Harris campaign hits back at Trump's 'unhinged' plan to empower police for deportations
Kamala Harris' campaign hit back at her Republican opponent on Tuesday night, slamming his latest "unhinged policy" of seeking to empower local police officers to carry out his plan for mass deportations.
In a statement shared on the social media app X, the Harris-Walz campaign jabbed Donald Trump, noting it's been more than 10 days since he visited a battleground state, "but he finally stepped off the golf course for a series of unhinged interviews with Univision, Spectrum News, and of course, Elon Musk, all from his country club basement — with notes at the ready."
The Democratic campaign attacked Trump, saying even his advisers have noticed him becoming "'increasingly detached from reality,' spewing 'increasingly bizarre claims,' and spiraling into 'truth decay' 'that it's undermining his real-world campaign.'"
The Harris campaign called Trump's agenda "dangerous and bizarre," singling out his plan to use local police forces to "round up millions of immigrants" — and his plan to gut Social Security funding.
Trump told Spectrum News that local police would receive a prominent role in his mass deportation plan, giving them "authority" to enforce immigration policy. Trump also pledged to give officers "immunity."
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"Our local police know everything about these criminals that have come into the country. They know their names and their middle name, they know where they live, what country they came from," the former president said.
"We’ll work with the local police and we have to get them out and you’re going to want them out and everybody’s going to want them out and you’re going to see crime numbers that are astronomical, because now they’re settling in and they’re getting comfortable," he said.
The Harris campaign then highlighted several moments — in just the last 24 hours — that it called "disastrous" for the Trump campaign. Among them:
- "Bizarrely" claiming that no one knows Harris' last name ("it's Harris")
- Praising the illegal firing of striking workers
- Repeating that Jewish people who don't support him should have their "head[s] examined."
- Outlining his Project 2025 plan to close the Department of Education.
In a statement, spokesperson Ammar Moussa said that in just two days of interviews, Trump mentioned plans that would "dismantle public education, gut social security and force local police to stop keeping neighborhoods safe so they can be weaponized against their own communities."
Moussa added that Harris and Walz have "a different vision" for the future — one that includes stopping Trump's Project 2025, lifting the middle class, protecting freedoms and growing opportunities.