U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris indirectly criticized former President Donald Trump on Sunday, suggesting her opponent in the Nov. 5 election was a “coward” whose politics focused on putting down rivals.

The remarks came in a campaign appearance in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania with running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, before Harris heads to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which kicks off Monday.

“Over the last several years there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. When what we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up,” Harris told a crowd of supporters. “Anybody who’s about beating down other people is a coward.”

She did not directly name Trump, who in a campaign appearance Saturday in eastern Pennsylvania referred to Harris as a “radical” and a “lunatic.”

  • mad_asshatter
    78•4 months ago

    She went easy on the weirdo.

    He’s also a racist pedophile rapist bigot lying treasonous traitor convicted felon.

    • @Docus
      21•4 months ago

      You missed out bully, misogynist

      • Optional
        5•4 months ago

        sociopathic, drug addicted, hypocritical fraud

    • TheRealKuniEnglish
      9•4 months ago

      She went easy on the weirdo.

      He’s also a racist pedophile rapist bigot lying treasonous traitor convicted felon.

      Well sure. It would be hypocritical to say her opponent focuses on the faults of others rather than the strength of his policies and then do the same.

      We all know he’s those things. She doesn’t need to say it.

  • Flying Squid
    53•4 months ago

    Don’t imply it, come out and say it. Tell Corporal Stolen Valor that his running mate, Private Bone Spurs, is a coward.

    • @makyoEnglish
      9•4 months ago

      Would love to have it come up in the debate when he avoids answering yet another question

      • TheRealKuniEnglish
        14•4 months ago

        I’d love it if she said “What are you, yellow?”

        “No, I’m orange!”

  • @p5yk0t1km1r4ge
    11•4 months ago

    Implied? No no no, my friend, you misunderstand.

  • Optional
    -19•4 months ago

    Reuters: (pressing all the buttons) C’mon, c’mon . . stick, damn you!

      • Optional
        -6•4 months ago

        I do, absolutely. And I also think corporate news has been desperate to find some kind of wedge, some kind of kerfuffle, a big to-do that will drive clicks. Something like “her emails” which was a gold mine for them.

        They haven’t found one yet. This is their latest attempt.