All the lies Trump has told about Harris – and her claims about him

Ever since President Joe Biden announced he would not be seeking a second term after all, Donald Trump has been left reeling by the rise and rise of Kamala Harris, who has picked up the Democratic party’s nomination and made major gains in the polls.

As a result,the former president and his running mate JD Vance have resorted to childish nicknames, from “Laughin’ Kamala” and “Kamabla” to “Tampon Tim” for Harris’s vice presidential pick Tim Walz, and attacks including a number of false claims about the vice president – both about her personal life and her political record.

The vice president and Walz meanwhile have also been landing blows on Trump and Vance, branding them “weird” and leveling claims about what a future under a second Trump administration could look like.

Here’s a look at some of the lies Trump has told about Harris so far – and her claims about him:

Trump has tried hard to blame the illegal immigration crisis at the US’s southern border on Harris, claiming that she is President Joe Biden’s “border czar.”

“She was a bum three weeks ago… A failed vice president in a failed administration, with millions of people crossing, and she was the border czar,” he told a Turning Point audience in Florida on July 26.

Harris was not appointed to tackle the border. Instead, she was tapped to work with Central American countries on the root causes of immigration into the US.

Meanwhile, it was Trump who urged Republicans on Capitol Hill to tank a major bipartisan border bill back in February.

Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago in July, Trump questioned Harris’s racial heritage and claimed she “happened to turn Black” only recently.

Vance has since called the biracial Harris,