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Harris challenges Trump to a cognitive test after he called her a ‘very low IQ person’
Trump has called the 60-year-old Democratic vice-president stupid, and attacked her IQ in his pitch to voters
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris said on Monday she would take a cognitive test in response to jabs from Donald Trump, and challenged the ex-president to take one too as mental fitness becomes a battle line in the White House race.
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Democratic candidate Harris has repeatedly said her 78-year-old Republican opponent, now the oldest presidential candidate in US history, is increasingly “unhinged” and unfit to lead the country again.
Trump has, meanwhile, has unleashed a special array of personal – often condescending – attacks against 60-year-old Harris, from calling her “lazy” – a word long used to demean black people in racist terms – to insisting she’s a “stupid person” and asking whether she is “on drugs”.
He’s also called Harris, the first woman of colour to lead a major-party ticket, “slow” and has accused her of being a “a very low IQ person”.
Harris was asked in a CBS interview segment released on Monday if she would take a cognitive test, as Trump had called for on social media.
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