US President Donald Trump has asserted that California Senator Kamala Harris would be former Vice President Joe Biden’s “boss” if the two Democratic Party candidates defeat him and assume the nation’s top jobs.
After repeatedly questioning the mental acuity of Biden, who is to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Trump asked on Monda:, “Do you want to crush our economy under the crazy socialist policies of sleepy Joe Biden and his boss Kamala Harris?”
Harris, Biden’s running mate, is to be the party’s vice-presidential candidate.
Speaking at a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Trump referred to Biden’s mental powers and said: “He’s shot, he’s shot.”
After mentioning instances of Biden mis-speaking and his refusal to hold open press conferences, Trump made the dig about Harris and also House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being his boss.
If elected, Biden who will turn 78 in January 20121 would be the oldest person to assume the presidency, while Harris would be 56.
To needle the Democrats in his usual style, Trump stopped at the Oshkosh airport, about 100 km from Milwaukee, the official venue of the Democratic National Convention, which is being held remotely, and held a rally of a few hundred people in front of his Air Force One jetliner.
After saying Harris would be the “boss”, Trump then turned on her saying she had left the Democratic Party primaries – the internal election – “in shame” with her poll numbers going from 14 per cent to 2 per cent.
He called her “mean” and “angry”.
Biden was a “trojan horse for socialism,” who “has no clue, but the people around him are tough and they’re smart”, he said, adding: “They’re mean and they’re angry like her.”
Trump raked up Harris’s criticism of Biden for racial insensitivity when she was running against him for the party nomination.
“Nobody treated Joe Biden worse than Kamala,” he said.
“She was worse than anybody on (the debate) stage. Nobody treated him worse or with less respect. She had no respect. All of a sudden she’s now saying he’s wonderful. She didn’t feel that way a little while ago.”
Trump said that if Biden and Harris won, “China will own the US”.
He claimed that “time and again, sleepy Joe Biden put China first and America last” and then brought up the business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter with Chinese companies.
Hunter Biden “had absolutely no experience (but) walked away with one and a half billion dollars to manage, that’s millions of dollars a year”, the President asserted.
Trump said that crime would shoot up in the US because of the movement backed by the Democrats, under a Biden-Harris administration.
The movement against police brutality and racial injustice has sometimes turned violent and into demands for disbanding police or cutting finance for police.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bidens lead over President Donald Trump has narrowed since last month, according to a new national poll.
Biden leads Trump by just 4 points, with the former Vice President at 50 per cent and the latter at 46 per cent, The Hill news website quoted the CNN poll as saying on Sunday.
This marks a significant shift since the poll was last conducted in June, when Biden led Trump by 14 points at 55 per cent and the President at 41.
The movement in the poll among voters is concentrated among men, who were split about evenly in June but who now back Trump over Biden 56 to 40 per cent, and voters between the ages of 35 and 64, who tilt toward Trump now but were leaning toward Biden in June, according to CNN.
Voters who said they back Trump, though, are more likely to say they may change their mind.
Twelve per cent of voters who said they back Trump said they may change their mind before Election Day, but just 7 per cent of Biden supporters said the same, based on the poll.
The results of the national survey come just ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which begins on Monday, The Hill news reported.
A range of Democrats are scheduled to speak as part of the virtual programming to boost Biden as the is set to accept the party’s nomination.
Other recent polls, including an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released earlier on Sunday, have found Biden with a wider lead over Trump.
Recent polls of key battleground states have also indicated Biden has a lead over the President.
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama, in an 18-minute speech on Day One of the virtual Democratic convention, tore into Donald Trump’s presidency painting a picture of a man who does not understand what she described as the “immense weight and awesome power of the presidency”.
Obama was seeking to define the sharp differences between Trump and former vice president Joe Biden, with less than 80 days to go before the November election.
Dressed in a dark chocolate coloured silk dress, Obama roasted Trump in her keynote speech, describing him as someone who “cannot meet the moment” amid a global pandemic.
Obama slammed Trump for downplaying the threat from the Coronavirus which has killed more than 170,000 Americans and left the economy in “shambles”.
“I am one of the handful of people living today who have seen firsthand the immense weight and awesome power of the presidency,” Obama said, speaking of her personal experience in the White House from 2008 to 2016.
“The job is hard. It requires clear headed judgment, a mastery of complex and competing issues of devotion to facts and history, a moral compass and an ability to listen and an abiding belief that each of the 330,000,000 lives in this country has meaning and worth,” Obama said.
Mincing no words, Obama did take Trump’s name, almost reluctantly. It wasn’t a full frontal attack, more like “epic shade”, according to Obama obsessors and politicos. “Donald Trump is the wrong president for this country. It is what it is.”
“As I’ve said before, being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.
“Well, a presidential election can reveal who we are too, and four years ago, too many people chose to believe that their votes didn’t matter,” Obama said, taking the audience back to the moment Trump became president, defeating Hillary Clinton despite losing the popular vote.
Obama skewered the current occupant of the White House saying that when Americans look to this president for “some leadership, or consolation, or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy.”
Obama’s remarks were recorded before Biden’s announcement choosing California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Her speech made no mention of Harris although her social media feeds have featured lengthy posts on Harris, an Indian and Black American, after she joined the Democratic ticket.
Monday’s speech was the fourth Democratic convention address by Michelle Obama, who first took this stage during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.