Trump shocks his camp with new insult targeting Harris

With one month to go before the American election, the Republican candidate has once again distinguished himself by attacking his Democratic opponent. Another insult that has divided his camp and provoked the anger of American associations.

Donald Trump continues his one-sided verbal joust. The Republican candidate has once again attacked his opponent Kamala Harris head-on, during a rally on September 28. But this time the insult was hard to swallow, even in his own camp. Some Republican Party leaders would like their candidate to focus more on his program rather than on his opponent.

While passing through Wisconsin, a key Midwestern state that will be in focus on election night, the Republican candidate attacked the vice president's mental faculties. In front of a crowd of supporters, Donald Trump called the presidential duo, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, “mentally disabled.” Comments that he then repeated new ones repeated over the weekend and which seem to have been a hit with his supporters, in a particularly uncertain state where he suffered a setback in 2020 against Joe Biden after having won in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

“Joe Biden has become mentally disabled. Kamala was born like that. She was born like that,” he said for the first time on Saturday before going further on Sunday, this time in Pennsylvania, another key state where the November 5 election will be played out. “Corrupt Joe Biden has become mentally disabled. Sad. But the liar Kamala Harris, honestly, I think she was born that way. There's something wrong with Kamala. I don't know what it is, but she's missing something. And you know it, everybody knows it,” the billionaire once again vilified.

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The measured annoyance of the Republicans

In the Democratic camp, Donald Trump's punchy outbursts have become commonplace, with Kamala Harris even using them to her advantage to counterattack her opponent's rhetoric. Among the Republicans, it's a completely different matter. Although their candidate has made provocation his trademark, the latest insults targeting Kamala Harris are annoying and dividing the party, which was already fractured by Donald Trump's inauguration in this new election.

Some of them have publicly stated their opposition to Donald Trump, and others, while supportive, have increasingly expressed their disagreement with the billionaire's brutal methods. “I think the best way to go is to attack her on her ideas that are destroying the country. […] I'm not saying she's crazy, I'm saying her ideas are bloody crazy,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN. Tom Emmer, a Republican elected official from Minnesota who himself has criticized Kamala Harris, calling her the “border czar,” said “we should stick to the issues.”

Anger from disability groups

In a polarized America, Donald Trump continues to divide and defeat, now facing criticism from disability advocates. In a statement to the Washington Post, Maria Town, president of the American Association of Disabled People, said she regretted that the former president held “a mistaken belief that a person with a disability is less human and less worthy of dignity” and that this “harms people with disabilities.” She added: that Donald Trump's statements “say far more about him and his inaccurate and hateful bias against people with disabilities than they do about Vice President Harris or any other person with a disability.”