Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of copying his philosophy after she offered no policy proposals during Tuesday night's debate.
Trump said during an ABC News debate that Ms Harris was a “Marxist” who would run a far-left government despite campaigning on the political center and embracing some of the same policies as the president, and warned that the United States would be doomed if she were elected president.
“She has no agenda. Everything she believed in three years ago, four years ago, is gone. She follows my philosophies now. In fact, I was going to send her a MAGA hat,” Trump said. “She follows my philosophies, but if she gets elected, she's going to change them. That would be the end of our country. She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist. Her father was a Marxist professor of economics, and he gave her a good education.”
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President Trump criticized the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the crisis on the southern border, claiming it has destroyed the economy.
“They're criminals. A lot of them are criminals, and that's bad for our economy… Bad immigrants are the worst thing that can happen to our economy. They and she have destroyed our country with their crazy policies, policies that are almost 'they must hate our country,'” the former president said. (Related: “Does that bother you?”: Jennings and Axelrod feud over Harris' sandal response in CNN interview)
At a rally on August 11, Trump accused Harris of copying his own policy proposal to eliminate tip taxes for service workers. The former president proposed the policy at a rally on June 9, and Harris introduced the idea at a rally on August 10.
“How long will it be before Kamala Harris comes out with another 'Trump' policy like 'Seniors on Social Security don't pay taxes?'” Trump wrote on Truth Social. post August 10th. “Her condition is really bad now! Everyone is waiting to see what ideas and policies she will copy from me next.”
Harris reversed her stance from opposing the construction of a border wall on the US-Mexico border to announce her support in late August. During the 2020 presidential election, the current Vice President called Trump's wall proposal “un-American” and a “stupid waste of money.”
On Monday, the day before the debate and more than a month after she launched her campaign, Harris published policy pages on her campaign website that did not include any changes in her positions from her time as a senator or as a 2020 presidential candidate.
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