Kamala Harris Responds to Question Asking Donald Trump’s Virtues

Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Donald Trump’s love for his family was his virtue when asked to list three of them during her town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, attended a town hall for a group of undecided voters, hosted by the Spanish-language television network Univision, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Throughout the hour, she discussed issues such as immigration and health care, before, right at the end, one woman asked her to name three of Trump’s, the GOP presidential nominee, virtues.

Harris laughed as she told the attendee, “Thank you for the question,” before going on to name just one.

“Based on a life experience, I know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. And part of what pains me is, the approach that frankly Donald Trump and some others have taken, which is to suggest that it’s us versus them, whoever that may be.”

She continued: “And having Americans point fingers at each other, using language that’s belittling, people calling them names and meant to make them afraid and live in fear – I don’t think that’s healthy for our nation and I don’t admire that. And in fact, I’m quite critical of it coming from someone who wants to be president of the United States.”

Harris concluded: “I think Donald Trump loves his family and I think that’s very important. I think family is one of the most important things that we prioritize. But I don’t really know him to be honest with you, I only met him one time on the debate stage. I’d never met him before, so I don’t really have much more to offer you.”

Newsweek has contacted the Trump campaign and Harris’ campaign via email for comment.

The debate Harris is referring to is the one and only presidential debate she took part in against Trump on September 10, which was hosted by ABC News.

While Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation for a second debate, Trump has said several times that he does not want to debate again, often saying that they are “rigged” against him.

Fox News has also invited Trump and Harris to debate on either October 24 or October 27, but the former president said this week “there will be no rematch.”

Trump posted to Truth Social, his social media platform, on Wednesday that it is “very late in the [election] process” and said there is “nothing to debate” since “voting has already begun.”

However, during the 2020 election, Trump participated in the final presidential debate with Joe Biden on October 22, after early voting had started in several states. In 2016, he debated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 19.

It comes as Republicans have accused Harris of using a teleprompter during her Nevada town hall, with Univision denying the claim.

Several Republicans shared a video first posted by the Trump War Room account on X, formerly Twitter, of the vice president speaking, which appears to show a small screen in front of her that momentarily appears to have words on it before it turns off.

The video is not clear enough to show what was written on the screen, but Harris continues to speak uninterrupted after it goes off.

However, the event’s moderator Enrique Acevedo wrote on X: “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.”

In addition, Univision News president Daniel Coronell also denied the claim in a post on X, writing: “That’s not true. The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the town hall moderator. I can tell you this with first-hand knowledge because I was in charge of the television program.”

In the swing state of Nevada, Harris is leading Trump (47.6 to 47.1 percent), according to FiveThirtyEight’s aggregate polling as of Friday afternoon.