Former President Donald Trump believes Vice President Kamala Harris will be easier to beat in the presidential race than President Joe Biden because Harris does not have a base of support within the Democratic Party.
Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham broadcast on Monday, during which he discussed whether he would agree to debate Harris.
“I like debating. I’ve done a lot of debates, and I’ve won the debates,” he said. “They were pushing for this early debate. I said, why do we want to do an early debate? It didn’t make sense to me. It turned out I was right, but for the wrong reasons, right? Um, I want to do a debate, but I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am, and now people know who she is.”
“She’s a radical left lunatic,” he continued. “She’ll destroy our country. She wants open borders.”
When the Harris campaign suggested that he was scared to debate her, Trump responded by noting that Democrats claimed that he was afraid to debate Biden earlier this year. He went on to beat Biden so badly in the debate that his polling collapsed, and he quit the race.
“They offered me everything that I couldn’t accept, and I accepted it,” Trump said. “I accepted everything. And we had a debate. It was a great debate. It was actually… Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe I shouldn’t have debated so well because that was the end of him because from that day on, you could see that he was not gonna be [the nominee]. In my opinion, I said, I don’t think he’s gonna make it anymore.”
“Now I have her. I would rather run against her than him. I think she’s easier than he is,” he continued. “I always felt he was incompetent, but he had a certain base. And no matter how bad he was, people are gonna vote for him. She doesn’t have that base.”
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