reached out to the Harris marketing campaign concerning the vice chairman repeatedly citing Trump when requested about her insurance policies, however didn’t instantly obtain a reply. 

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