Trump escalates Harris mental fitness attacks, GOP cringes, as some move to support her

As Donald Trump escalated his baseless attacks connected Vice President Kamala Harris’s intelligence fittingness connected Sunday, his fellow Republicans cringed, and a growing list endorsed the Democratic Presidential candidate, citing the request to “put state implicit party.”

Rather than focusing connected policy, arsenic his governmental supporters would like, the Republican Presidential campaigner continued to bash Harris’s expected inadequacies, calling her “mentally impaired” and saying she should beryllium “impeached and prosecuted,” particularly for her stance connected immigration.

Trump leveled the charges successful a Wisconsin rally code connected Saturday that helium aboriginal quasi-walked backmost arsenic being “dark,” past doubled down connected them a time aboriginal successful Erie, Pennsylvania.

He held Harris liable for an “invasion” astatine the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent though by his ain admittance helium had been the 1 to pressure legislature Republicans to quash a bipartisan bill that would person gone a agelong mode toward fixing the problems.

Trump besides seems to favour prosecuting his governmental rivals, and has vowed to behaviour a wide deportation the infinitesimal helium takes bureau if elected. Those inactive supporting him said helium did not person to edifice to idiosyncratic insults to summation traction.

“I conscionable deliberation the amended people to instrumentality is to prosecute the lawsuit that her policies are destroying the country,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday successful reply to a question astir Trump’s comments. “They’re brainsick liberal.”

Other Republican reactions to the continued onslaught and different stances ranged from echoing the privation that he’d absorption connected policy, to outright endorsements of his Democratic rival.

Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., did not reply a question astir Trump’s attacks connected ABC’s “This Week” but alternatively did what the GOP is urging Trump to do, and addressed policy.

“I deliberation Kamala Harris is the incorrect prime for America,” said Emmer, who is helping Vice Presidential campaigner JD Vance hole for Tuesday’s statement with Democrat Tim Walz. “I deliberation Kamala Harris is really arsenic atrocious oregon worse arsenic the medication that we’ve witnessed for the past 4 years.”

On “Face the Nation,” erstwhile Maryland Gov. and mean Republican Senate campaigner Larry Hogan said Trump should laic disconnected harping connected Harris’s radical identity. The girl of Jamaican and Indian immigrants has ne'er played down her Black practice arsenic Trump has implied. Hogan called the remarks “outrageous and unacceptable,” according to USA Today.

“I’ve already called him retired erstwhile helium had the 1 interrogation wherever helium was questioning her radical identity, and present he’s questioning her intelligence competence,” Hogan said. “And I deliberation that’s insulting not lone to the vice president but to radical who really bash person intelligence disabilities.”

A growing database of Republicans continued to enactment state implicit enactment and endorse Harris. The latest to articulation them was former Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake who took his basal connected X connected Sunday due to the fact that of, not despite, his staunchly blimpish values.

“I’m a conservative. I judge successful the regularisation of law,” helium told the Arizona Republic. “First and foremost, I privation to enactment a presidential campaigner that respects the regularisation of law, idiosyncratic who, if they suffer an election, wouldn’t effort to usage the statesmanlike powers to overturn that election.”