Kamala Harris: Trump's ex-spokeswoman with new low blow

Trump’s “chief liar” with nasty remark against “childless” Kamala Harris

Former speaker Sarah Huckabee Sanders is fueling the debate about Harris’ private life. In addition, a union has refrained from recommending voting for the Democrats for the first time in 30 years.

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Presidential candidate with a patchwork family: Kamala Harris is once again labelled as childless by the Republicans.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to listen to a lot during her time as Donald Trump’s spokeswoman. “Liar-in-chief” was one of her nicknames in the media after Sanders no longer presented “alternative facts” like other advisers to the US president, but simply lied blatantly.

Since then, Donald Trump has held his loyal servant in high esteem, Who has governed her home state of Arkansas for almost two years, where her father was governor. With moist eyes she recently told at the Republican Party Conventionhow her mentor supported her when the evil mob of journalists dared to criticize her.

The 42-year-old’s experiences do not prevent her from using her own arguments in the election campaign. At an appearance with Donald Trump in the industrial city of Flint in Michigan on Tuesday, she told a touching anecdote about her daughter, who made herself pretty and remarked that her mother would surely look as good as her one day. Such stories from private life, from which wisdom about life can be derived, are a mandatory part of every political speech in the United States.

“My children keep me humble,” was the lesson Sanders learned. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris has nothing that keeps her humble.” There she was again, the debate about childless cat women, the vice presidential candidate JD Vance with his disrespectful remark about female Democrats. Kamala Harris’ supporters have long since adopted the description Pop star Taylor Swift signed her endorsement for the Democratic presidential candidate.

Even Trump’s advisers reacted with criticism of Sanders

The reactions were not long in coming. The first wife of Kamala Harris’ husband defended the Democrat, whose stepchildren Cole and Ella nicknamed her “Momala.” Even an adviser to Donald Trump, who was raised by his stepmother, described the comment on CNN as offensive and said he was disappointed in Huckabee Sanders.

The ongoing debate says a lot about the American zeitgeist. It was once considered an advantage in the USA if presidential candidates had no children – for example in the case of the very first incumbent, George Washington. In his first inaugural address, he considered pointing this out to make it clear to the young republic that he would not establish a hereditary line of succession.

In total, five presidents have been childless. In the 20th century, however, it became common to see the man in the Oval Office as the father of the nation. This image has become so entrenched in people’s minds that former actress Drew Barrymore called on Harris to take on a motherly role for the nation on her TV talk show in the spring. “We need you as the Momala of our country,” said Barrymore.

It was one of the rare moments when Harris’s happy laughter got stuck in her throat. At the Democratic Party Convention, however, she let her stepchildren and great-nieces rave about how much their aunt loved children.

As if her political track record were not qualified enough, her political career spanning 20 years in San Francisco, California and most recently at the federal level, as a prosecutor, attorney general, senator and most recently as vice president. Instead of having such fundamental discussions, Harris prefers to adapt her message. She also does this when asked about her identity as a black woman, always answering questions by saying that she wants to be a president for all Americans.

Harris leads only narrowly ahead of Trump

The strategy is cleverly chosen in a divided country where Kamala Harris is only narrowly ahead of Donald Trump in the polls and the smallest deviations in the seven swing states are likely to make the difference. Against this backdrop, it was a bitter defeat that Harris suffered on Wednesday. The Teamsters union refrained from making an endorsement in this election campaign, for the first time in almost 30 years, unlike most other unions.

The Teamsters are probably not the largest labor movement, but the decision of the 1.3 million employees in the transportation industry is symbolically significant. Their president, Sean O’Brien, was the first union representative in living memory to appear at the Republican Party Convention. And Donald Trump tried to use his economic populism to win over workers in rural America who were disillusioned with globalization.

This makes it all the more important for Harris to rally other parts of the coalition that brought Joe Biden into office in 2020. She was helped on Wednesday by more than 100 former employees of the security apparatus, all Republicans, who described Trump in a letter as “unfit” for the presidency.

Harris warns Latinos about Trump

Harris also found a receptive audience at a meeting of Latin American stakeholders in Washington. They will both improve border protection and create easier paths to residency papers for young migrants who have completed their education in the United States, Harris promised.

She warned urgently against a new Trump presidency, which is also courting Latinos. During his first term in office, the Republican tore families apart at the border and separated children from their parents. Now, during the election campaign, he announced the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States. “How is that supposed to work?” asked Harris. “Massive raids, huge deportation camps.”

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Fabian Fellmann Has been writing about political topics for more than 20 years. Since summer 2021, the political scientist has been reporting as a US correspondent from Washington, DC. Before that, he worked as a Brussels and Federal Parliament correspondent for various newspaper editorial offices.More info@fabian_fellmann

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