Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign bashed former President Trump Saturday for having an “on-line meltdown” after he posted the night before about reproductive rights points.
The previous president claimed in a publish on Truth Social that girls won’t take into consideration abortion if he’s elected, arguing that they’re at the moment worse off than they’d be if he wins in November.
“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO… AND ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!” Trump wrote Friday.
He argued that if he’s elected, these emotions can be fastened and “YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE, WITH THE STATES.”
The Harris marketing campaign responded, saying he “snapped,” after the vice chairman’s recent comments across the problem.
“After Vice President Harris spent the week talking in regards to the penalties of Trump Abortion Bans and the stakes of this election for ladies’s lives, Donald Trump snapped — taking to his telephone late at evening to rant and rave about girls,” Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika mentioned in a press release. “After ripping away our reproductive freedom, now he’s making an attempt to inform us easy methods to suppose.”
She added, “Trump thinks he can management girls — he’s fallacious. He’s terrified that girls throughout the nation will vote like our lives and freedoms depend upon it, as a result of they do. Girls aren’t silly.”
Trump’s assertion Friday evening got here hours after Harris gave an abortion-focused speech in Georgia, throughout which she spoke in regards to the ache skilled by girls in states with abortion bans and positioned the blame for his or her struggling squarely on Republicans and her GOP rival.
“His on-line meltdown got here simply hours after Vice President Harris gave a robust speech in Georgia in regards to the penalties of maximum Trump Abortion Bans, together with girls who misplaced their lives,” the Harris marketing campaign mentioned Saturday. “Clearly, Trump noticed and is anxious in regards to the energy of girls on this election.”
She invoked the identify of Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Georgia girl who died of an an infection after a uncommon complication from taking medicine abortion. In response to a latest ProPublica report, Thurman waited 20 hours in a suburban Atlanta hospital after searching for medical look after an incomplete abortion earlier than medical doctors tried to present her the remedy she wanted.
Trump in the meantime is in North Carolina for a marketing campaign occasion Saturday night. Harris’s marketing campaign additionally bashed him for his help of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), following a bombshell CNN report across the gubernatorial candidate.
Robinson will not be in attendance on the Trump rally.
“In only a few hours, Donald Trump will marketing campaign in North Carolina, the place his marketing campaign is standing by Mark Robinson after bombshell reporting uncovered Robinson calling himself a ‘Nazi,’” mentioned the marketing campaign, which quickly posted tales linking the 2 Republicans after the report was unveiled.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign for remark.