Kamala Harris is “not competent” to be President, US President Donald Trump has said as he launched an attack on the Indian-origin senator’s credentials for the top post.
Addressing his supporters at a Republican campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday, Trump said he would support seeing a female President in the US, but suggested that his daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump would be a better candidate for the role.
Harris, 55, was a presidential aspirant until last year before she dropped out of the race because of a lack of popular support.Harris returned to political limelight after Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, picked her as his running mate in the November 3 election.
Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Harris is the first Indian-American and first Black woman to be picked by a major American political party for one of the top posts.“You know I want to see the first woman President, but I don’t want to see a woman president get into that position the way she’d do it, and she’s not competent,” Trump said, amid applause from his supporters, a few of whom screamed Ivanka Trump, at an election rally on Friday.
