Former President Donald Trump says Vice President Kamala Harris left out some major policy issues in her speech accepting her party’s presidential nomination.
The former president and his campaign made a series of statements during and after Harris’s address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22. Her acceptance cements the Nov. 5 election faceoff between her and Trump, the Republican nominee.
“She didn’t talk about many things, like interest rates, China, fracking ... anywhere, let alone Pennsylvania, crime, poverty, trade deficits, child trafficking, woman trafficking, drugs, the border,” he said.
“She didn’t talk about the most important things.”
During the interview, show host Mercedes Schlapp, a longtime ally of Trump, asked about Harris’s assertion that he was planning “to create a national anti-abortion coordinator.”
Trump said, “I never heard of it. I never even heard the term.”
He also pushed back against her claims that he is connected to Project 2025, a product of The Heritage Foundation that is meant to be a policy blueprint for the next conservative president.
“We know what a second Trump term would look like—it’s all laid out in Project 2025,” Harris said during her speech. “But America, we are not going back.”
Democrats have repeatedly linked Trump to the plan despite his campaign and Project 2025 both saying that their work is not interrelated. However, many people who are or have been connected to Trump have worked on the project. Such plans have been in the works for every president since the 1980s but became controversial during this election cycle.
Harris also criticized the former president for sinking a recent bipartisan border bill, which she pledged to resurrect and sign if elected president.
“Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal,” she claimed.
Republicans blocked the bill, saying it didn’t go far enough to secure the border.
“It’s very simple—the bill was horrible,” he said. “It would have allowed millions of people to pour into our country. … It was a joke.”
He also said that the current administration has the legal authority to address the border crisis under laws already on the books.
“She doesn’t need a bill,” he said. “I didn’t have a bill. I closed the border. I had the safest border in the history of our country.”
“I stood at the border today in 100-degree weather, and I will tell you, it’s a dangerous place,” he said.
Harris, he noted, was appointed by Biden to address the border crisis. “There’s never been a border so unsafe as this.”
The Epoch Times has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
