Former President Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Wisconsin over the weekend of Sept. 28, where he criticized the Biden-Harris administration for its immigration and border policy. Trump said Vice President Harris should be impeached for her handling of the southern border. He made the comment while standing next to mugshots of immigrants who are in the country illegally and accused of committing crimes.
Then Trump got personal and called Harris mentally disabled.
“Kamala is mentally impaired,” Trump told the crowd. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.”
Those personal attacks are frequent and Trump’s allies are frustrated he’s not sticking with policy.
“Vice President Kamala Harris is not mentally impaired,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said during “State of the Union.”
“No, I just think she’s crazy liberal,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., responded. “I don’t question her…”
“What do you think about that rhetoric?” Tapper pressed.
“I just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country. They’re crazy liberal,” Graham said.
Politico recently interviewed more than a dozen Trump allies who said the Trump campaign is at a crossroads.
“Faced with the choice of continuing with the missteps that have overtaken the past several weeks of his campaign or embracing a more calculated approach aimed at appealing to a small subset of undecided voters who are likely to sway the outcome of the election,” Politico reported.
“It’s not that he’s going backwards,” A Trump ally who was granted anonymity told Politico. “But he should be doing better.”
When asked to defend Trump, surrogates like former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., turn it back to a policy discussion.
“It had just come out that under this Biden-Harris, and remember the responsibility that Harris had for the border, they have allowed more than 425,000 illegal aliens who are convicted of a crime,” McCarthy said on CNN.
There are just 36 days until the election and the Real Clear Politics average of polls show Harris is leading Trump by 2 percentage points.
