Donald Trump's weekend remarks calling Vice President Kamala Harris 'mentally impaired' sparked backlash from some fellow Republicans. Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Tom Emmer urged a focus on policy issues rather than personal attacks.
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr Trump ’s comments about Kamala Harris joined a long list of personal attacks against opponents that supporters at his campaign eagerly lap up.
Mr Graham’s comments came as immigration and border security remained the top domestic issue on Sunday’s political talk shows. Mr Trump made his comments during a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday amid remarks on Ms Harris’s actions on those issues as vice-president.“Kamala is mentally impaired. If a Republican did what she did, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so, for high crimes and misdemeanours,” he said.
But Maryland governor Larry Hogan struck back, telling CBS News that Mr Trump’s comments were “insulting not only to the vice-president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities.Steven Cheung, the communications director for the Trump campaign, did not directly address Mr Trump’s comments, widely criticised as offensive, but said Ms Harris’s record on immigration and border security made her “wholly unfit to serve as president”.
“Whenever he says things like that, he’s talking about himself but trying to project it on to others,” Mr Pritzker said. Eric Holder, the former Obama administration attorney general, said Mr Trump’s comments indicated “cognitive decline”.
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