Former President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of personal attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, saying at a Latino outreach campaign event in Miami that she is "the worst" and "slow," with a "low IQ."
“This woman is the worst. I mean, it’s just unbelievable," Trump said at the roundtable event with Latino leaders.
He first attacked Harris for choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. "I think she made a horrible mistake. We’ll see what happens. On Nov. 5, you know, let’s see what happens. But there’s something wrong with him. Honestly, there’s something wrong, and there's something wrong with her, too. She’s slow, low IQ, something, I don’t know what the hell it is, but they lied.”
"We don't need another low-IQ person," he continued. "We had one for four years. We don't need another."
During the event, during which participants of the roundtable repeatedly praised Trump, the former president also attacked Harris for not appearing on the campaign trail Tuesday.
While Harris is not appearing at campaign events, she is sitting down for interviews with NBC News’ Hallie Jackson and Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro. Though she had been criticized by Trump and his allies for a lack of news interviews, she has done a flurry of media appearances in recent weeks, including an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" that Trump himself skipped.
"They lie about everything. And I was going to hit her really hard on the trail today, but now I don't have to, because she's off. She's off. No, I can't get over it. Who the hell takes off?" Trump said Tuesday. "You have 14 days left, and she'll take a couple of more days off, too. You know why? She's lazy as hell, and she's got that reputation, and she's a radical left lunatic, she's further left than Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas," he said, using the derogatory nickname he's given to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
NBC News reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
Trump frequently refers to Harris, the country’s first Black, South Asian and female vice president, as dumb, weak and crazy. In recent weeks, the former president has been ramping up his ad hominem attacks. At a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, Trump dismissed the people who have advised him to be nicer on the campaign trail.
“I don’t want to be nice. Somebody said, ‘You should be nice, sir. Women won’t like it,’” Trump said, adding: “The women want safety.”
At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Trump went further with his personal attacks, telling supporters, “You have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore. We can’t stand you. You’re a s--- vice president.”
