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Harris implies Trump a ‘coward’ during Pennsylvania campaign appearance
- Kamala Harris took her surging US presidential campaign to the swing state of Pennsylvania to push her case against Donald Trump
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris indirectly criticised former president Donald Trump on Sunday, suggesting her opponent in the November 5 election was a “coward” whose politics focused on putting down rivals.
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The remarks came in a campaign appearance in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania with running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, before Harris heads to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which kicks off on Monday.
“Over the last several years there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. When what we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up,” Harris told a crowd of supporters. “Anybody who’s about beating down other people is a coward.”
She did not directly name Trump, who in a campaign appearance on Saturday in eastern Pennsylvania referred to Harris as a “radical” and a “lunatic”.
Harris has reenergised the Democratic Party after an astonishing month that has seen her replace US President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and wipe out Republican rival Trump’s lead in the polls.
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Earlier on Sunday, Harris and Walz, accompanied by their spouses, arrived at an airport hangar in Pittsburgh and greeted supporters, before setting off on a bus emblazoned with their names to a series of small towns to woo blue-collar voters.
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