‘That’s all he’s got?’: Harris' husband Doug Emhoff slaps back at Trump

Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff slapped back at Donald Trump on Tuesday after the Republican nominee for president attacked his wife.

Trump said Monday that Harris, his likely Democratic opponent, is “vicious and dumb.” He also alleged that she lied about President Joe Biden’s health and called her a “totally failed and insignificant” vice president in social media posts.

TOPSHOT - US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff acknowledge the crowd before speaking at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024. Harris on January 22, won the crucial backing of Democratic heavyweight Nancy Pelosi to lead the party against Donald Trump in November after Joe Biden's stunning exit from the 2024 race. As the endorsements stacked up, the 59-year-old Harris made her first public appearance since Biden's announcement in a ceremony at the White House where she warmly praised the outgoing president's "unmatched" achievements. (Photo by Erin SCHAFF / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

At his first solo event since Harris announced her presidential bid, Emhoff responded to the criticisms, telling reporters, “That’s all he’s got?”

“Look, you heard the vice president yesterday making the case against Donald Trump very clearly. Laid out the case directly, and in a compelling fashion. But she also laid out a vision for the future, a vision where there’s freedom, where we’re not having to talk about these issues of today in this post-Dobbs hellscape that Donald Trump created,” Emhoff said, according to a White House pool report.

He was referring to remarks that Harris delivered on Monday at the campaign’s headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Harris compared her record as a former prosecutor to Trump’s felony fraud convictions and criticized his involvement in a bevy of other civil and criminal cases.

In the speech, her first since announcing her presidential campaign, Harris said that as a district attorney and state attorney general, she "took on perpetrators of all kinds," including "predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.

"So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type," Harris said.

Harris' husband was at a Biden administration reproductive rights event in Virginia on Tuesday with the Health and Human Services secretary when he commented on his wife's nascent presidential campaign.

“Kamala Harris has united the party. She’s going to unite the country. She’s going to earn this nomination. You see that happening. And she’s going to win this election,” Emhoff said.

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