Anika Begay
Here’s a rundown of the candidates, in their own words, on the occasion of the presidential race.
AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump rallied supporters last week, both at Georgia State University in Atlanta, both our spokespeople in the news and on the campaign trail.
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VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Our administration has been working on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass. But at the last minute, Trump ordered his allies in the Senate to kill it.
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HARRIS: Right. He scuppered, he scuppered the bipartisan agreement because he thought it would help him win the election.
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JD VANCE: If he became president of the United States, he would not stop until every single illegal immigrant he allowed in was a voter, handing over control of your country to people who shouldn’t even be here.
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DONALD TRUMP: She was just promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago when she became black and now she wants to be known as black. So I don’t know. Is she Indian or is she black?
RACHEL SCOTT: She’s always identified…
TRUMP: But you know what?
SCOTT: …As a black woman.
TRUMP: I respect both of them.
SCOTT: He attended a historically black college.
TRUMP: I respect both of them, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian through and through, and then all of a sudden she changed her mind and became a black person.
SCOTT: Just to be clear, sir…
HARRIS: Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. And it was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me say, the American people deserve better. The American people deserve better.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: President Biden is celebrating the release of three wrongfully detained American citizens and a U.S. green card holder in a major prisoner swap with Russia and several other nations.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: For anyone wondering whether allies matter, the answer is yes.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: There’s already some criticism, including from Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance, who, a few moments ago, said: I think this shows that a lot of bad guys around the world are worried that Donald Trump is coming back to power. Your response to those comments?
JAKE SULLIVAN: I don’t understand.
TRUMP: I call him Crooked Joe for a reason. He’s crooked. I also call him Sleepy Joe. He’s sleepy. He’s sleepy. He’s crooked. He’s incompetent. He’s stupid. And she’s worse. She’s worse. If Harris wins, an endless stream of underground rapists, MS-13 animals, and child predators will flood your communities. If I win, on day one, we’ll begin the largest deportation operation in American history.
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TRUMP: We have no choice, we have no choice. No country can support…
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