Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has argued that President Donald Trump’s pledge to protect American women from illegal alien crime is “offensive.”
During his Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally this week, Trump said he wants to the crimes being committed by “criminal migrants” who were “imported” into America by Harris.
He argues that the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies have enabled “savage criminals to assault, rape, and murder our women and girls.”
Trump vowed to protect women and girls from such crimes.
Harris responded to Trump’s promise while speaking with reporters Thursday morning.
Tying Trump’s comments on illegal immigration to abortion, Harris said:
“It’s just, it actually is being very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their rights, and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”
During his Green Bay rally, Trump talked about the Southern Border under President Joe Biden and Harris.
“Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world, from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals to assault, rape and murder our women and girls,” he said.
Trump then discussed conversations with his staff on whether he should profess that he specifically wants to protect women from the consequences of an unsecured border.
According to Trump, his advisers suggested that Democrat women want to keep the border open and might not “like it.”
“I said, well, I’m going to do it,” he told the crowd before being met with cheers.
“Whether the women like it or not, I’m going to protect them.
“I’m going to protect them from migrants coming in.
“I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles, and lots of other things.”
Harris told reporters that “this is just the latest in a series of revelations by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency.”
Trump is notably against a federal abortion ban and has emphasized that he wants the issue to remain in the individual states.
Nevertheless, Harris and the Democrats continue to make false claims about Trump’s position on abortion.
The vice president referred to state-level abortion restrictions as a “Trump abortion ban,” claiming, “one in three women live in a Trump abortion ban state and has legal restrictions on the right she rightly should have to make decisions about her own body.”
In a 2023 survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the nuance of public sentiment on abortion was revealed in greater detail.
While most Americans believed that abortion should be legal to a certain extent, opinions changed drastically when the 15-week and 24-week markers were addressed.
Overall, nearly three-quarters believed in legal abortion at six weeks, including more than half of Republicans.
However, just 51% supported legal abortion at 15 weeks, and only 27% backed it as far as 24 weeks.
The poll was conducted June 22-26, 2023, and featured 1,220 respondents.
The margin of error was +/- 3.9 percentage points.