‘Unsettled’: Harris campaign says Trump ‘can’t do the job’ after Al Smith dinner

Democrat Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign said her Republican rival Donald Trump is “unable to handle the job” of leading the country after his “unstable” appearance at the Al Smith charity dinner in New York on Thursday.

“Donald Trump repeatedly complained that he was not allowed to use the teleprompter and had difficulty reading scripted notes written by his handlers,” Harris campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement. “He stumbled over his own words and got angry when the crowd didn’t laugh with him.”

Moussa added: “In his rare moments of going off script, he went on long, incomprehensible ramblings, reminding Americans how unstable he had become.” “Of course he made it all about himself. He may refuse to release his medical records, but he makes it clear to the American people every day that he cannot do that.”

Trump’s joke at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual event benefiting Catholic charities, received a mixed response. At one point, he mentioned an extramarital affair Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, had during their previous marriage. Trump called his writers “idiots” after an Emhoff joke drew groans.

He also mocked President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, saying Harris has “the mental capacity of a child.” This suggested, as he has done many times before, that the 81-year-old Democrat’s cognitive abilities are declining.

But the Harris campaign’s statement sought to amplify concerns about Trump’s own health and mental state as the former president attempts to reclaim the White House.

Like Biden, Trump, 78, has been questioned about his age ahead of the November vote. If he wins, he will become the oldest president in history.

And while Trump mocked Harris for breaking the tradition of presidential candidates attending and not attending Thursday’s dinner, the Republican has pulled out of several high-profile interviews in recent weeks, with a Trump adviser reportedly citing fatigue as the reason.

Caroline Levitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, refuted the claim in a statement to POLITICO, saying the former president was “circling Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.”