Usa 2020, Harris attacks Trump: he tore the country apart. The reply: he said horrible things about Biden

2020-08-13T06:13:22.526Z

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, respectively US presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Democrats, together for the first time; and the election campaign for the White House is officially in full swing. With a straight-leg attack on US President Donald Trump, guilty of "tearing the country to shreds" and "not up to it", the Democratic ticket launched its campaign, a campaign to find "the soul of the nation" and who wants to overcome Trump and Mike Pence's "Us or chaos" message. For her part, Donald Trump's response was not long in coming: "Kamala Harris? I think it was a bizarre choice because she said such bad things ... horrible things about him. She made fun of him openly": so the President Donald Trump during a press conference at the White House commented on the choice of the senator as Joe Biden's deputy in the presidential race. "She talked a lot worse about Biden than I ever did," he added, referring to his attacks during the primary. The tycoon denied having followed the first public release of the democratic ticket on TV. Harris, a twenty-four-hour running mate, Joe Biden's running mate, appeared alongside him for the first time at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, the state of the former US vice president and, due to new coronavirus pandemic, the basis of the Democratic election campaign. An event closed to the public, in which the two presented themselves on stage both with masks, and addressed to a group of journalists, kept at a distance. "This is a fight for the soul of the United States and I am proud that Kamala is by my side in the battle," Biden began, noting that Harris is the first woman of black and Indian descent to enter a presidential ticket. of an important US party. Harris warned that the country is suffering from "a leadership crisis" and said she was "ready to start working" in the new administration starting in January 2021, when the winner of the general election on November 3 will take up his new mandate. . "I have no doubt that I have chosen the right person," Biden added, trusting that, with the appointment of the Californian senator, "black and colored girls, often ignored or undervalued, perhaps today, will be looked at in a different way. : as 'material' for vice president and president ". "One of the reasons I chose Kamala - he added - is because we both believe that America can be defined in one word: possibility". Harris reiterated several times in his speech that the US has a leadership problem and, at the same time, he drew parallels between the Trump administration and that of former President Barack Obama (who had to deal with another health crisis, " that of Ebola, when only two Americans died "). "America is calling for leadership. And instead we have a president who cares more about himself than the people who elected him. A president who makes every challenge we face even more difficult to solve." Hence the warning: "Everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the type of country we live in, everything is at stake". Harris criticized Trump's handling of the economic fallout from the crisis: "We are recovering from the worst health crisis of the last century. But the president's mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." And he recalled that Trump "inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden" and "canceled it out". "Due to the failure of Trump's leadership, our economy has suffered one of the worst blows among industrialized nations with an unemployment rate that has tripled to date". As for the virus, "it has affected almost every country, but there is a reason it has hit the United States worse than any other advanced nation. It is because of Trump's inability to take it seriously from the start." . If Democrats make it to the White House, they will propose plans to tackle climate change, to maintain Obama-approved affordable health insurance programs, as well as plans to "eradicate systemic racism," which has led to protests across the country. since last May. Meanwhile, Biden noted that, in the last 24 hours, there have been a record number of donations to his campaign, evidently the result of Kamala's arrival in the ticket. And that she is the right candidate, he added, is demonstrated by Trump's "strong reaction", who however "has a problem with strong women". For his part, the US president, who spoke just a few minutes later, in the usual briefing from the White House, said he had not followed the first public release of the Democratic ticket on TV; but he called Biden's choice "bizarre", because "she said such bad things, horrible things about him. She made fun of him outright," he added with clear reference to the race for the Democratic nominations. Kamala Harris "spoke a lot worse about Biden than I ever did." However, now the 'race' has really begun. Biden will formally accept the Democratic nomination at next week's party convention, an event that will be largely virtual due to the pandemic. Trump will announce, probably as early as next week, from where he will make the speech in which he will accept the mandate from the Republican convention (whether from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a symbolic place of the American Civil War, or from the White House, a gesture never made before by a president in office). A campaign of 11 weeks, 80 days of fire will follow, interspersed with three televised debates between Trump and Biden (in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29; in Miami, Florida, on October 15; and in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22). October). Then it will be Harris's turn, in a duel with Vice President Mike Pence, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 7th. Finally, on November 3, AU voters will finally deliver their verdict.