{"id":10887,"date":"2024-10-20T18:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2024-10-20T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:50:52","slug":"harris-turns-60-but-prefers-to-talk-about-trumps-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/harris-turns-60-but-prefers-to-talk-about-trumps-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris turns 60, but prefers to talk about Trump’s age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kamala Harris turns 60 on Sunday in the final stretch of a knife-edge election battle with 78-year-old Donald Trump, who is now the oldest presidential candidate in US history.<\/p>\n

Age has been a crucial factor in a campaign that President Joe Biden quit over fears about his capacity, and where Harris has steadily taken aim at Trump’s mental fitness for office.<\/p>\n

With just over two weeks before Election Day, the Democratic vice president and the Republican billionaire are in a fierce race that polls suggest is effectively tied.<\/p>\n

The two candidates will on Sunday again be in Pennsylvania, the battleground that is considered a must-win among the seven key states expected to decide the November 5 election.<\/p>\n

Biden passed the torch to Harris after a disastrous debate against Trump raised concerns in the Democratic Party about his mental sharpness.<\/p>\n

But Trump’s age has not appeared to be a deal-breaker for voters, as polls show a close battle.<\/p>\n

“Now he’s ducking debates and canceling interviews because of exhaustion,” Harris told a rally Saturday in Atlanta, mocking his rambling, off-script speeches.<\/p>\n

“He’s called it the weave. But we here, we will call it nonsense,” she added.<\/p>\n

– ‘Across the finish line’ –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harris had also sought to goad Trump with a report on October 12 that described her “excellent health”, but the ex-president’s campaign noted he too is “in perfect and excellent health to be Commander-in-Chief”.<\/p>\n

The Republican running for a second go in the White House countered Harris’s accusations with a marathon speech in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a day after saying she “doesn’t have the energy of a rabbit.”<\/p>\n

Both candidates are spending their final campaign days in pivotal battleground states, but so are their surrogates.<\/p>\n

Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has personally hit the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, holding a series of events in the must-win state.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the southeastern city of Harrisburg, he announced he would start to randomly distribute cash awards — $1 million each day until the November 5 vote — to a registered voter in the state who signed his organization’s petition.<\/p>\n

Harris deployed surrogates in the form of pop stars Lizzo and Usher to make her case to voters.<\/p>\n

Lizzo drew cheers when telling a Detroit rally that America was more than ready for its first woman president, dropping a reference to her own hit song: “It’s about damn time!”<\/p>\n

One of Atlanta’s major stars, Usher, told voters there that “I’m counting on you” to get Harris’s “campaign across the finish line” in Georgia.
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Kamala Harris turns 60 on Sunday in the final stretch of a knife-edge election battle with 78-year-old Donald Trump, who is now the oldest presidential candidate in US history. Age has been a crucial factor in a campaign that President Joe Biden quit over fears about his capacity, and where Harris has steadily taken aim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}