Former president Trump said Harris “happened to turn Black” a few years ago and attacked the panelists when asked why Black voters should consider backing a candidate with his history of racist attacks on political rivals. The vice president later dismissed Trump’s remarks as “the same old show.”
Harris and her newly chosen vice presidential running mate will travel to a series of battleground states next week, a source familiar told CNN. The news comes after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday removed himself from consideration as Harris’ running mate in a sign that the accelerated search has entered a new phase.
UAW President Shawn Fain slammed former President Donald Trump’s lack of support for union workers in the past, as well as his courting of big donors instead of blue-collar workers, just hours after the union formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
“I mean, we know that Donald Trump is a lapdog for the billionaire class,” Fain told CNN’s Abby Phillip.
When asked why he endorsed Harris after endorsing Joe Biden in January, Fain said the union was excited for Harris, while praising Biden for doing the “honorable thing” by stepping aside.
“Obviously, I think there’s a lot of energy around the campaign, and, you know, I know our members are very excited about Vice President Harris’s candidacy,” Fain said.
He added: “A person (Biden) in the most powerful position in the world that’s willing to do the right thing and put the country first, you know, that’s a very honorable thing.”
Fain also called Trump’s remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention “pathetic,” saying it was typical of the former president.
“All he knows how to do is name call and divide people. And I don’t even really, his comments today — I don’t even know how they dignify any type of response because, you know, the man is just, it’s just low,” Fain said.
Fred Trump III, former President Donald Trump’s nephew, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday that he will not be voting for his uncle in November and that he endorses Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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“I firmly believe that our freedoms are on the line, and Kamala Harris is the only one standing between his divisiveness and rolling back freedoms and democracy,” he said on “OutFront.”
When Donald Trump ran in 2016, Fred Trump recalled, some members of the family “just thought it truly was a branding exercise.”
“It was about getting his his brand, out there,” he said. “And he did win, and we didn’t think he could do much damage. This was new. I mean, he knows the wheels of politics, but certainly didn’t think things would turn out the way they did.”
Asked if he was surprised by his uncle’s comments earlier Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Harris’ racial identity, Fred Trump said that “it doesn’t surprise me.” He added, “It seems to be happening lately, he’s, in many instances, misreading the crowd now.”
