Kamala Harris tells The View she's 'afraid' of Trump being re-elected: Defends Biden, 81, over his age

Vice President Kamala Harris told the hosts of ABC's The View that she is “afraid” of Donald Trump being elected to a second term.

In a friendly 45-minute interview, Harris had several opportunities to praise the work of President Joe Biden's administration and condemn Republicans for having “nothing to fall back on.” She also defended Biden's age and said she was afraid of the “crazies.”

Joy Behar asked the vice president about comments Michelle Obama made, stating that she was terrified about the outcome of the 2024 election. Behar asked her what she and Biden are “going to do to stop the crazies.”

“I'm so scared,” Harris replied.

“There's an old saying that there are only two ways to run for office: unopposed or afraid,” the vice president continued.

“So on all of these counts, yes, we should all be afraid, but as we know, and this is certainly a table of very powerful women, we don't run away from something when we're afraid. We fight it.'

Harris received a warm welcome when she entered the ABC soundstage in New York for the interview. Each of the five co-hosts gave her a hug.

Whoopi Goldberg proposed to her: 'Vice President Kamala Harris is incredibly busy helping to govern the country and run a re-election campaign with so much at stake, and I have to say that we at this table are thrilled that she found a moment to to come and visit. .'

Harris not only praised the administration's performance, but also defended Biden's age. At 81 years old, he is the oldest president ever elected in American history. If he wins a second term, he would be 86 years old upon completion.

Harris described the president as “progressive.”

'Let me tackle the problem directly. I spend a lot of time with our president, albeit in the Oval Office, the Situation Room. “In Joe Biden, we have a president who is thinking ahead in a way we haven't seen in a long time,” she said.

Harris also used the airtime to bash Republicans. She pointed specifically to Biden's infrastructure plan, noting that many Republican lawmakers are taking credit for projects coming to their districts.

She claimed they are doing it because they have nothing to run on and that Republicans are using issues like immigration and Biden's age to divide the country and “distract from the real issues.”

“Why are they doing it,” she said. 'Because they have nothing to run on. They have nothing to run on. Where's the plan? Right, and so that's what happens. I think it's a shame that so many people are trying to divide our country in that direction and divert attention from the real problems.'

Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses by 30 points

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden at a White House event in October

Polls show Harris' approval rating hovering around 37% — a low figure even lower than Biden's.

Trump leads Biden by one point Polling average from RealClearPolitics of the 2024 presidential elections.

And a CBS News/YouGov poll on Monday showed Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis each beating Biden in a head-to-head matchup in the 2024 general election.

While Trump is leading in the Republican party primaries, Haley fared best against Biden. Haley had an eight-point lead over Biden — 53 percent support to 45 percent, showing strong support from moderates and independents.

Trump won the Iowa caucuses on Monday evening with a record victory of 30 points. He finished with 51 percent of the vote, far ahead of DeSantis with 21 percent, Haley's 19 percent and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy's 8 percent, who dropped out of the race Monday night.

Some experts are already predicting that Trump could finally clinch the Republican presidential nomination by March, which would be one of the first starts to a general election campaign.

Harris also echoed the Biden team's argument that the 2024 election is about the fight for democracy. Biden's focus on the campaign trail was on Trump. He has made defending democracy the centerpiece of his re-election campaign and has repeatedly said Trump threatens the principles on which the country was founded.

The vice president echoed that when The View co-host Alyssa Farah asked her about their ticket in the polls as they faced off against Trump.

“What does it say that the party is struggling to compete with an unfit man who is likely to go to jail?” Farah asked her.

“There's a lot to unpack there,” Harris replied.

She then went on to say that the election is a “split screen” that you can throw up and watch, and that it will be a choice between what is about respecting our democracy, what is about competency versus chaos versus someone who called those who are destroying our would attack the capital. and attempt to overturn the votes of millions of Americans in a presidential race, and would dare to call the people who committed acts of violence patriots.

Biden is meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday afternoon to discuss funding for Ukraine, which Republicans have combined with border security.

But Harris told The View that Republicans will not support a solution to the border because it is an election year. The GOP has used border security as a campaign issue for the 2024 presidential election.

'We want solutions. The solutions are at hand, but honestly, we are in an election year, and the people who want to return Donald Trump to the White House would rather talk about a broken immigration system instead of focusing on the solutions at hand. and engaging in bipartisan work,” she said.