Trump's campaign charges against "false Harris"

Kamala Harris, during an event in Oakland, California, in 2019.Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters

The Donald Trump campaign had a video ready to discredit the election of Kamala Harris as the running mate of Democrat Joe Biden. Slow Joe and fake Kamala. They are perfect together. A mistake for the United States ”, said the clip shared by the US president just a few minutes after the expected announcement was made. The core of the message was that the senator from California wants to impose the ideas of "the radical left." Two weeks ago the Republican was asked what the senator for California would like as a candidate for vice president and he assured that it would be "a good choice." The third woman to become a vice president candidate for one of the two major parties said she felt "honored" to join Biden and to be able to do "whatever it takes" for him to become the next president of the United States.

Donald Trump twice donated money to Harris's campaign when he was running for reelection as California attorney general, according to state records cited by The Washington Post . Ivanka Trump, her daughter and current White House adviser, also donated. During the coronavirus press conference this afternoon, Trump referred to Biden's announcement this afternoon: "She was extraordinarily unpleasant to Kavanaugh ... She was unpleasant on a level that was just horrible." The Republican was referring to the senator's questioning of Brett Kavanaugh when she appointed him in 2018 to be a Supreme Court Justice. The lawyer responded to the accusation of Christine Blasey Ford, who said he tried to rape her three decades ago, when they were both minors. Finally, the Senate endorsed the election of Kavanaugh as a member of the highest judicial authority.

Bernie Sanders, the latest to withdraw from the race for the Democratic nomination and Biden's strongest rival at the head of the party's left wing, has celebrated the choice of his longtime rival. "Let's get down to work and win," he wrote in a message on Twitter.

Sanders stressed that Harris will make history as "our next vice president," in reference to the fact that no woman has held the position. The senator from Vermont has assured that he will be someone who will fight for universal health care and help to "overthrow the most corrupt Administration in history." Harris said at one point that he supported the socialist veteran's health proposal, but later clarified that he was not in favor of eliminating private health insurance.

In the video shared by Trump, his support for Sanders' "socialized medicine" is attributed to him. Ro Khanna, who co-chaired the Vermont senator's presidential campaign, has argued that Harris is capable of dragging the votes of the progressive's supporters, one of the party's great concerns. "She was on Bernie's bill, so I think she's open to him, and we must continue to build a grassroots movement on Medicare for All," Khanna said.

Former President Barack Obama has released a statement to support his former vice president's announcement. "He is more than ready for the job," he said, arguing that he has spent his entire career defending the Constitution and fighting for people who need fair treatment. "Now we are going to win this matter," he added.

Some tweeters have already wanted to install the slogan "Yes We Kam", as a pun that combines the iconic Yes We Can (Yes, we can) of Obama, with the name of Harris. The idea that now you have to go out and win the elections is repeated in the messages of support from the Democrats, with 84 days left until the elections, in one of the most anomalous presidential campaigns in recent history due to the coronavirus pandemic.

When the news broke, the most talked about topic on Twitter was Elizabeth Warren. The former presidential candidate, from the progressive wing of the party, was another strong bet to accompany Biden on the ticket . The senator from Massachusetts has said on the social network that Harris will be a "great partner" to make the Government a "powerful force" in the fight for social, racial and economic justice.

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