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Biden calls out Trump for calling Kamala Harris 'a monster'

Bret Gibson
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens during the vice presidential debate at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling on President Donald Trump to cease insults on running mate Sen. Kamala Harris after Trump called her a “monster” and a “communist” on Thursday during an interview on Fox Business.

Trump made the comments to host Maria Bartiromo in reference to Harris’ performance during the vice presidential debate with Mike Pence on Wednesday night. Harris is the first woman of color chosen to join a major party ticket.

“And this monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night by the way, but this monster, she says, ‘no no, there won’t be fracking,’” Trump said. “She was terrible, she was, uh, I don’t think you could get worse, and totally unlikeable, and she is. She’s a communist. She’s left of Bernie. She’s rated left of Bernie by everyone. She’s a communist.”

Biden, who spoke at the Phoenix airport, called the president’s remarks “so beneath the office of the presidency,” and said “the American people are sick and tired of it.”

Harris, who is campaigning in Arizona with her running mate, declined to comment on what Trump said.

“It’s obvious he cannot — he has great difficulty dealing with strong women,” Biden added, calling the California senator “a person who is ready on Day 1 to be president of the United States of America” and “a person who has more integrity in her little finger than most people have in their entire body.”

Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.

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