Austin — Donald Trump tried on Friday to turn a major Kamala Harris holiday event into an attack linked to his favorite topic: immigration.
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Hours before Harris appeared with singer Beyoncé in Houston, Trump made his own stop in Texas and accused the US vice president of meeting with “liberal celebrities” but not with the relatives of people who have been killed by immigrants.
With 11 days until the elections in the United States, Trump and Harris deviated from their trips through the most disputed states to make brief forays into Texas, a solidly Republican state. Neither of them are trying to run for this state, but they are using it as a backdrop to convey a message about the issues they hope voters will keep in mind when voting. For Trump, this means border security. For Harris, the right to abortion.
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“We’re like a dumpster where the rest of the world throws away people they don’t want,” Trump told supporters Friday in Austin. Trump has continued to press the baseless idea that foreign governments deliberately send criminals to the United States.
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Harris said the comment is “just one more example of how he really disparages our country.”
“The president of the United States should be someone who elevates the discourse and speaks to the best aspects of us, and invests in the best of us, not someone like Donald Trump, who is constantly putting down and belittling the American people,” Harris told reporters in Houston.
During the campaign, Trump has met on multiple occasions with family members of people who were injured or killed by people living in the country illegally. On Friday, he gave the microphone to the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Texas girl whose body was found in June. The prosecution has accused two Venezuelans who are in the United States without authorization of murder.
* By Jill Covin and Adriana Gómez Licón / AP
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