Vice President Kamala Harris said she is “scared as heck” of the prospect that Donald Trump could become president again, though she also decried his Republican rivals during an appearance on The View.
Appearing on the influential ABC program, Harris was asked about the Trump campaign‘s commanding lead in the Republican presidential primary and what she and President Joe Biden plan to do to “stop the crazies.”
“I am scared as heck,” Harris said, “which is why I’m traveling our country.
“There’s an old saying that there are only two ways to run for office,” she continued. “Either without an opponent or scared. So on all of those points, yes, we should all be scared.”
“I am scared as heck, which is why I’m traveling our country,” says @VP Kamala Harris on #TheView when asked about the potential of a second Trump presidency. “We don’t run away from something when we’re scared. We fight back against it.” pic.twitter.com/5aFwS8QAMx
— The View (@TheView) January 17, 2024
Trump wasn’t the only GOP candidate Harris took umbrage with. She was asked about former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley‘s comment this week that the United States has “never been a racist country.”
Harris strongly disagreed.
“The history of racism in America should never be the subject of a soundbite or a question that is meant to elicit a one-sentence answer,” she said, “but there is no denying that we have in our history as a nation, racism, and that racism has played a role in the history of our nation.”
The remark drew applause from the audience.
“We cannot get to a place of progress on the issue of race by denying the existence of racism,” Harris added.
.@VP Kamala Harris responds to GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s recent comments on if America has ever been a racist country, telling #TheView “there is no denying that … racism has played a role in the history of our nation.” pic.twitter.com/yTys5xLGou
— The View (@TheView) January 17, 2024
The vice president alluded to Haley further by saying it is “not in our best interest” to “suggest that the Civil War was prompted by anything other than slavery,” a reference to Haley neglecting to mention slavery when asked about the causes of the Civil War last month. The former United Nations ambassador later clarified she thought it was “a given” that slavery was a cause.
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Harris also touched on the various rights she says are under threat if a Republican takes the White House, such as the freedom “of a woman to make decisions about her own body,” LGBT rights, the freedom “to be able to live free from gun violence,” and voter access.
“These are fundamental freedoms that are at stake right now,” Harris said.