With just two days to go before Election Day, Vice President Harris did not utter the name Donald Trump for the first time as a candidate during a rally in Michigan on Sunday.
For a second straight day, Vice President Kamala Harris is not mentioning the name of her opponent, former President Donald Trump, during her campaign rallies.
On Election Eve, Harris twice referred to the Republican presidential nominee as “the other guy” at a canvass kickoff in Scranton, her first of five stops in battleground Pennsylvania during the final full day of campaigning.
It was the same story on Sunday, as Harris made four campaign stops across another crucial battleground state – Michigan – without mentioning Trump’s name as she looked to close out her campaign for president on a positive note.
The vice president ended Sunday with a rally at Michigan State University’s Jamison Field House in East Lansing, where she sought to contrast her optimistic tone with what she has described as the darker message of her Republican opponent.
“We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and division,” Harris said in a veiled reference to Trump. “We are done with that. We are exhausted with that. America is ready for a fresh start, ready for a new way forward where we see our fellow American not as an enemy, but as a neighbor.”
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The Harris campaign confirmed to Fox News on Monday that the vice president made an intentional choice while stumping in swing state Michigan on Sunday not to mention Trump by name. Senior campaign officials said the plan is to “close fully positive”.
While Harris was hoping to end with a more optimistic tone, surrogates of the vice president have recently hurled insults at Trump and his supporters.
On Tuesday, President Biden spoke during a virtual Harris campaign with Voto Latino, where he took a swipe at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden. The rally made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden, however, would go on to make his own headlines with his description of Trump supporters.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American.”
On Thursday, billionaire Mark Cuban appeared on ABC’s “The View,” making comments some deemed insulting against women.
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban said. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.”
Trump has regularly criticized and insulted Harris since she replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket in July.
In recent weeks, the former president has charged that Harris “lazy as hell.” He’s also called the first woman of color to lead a major national party ticket as “slow,” having a “low IQ,” and “stupid.”
On Monday, at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trump argued “we have stupid people leading our nation,” as he appeared to refer to Harris, Biden, and others in their administration.
Meanwhile, Trump was also making stops in Pennsylvania and Michigan on Election Eve.
Trump flipped Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2016 – after Democrats had carried the so-called ‘Blue Wall states’ for a quarter centuryt – but all three turned blue for Biden in 2020.
Fox News Digital’s Jacqui Heinrich, Brooke Singman and Joseph A. Wulfsohn, along with The Associated Press contributed to this report.
