GOP rep clashes with ABC News host over recent Trump rhetoric: 'I think we should stick to the issues'

ABC News' Martha Raddatz and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., clashed connected Sunday implicit caller comments erstwhile President Trump made astir Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic the lawmaker argued repeatedly they should "stick to the issues."

"Do you deliberation Kamala Harris is mentally disabled, bash you o.k. of that benignant of language?" Raddatz said, repeating Trump's comments astatine a caller rally. 

Trump told a assemblage astatine a recent Wisconsin rally, "Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was calved that way. She was calved that way. And if you deliberation astir it lone a mentally disabled idiosyncratic could person allowed this to hap to our country."

Emmer argued that Harris was the "wrong choice" for America.

ABC News' Martha Raddatz clashed with GOP Rep. Tom Emmer connected Sunday, September 29, 2024. (Screenshot/ABC)

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"Congressman, bash you o.k. of that language?" Raddatz interrupted, "do you o.k. of that language, Donald Trump calling her mentally disabled, mentally impaired?"

"I deliberation we should instrumentality to the issues," Emmer responded.

Raddatz past turned the speech to Trump and Vance's unsubstantiated assertion astir Haitian migrants eating cats and dogs successful Springfield, Ohio. 

"One of the issues is of course, migrants. I can’t judge we’re inactive talking astir this, but the baseless claims elevated by Vance and Trump that Haitian migrants were eating their pets," Raddatz said. "If the moderators successful the statement inquire Vance astir this, should helium yet marque wide it is not true?"

GOP Rep. Tom Emmer joined ABC News' Martha Raddatz connected Sunday for an interrogation connected "This Week." (Screenshot/ABC)

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Emmer said the question was "such a distraction."

"The radical successful the mainstream media privation to enactment up these shiny objects to distract radical from what they spot hap each day," Emmer continued, earlier Raddatz pushed backmost and argued that Trump and Vance brought up the issue.

"I deliberation they've got to absorption connected the issues. The issues are precise clear. The system works nether Donald Trump. It doesn’t enactment nether Kamala Harris. The borderline is sealed nether Donald Trump and transgression is nether control. And the borderline is wide unfastened and Kamala Harris is going into Minnesota trying to bail retired rioters and radical who are attacking policemen with a bail fund. The database goes connected and on. It volition beryllium a precise wide opposition betwixt JD Vance and Donald Trump’s docket versus what Kamala Harris is talking about. I don’t cognize wherefore you guys don’t inquire her astir her terms controls, I mean, she’s been mode to the left," Emmer said. 

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Raddatz argued that ABC does inquire Harris astir "price controls," and asked if Emmer would enactment the policies Harris proposed during her borderline visit.

"Do we judge her present aft she’s had astir 4 years to lick the borderline situation and each she did was made definite that it was wide open?" Emmer responded. "This is excessively little, excessively late. Nobody tin judge her due to the fact that her actions person said thing wholly antithetic for 4 years."