Harris appears with Charlamagne tha God in Detroit; Trump cancels CNBC interview

The Trump ally added that the Republican “has just been obsessed with this for at least a year. This is his campaign. So it’s happening.”

The Independent has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.

Kamala Harris to Charlamagne tha God on the importance of voter participation: “You can’t let anybody take you out of the game by not voting. The solutions are not gonna just happen overnight … the things that we want and are prepared to fight for won’t happen if we’re not active and don’t participate.”

Harris says Trump is about fear: “He is running full-time on a campaign that is about instilling fear not about hope.. Look what he did and saying that those legal immigrants in Springfield Ohio were eating their pets.”

Charlamagne asks why Harris allows him to call her the border czar when that wasn’t her role.

Harris: “If I respond to every name he called me, I wouldn’t be focused on the things that actually help the American people. And that’s my focus.”

A caller into Kamala Harris’s audio town hall asked the vice president about her stance on reparations.

Harris responded: “It has to be studied. There’s no question about that. I’ve been very clear about that position.”

She then pivoted to her plans for home ownership, small businesses, healthcare, and homecare that she believes would be especially impactful to the Black community.

In her audio town hall with Charlamagne tha God, Vice President Kamala Harris agreed with the radio host when he characterized Donald Trump’s vision for America as “fascism”.

“You have two choices…It’s two very different visions for our nation. Mine is about taking us forward and progress and investing in the American people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. And the other Donald Trump’s is taking us backward.”

Charlamagne added that the other is about fascism: “Why can’t we just say that?”

Harris: “Yes, we can say that.”

When asked about Trump’s plans for the Black community, Harris said: “Ask Donald Trump what his plan is for Black America. Ask him. I’ll tell you what it is. Look at Project 2025. Project 2025 tells you the plan includes making police departments have stop-and-frisk policies.”

Asked about her reputation of sticking to her talking points, Kamala Harris says: “That would be called discipline.” She notes that some things need to be repeated because they are important.

On being mimicked on Saturday Night Live Harris says: “Hasn’t Maya Rudolph been wonderful? I have nothing but admiration for the comedy, and I think it’s important to be able to laugh at yourself and each other in the spirit of comedy.”

On the state of the race: “This is a margin-of-error race. I’m gonna win, but it’s tight.”

Harris blasts Trump for sending Covid-19 testing equipment to Vladimir Putin during the height of the pandemic.

Charlamagne tha God responds: “That doesn’t sound like America first.”