Donald Trump launched a personal attack on his Democrat Kamala Harris even asking if she was “on drugs” during an interview on US television.
The former president hurled insults as the race to the White House enters its final phase with US voters set to the polls on November 4.
Speaking at an event on Tuesday aimed at winning Latino votes Republican candidate Mr Trump laid into his opponent suggesting she was “lazy as hell” for not holding a campaign event.
However, the vice president had on the same day held a series of meetings in Washington and was being interviewed by a series of media outlets as she makes her pitch to the electorate in a race most pundits are describing as ‘too close to call’.
On her performance on CBS flagship news interview show 60 Minutes he later told a rally in Greensboro, north Carolina: “Listen, '60 minutes,' she was so bad, she gave an answer - this never happened to me ... she gave an answer that was so bad that they changed it.
“They took it out, threw it out. They didn't like edit it a little bit ... She didn't know where the hell she was doing.
“Does she drink?' he questioned. 'Is she on drugs? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea.”
Mr Trump also referred to the Democrat as "slow" and having a "low IQ", during a string of insults aimed at his opponent on Tuesday.
The former president had also implied that Ms Harris, a one-time California attorney general and US senator, became the Democratic nominee because of her race and gender.
He said to crowds at a Miami rally: "She's running because they want to be politically correct.”
Mr Trump’s slurs against Ms Harris and her work ethic were also an attack line he used in disparaging Joe Biden.
He accused the former president of campaigning from his basement, even as Mr Trump continued to hold large events during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Meanwhile Sir Keir Starmer has insisted his relationship with Mr Trump is not in jeopardy after the presidential candidate’s campaign claimed the Labour Party was interfering in the US election.
A statement on Mr Trump’s website, DonaldJTrump.com on Tuesday night announced an official complaint had been filed with US federal election officials, and claimed the Labour Party had “made, and the Harris campaign has accepted, illegal foreign national contributions”.
The complaint follows reports of senior Labour officials meeting with Kamala Harris’ campaign, and Labour Party staffers volunteering on the ground for her campaign.
Asked if it was a mistake for senior staffers to have met with the Harris campaign, Sir Keir insisted any members of his party were in the US on an entirely voluntary basis, similar to in previous elections.
