The California senator and 2020 presidential candidate said Trump’s remarks on congressional Democrats are un-American and ‘defile' the office of the president.
Sen. Kamala Harris shared a blistering criticism of President Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks against a coalition of progressive lawmakers on Tuesday evening, saying his behavior “defiles” the White House and that he had taken the presidency to a “new low.”
Many have called the missives overtly racist, saying they played into white nationalist talking points. The group of lawmakers echoed those criticisms during a press conference this week, and Omar has since leveled fierce criticism at the president, calling him the “worst” leader America has had. I've personally been told,"go back to where you came from." It is vile, ignorant, shallow, and hateful. It has to stop. pic.twitter.com/t1oAD7s5OdHarris said at an event earlier Tuesday in Iowa that she, too, had been told growing up to go back to where she’d come from. But the senator told Lah later that evening it was one thing to hear such comments at school and “another thing to hear that from the president.
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