Trump calls Harris ‘Left Lunatic’ at campaign rally

New York, July 25: 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.