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US Vice President Kamala Harris has criticised her election rival Donald Trump for his “demeans” statement against the office of the president.
Speaking in an interview aired on US broadcaster MSNBC, Harris said Trump’s comment was an insult to the office and degraded the United States’ moral authority internationally.
“What you see in my opponent, a former president of the United States, really it demeans the office,” she said, in response to a question about the comments.
Recall that Trump while addressing a rally in the key swing state of Pennsylvania referred to Harris as “a shit vice president,” to roars of approval from his supporters.
With fews weeks to the November election day in US, polls report show Harris and Trump are locked in a neck-and-neck race for the presidency, including in the key swing states that decide US elections.
Trump has increasingly gone off-script during campaign events, using coarse and sometimes bizarre language.
During the same event in Pennsylvania, he referred to the genitalia of a famous male golfer.
Harris told MSNBC the former president should not be allowed to lead the country again.
“Donald Trump should never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States. He has not earned the right,” she said.
Trump’s comments, she added, degraded the United States’ “earned and self-appointed authority” to speak on issues such as democracy and the rule of law.
The 78-year-old’s campaign has been marked by the use of strong language and claims that are often divorced from reality, especially on the key election issue of immigration.
