Kamala Harris criticizes Donald Trump’s “insane” attacks in Minnesota

Kamala Harris’ campaign team has sharply criticized Donald Trump after he attacked the vice president during a campaign speech in Minnesota.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, called Harris, the likely Democratic nominee in November’s election, a “radical left-wing lunatic” who was “evil” and “crazy” during his 90-minute speech in St. Cloud on Saturday.

She said that if Harris is elected to the Oval Office, she will continue to allow high levels of immigration and mocked her laughter and her policies.

In a response statement from Harris spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika, the campaign team claimed that Trump was the one who “lost his mind.”

“Tonight in Minnesota, a bitter, crazed 78-year-old convicted felon stuck to his lies that the 2020 election he lost was ‘rigged,’ rambled about his former president and golf, and made excuses for why he’s afraid to debate Vice President Harris. Donald Trump said if he loses, our country is ‘finished.’ Yesterday, he promised the end of our democracy if he wins.”

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Trump’s speech comes as Minnesota is increasingly being considered as a target for the Republican campaign. Chris LaCivita, one of Trump’s senior advisers for the 2024 presidential campaign, told NBC News in May that he believes the Trump campaign has “a real, real opportunity to expand the map” of the state.

According to the latest polling data from aggregator FiveThirtyEight, Democrats and Republicans are tied in the state’s polls.

However, Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972, when Richard Nixon won almost all states except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Even in 2016, when Trump won a majority in most other Midwestern states, Minnesota narrowly backed Hillary Clinton.

Elsewhere at the event, Trump’s running mate JD Vance attacked Harris, claiming the media had misled the public about her.

“We have some of our friends from the media back there,” he said, pointing to the back of the room as the crowd booed loudly. “They deserve it,” he said.

“For three and a half years, my friends, they told us Joe Biden is Abraham Lincoln. And now the media is telling us Kamala Harris is Martin Luther King Jr. Can you believe that?” Vance said.

“But we all know she is not MLK, just as Joe Biden was not Abraham Lincoln.”

“We know she is a registered member of the San Francisco Lunatic Fringe,” he continued.

Vance and Trump have stepped up their attacks on Harris since Biden resigned on July 21 and endorsed Harris.

Three months before the elections, these attacks are likely to continue.