US President Donald Trump said Tuesday August 11 " surprised " by the decision of the Democratic candidate for the White House to choose as running mate the black senator Kamala Harris, whose performance he deemed " mediocre ".
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" I was more surprised than anything else because she was very mediocre " during the campaign for the Democratic primaries, won by Joe Biden, Trump said at his daily press conference at the White House. “ She had very poor results in the primaries. And that is like a survey. "
The billionaire Republican, who is running for re-election, also noted that during the hearing of controversial Conservative Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Kamala Harris was " the meanest, the most horrible, the most insolent. of the whole Senate ”. She also " disrespected " Joe Biden, added Trump, in reference to the first debate of the Democratic primaries, in 2019, where the senator from California had attacked the former vice president with virulence on his past positions on policies. of racial desegregation in the 1970s.
In contrast, Donald Trump sang the praises of his “ rock solid ” Vice President Mike Pence “ respected by all religious groups ”.
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