Kamala Harris Identifies What Every Trump VP Contender Has In Common
Vice President Kamala Harris is sharing her opinion on former President Donald Trump’s potential running mates less than five months out of the U.S. presidential election.
Trump’s campaign has reportedlysent VP vetting materials to three Republicans: Sens. J.D. Vance (Ohio), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Gov. Doug Burgum (N.D.).
The former president’s team has also requested documents from Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), Reps. Byron Donalds (Fla.), Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
In an interview with Politico Playbook over the weekend, Harris targeted Trump’s potential running mates over their position on abortion, which has proven to be a winning issue for Democrats, noting that some of the Republicans on his list went as far as voting against a Senate bill codifying Americans’ right to contraception last week.
“Everyone on that list has supported a Trump abortion ban in their state or has called for a national ban,” she said.
It’s clear “Trump wants an enabler,” Harris added.
“He doesn’t want a governing partner. He doesn’t want another Mike Pence, and I think that is clear,” Harris said. “The litmus test is, are they going to be absolutely loyal to Trump over country or their oath of office, or, frankly, the American people?”
Trump repeatedly attacked his vice president, Pence, over his refusal to overturn the 2020 election results to reverse his defeat. Pence launched his own presidential run last year butdropped out after his candidacy failed to get traction.
Harris also singled out Donalds, representative of Florida’s 19th Congressional District, over his recent commentsclaiming Black American families were “together” during the era of legal segregation known as Jim Crow.
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