Kamala Harris sidesteps question on Michelle Obama slamming critics holding her to a 'higher standard' than Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris sidestepped a question implicit whether she is being held to a higher modular connected the run way than Donald Trump aft erstwhile First Lady Michelle Obama blasted the vice president's critics. 

During a rally connected Saturday, Obama accused the ex-president of gross incompetence portion claiming Harris has to 'dazzle' radical and beryllium she belongs.

'Can idiosyncratic archer maine wherefore we are, erstwhile again, holding Kamala to a higher modular than her opponent?' Obama asked at a rally successful Kalamazoo.

'We expect her to beryllium intelligent and articulate, to person a wide acceptable of policies, to ne'er amusement excessively overmuch anger, to beryllium clip and clip again that she belongs,' the erstwhile archetypal woman said. 

'But for Trump, we expect thing astatine all, nary knowing of policy, nary quality to enactment unneurotic a coherent argument, nary honesty, nary decency, nary morals,' she went on.

When asked astir the treble modular connected Monday by a reporter, Harris avoided addressing it.

 'My relation and work moving for President of the United States is to marque my lawsuit to the American radical and to gain their support,' Harris said.

The vice president claimed that is wherefore she is spending clip traveling the state listening to voters and sharing her plans to enactment them.

Her remarks travel aft the erstwhile archetypal woman gave a blistering reappraisal of the sum and voters' reactions to the 2024 statesmanlike contention and argued radical are consenting to constitute disconnected Trump's 'childish, mean-spirited antics.' 

'I anticipation that you'll forgive maine if I'm a small aggravated that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his evident intelligence decline, his past arsenic a convicted felon, a known slumlord, a predator recovered liable for intersexual abuse,' Obama said. 

'All of this portion we prime isolated Kamala's answers from interviews that helium doesn't adjacent person the courageousness to do,' she continued successful a brutal takedown. 

But erstwhile asked astir it, Harris pivoted to talking astir her proposals to assistance Americans. 

The question astir the treble modular accusation came earlier the vice president headed backmost to Michigan wherever she has 3 run stops connected Monday including a sojourn to a manufacturing installation successful Saginaw, a grooming installation successful Macomb and past a rally successful Ann Arbor. 

Before heading to the battleground state, the vice president also condemned the racist remarks made astatine the Trump rally astatine Madison Square Garden connected Sunday.

She said the lawsuit was 'intended to and is fanning the fuel' of part successful the United States.

'I deliberation past nighttime Donald Trump's lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden truly highlighted a constituent that I'd been making passim this campaign. He is focused and really fixated connected his grievances, connected himself and connected dividing our country,' the vice president said.