Trump calls Harris left lunatic at campaign rally

New York, July 25 (IANS) In his first campaign rally after President Joe Biden quit the 2024 presidential race and Kamala Harris firmed up her position to become the Democratic Party candidate, Republican nominee Donald Trump lit into her laying out his angles of attack with the change in the party ticket.Mispronouncing her name as “Kamaala”, he launched a fusillade of labels – “ultra-liberal”, “left-lunatic”, “Marxist”, and “ultra-left” – to brand her ideologically at a rally in Charlotte in North Carolina, a state he carried in the last two elections on Wednesday.His rally was held indoors in a packed stadium with seating on stands of about 10,000 with another 10,000 or so in temporary seats in the playfield, because of security reasons after the sniper attack at his outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.He seemed to not have a bandage on his right ear, which had been injured in the recent assassination attempt.His speech of 100 minutes was theatre and entertainment for his fervent supporters relying on his showmanship and unabashed hyperbole, sometimes fact-challenged.The only issue he spoke of that could affect India was to repeat his threat to enact what he called the Trump Reciprocal Tariff Act that would impose retaliatory taxes on countries that impose high customs duties on imports from the US.In a speech thin on foreign affairs, Trump said he would create an “Iron Dome” missile defence using domestic technology and manufacture.He also claimed he would end the Ukraine War on Day 1.He criticised Harris for boycotting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress earlier in the day.”She is against the Jewish people,” Trump said, ignoring the fact that Harris is married to a Jewish man, Doug Emhoff.Harris appears to be narrowing Trump’s lead in polls, though still within the margin of error, requiring him to reorient his campaign.RealClear