‘A Bunch of Lies, Grievances, And Name-Calling’: Harris Comes Out Swinging At Trump’s Rhetoric

Vice President Kamala Harris came out swinging against former President Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s presidential debate hosted by ABC News, slamming Trump’s rhetoric.

Trump wrapped up an answer about the economy by railing against immigrants, saying, “You look at Springfield, Ohio, you look at Aurora in Colorado, they are taking over the towns, They’re taking over buildings.”

“They’re going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden led into our country. And they’re destroying our country. They’re dangerous. They’re at the highest level of criminality. And we have to get them out. We have to get them out fast. I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country. I’ll do it again. And even better,” Trump concluded.

Moderator David Muir noted, “We are going to get to immigration and border security during this debate. But I would like to let Vice President Harris respond on the economy here.”

“Well, I would love to. Let’s talk about what Donald Trump left us. Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression. Donald Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century. Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. And what we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess,” Harris replied, adding:

What we have done and what I intend to do is build on what we know are the aspirations and the hopes of the American people. But I’m going to tell you all in this debate tonight, you’re going to hear from the same old tired playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling.

What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again. I believe very strongly that the American people want a president who understands the importance of bringing us together, knowing we have so much more in common than what separates us. And I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.

“President Trump, I’ll give you a minute here to respond,” Muir followed up.

“Number one, I have nothing to do. As you know, and as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025 that’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely,” Trump replied of the program created by many of his former staffers through the Heritage Foundation.

“I’m not going to read it. This was a group of people that got together. They came up with some ideas, I guess some good, some bad. But it makes no difference. I have nothing to do. Everybody knows I’m an open book. Everybody knows what I’m going to do. Cut taxes very substantially and create a great economy like I did before,” Trump said, adding:

We had the greatest economy. We got hit with a pandemic, and the pandemic was not since 1917 when 100 million people died. Has there been anything like it? We did a phenomenal job with a pandemic. We handed them over a country where the economy and where the stock market was higher than it was before the pandemic came in.

Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. We made ventilators for the entire world. We got gowns, we got masks. We did things that nobody thought possible. And people give me credit for rebuilding the military. They give me credit for a lot of things, but not enough credit for the great job we did with the pandemic. But the only jobs they got were bounce-back jobs. These were jobs bounce-back and it bounced back and it went to their benefit. But I was the one that created them. They know it and so does everybody else.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.