副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯抨击前总统唐纳德·特朗普周四，说他的运动集会誓言保护女性“不管她们喜不喜欢”，这是“对所有人的冒犯”。
哈里斯在威斯康辛州接受记者采访时说:“我认为，这实际上是对女性的一种冒犯，因为她们不理解自己的权力、权利以及为自己的生活做出决定的能力，包括自己的身体。”。
哈里斯很快改变了她的说法，说:“这是对每个人的冒犯。”
周三晚上，在威斯康星州格林湾的集会上，特朗普试图吸引女性选民。
“我想保护我们国家的妇女，”特朗普说。
他说，他的言论违背了他的顾问的指导，他声称这些顾问称该声明“非常不恰当”
“我说为什么?我是总统。我想保护我们国家的妇女，”特朗普在热烈的掌声中说道。
这位前总统补充道，“我说，‘好吧，不管女士们喜不喜欢，我都要做。我将保护他们，我将保护他们免受移民的侵扰，我将保护他们免受那些想用导弹袭击我们的外国的侵扰——以及许多其他事情。"
离大选日还有不到一周的时间，两位候选人都在努力争取摇摆不定的选民，为入主白宫做最后的努力。
根据对最新民调的分析，特朗普发表了关于保护威斯康星州妇女的评论，这是一个哈里斯以微弱优势领先的战场州美国广播公司新闻538。两位候选人都在努力吸引女性，让她们知道堕胎是选民关心的一个重要问题。
根据最近的一项调查，民调显示哈里斯在女性中领先特朗普9个百分点(56%比42%)ABC新闻/益普索民意调查.
哈里斯迅速抨击了特朗普的言论，她在周三晚上发布的一份声明中说在社交媒体上“唐纳德·特朗普认为他应该对你如何对待自己的身体做出决定。不管你喜不喜欢。”
哈里斯的竞选发言人沙拉菲娜·奇蒂卡也开始使用社交媒体，发帖称，“唐纳德·特朗普认为他比美国女性更了解。对他来说，我们的选择无关紧要，我们的决定由他来控制，不管我们喜欢与否，他都将在全国范围内禁止堕胎。”
周四，哈里斯继续抨击特朗普的言论。
哈里斯说:“这只是这位前总统关于他如何看待妇女和他们的机构的一系列披露中的最新一个，他是否说过-正如他所说的那样-妇女应该为他们的选择受到惩罚，他是否谈到他对剥夺妇女的基本权利感到自豪，他是否实际上在美国创造了一种局面，现在有三分之一的妇女生活在特朗普堕胎禁令州，并对她有权对自己的身体做出决定的权利进行了法律限制。”
哈里斯补充说，“每天，我认为也有迹象表明，我们从我的对手那里收到了验证，确认和加强这样一个事实，即他不会为妇女的生殖权利而斗争，他不会优先考虑妇女的自由和妇女对自己的生活和身体做出决定的智慧。”
特朗普在周三的威斯康星州集会上出现在一辆垃圾车上，车上有他的名字，穿着一件荧光橙色的背心，就像环卫工人穿的那样，以表明对乔·拜登总统本周在一次竞选电话会议上的讲话的看法，他在讲话中似乎将特朗普的支持者与“垃圾”联系起来。
拜登和白宫试图澄清他的言论，称他特指喜剧演员托尼欣奇克利夫，他在周日的麦迪逊广场花园集会上称波多黎各为“漂浮的垃圾岛”。
特朗普和其他共和党领导人猛烈抨击拜登的评论，声称他们认为拜登谈论的是所有“特朗普支持者”，而不是特定的“特朗普支持者”与垃圾的关系。
本周早些时候，曾在特朗普政府担任联合国大使的妮基·黑利在接受采访时说福克斯新闻频道的布雷特·拜尔她认为前总统是国家经济、国家安全和她自己家庭的最佳选择。
“和唐纳德·特朗普在一起，我们知道我们会得到什么。我们经历了唐纳德·特朗普治下的经济。我们知道他在边境有多强大。我们知道我们在能源上有多占优势，我们也知道我们的国家安全看起来像什么，”哈利在周二播出的采访中说。
哈利警告特朗普竞选团队保持纪律，专注于这些问题。
“现在不是任何人批评波多黎各或拉丁美洲人的时候，”哈利说。“现在不是让他们的兄弟关系变得过于男性化的时候。53%的选民是女性。女性将投票。他们关心如何与他们交谈，他们关心这些问题。”
特朗普在第二天发表了保护女性的言论，这也是在纽约陪审团发现特朗普大约六个月后对电池负责作家让·卡罗尔(E. Jean Carroll)对他提起民事诉讼，指控特朗普在20世纪90年代在波道夫·古德曼百货公司(Bergdorf Goodman)的更衣室对她进行了性虐待。
陪审团在诉讼中判给卡罗尔总计500万美元。该小组认定特朗普没有强奸卡罗尔，而是对她进行了性虐待，并判给她200万美元的补偿性赔偿金和2万美元的惩罚性殴打赔偿金。陪审团还裁定了100万美元的赔偿金:170万美元用于名誉修复，28万美元用于名誉损害的惩罚性赔偿。
特朗普否认了卡罗尔对他的指控。
今年5月，特朗普被判有罪34项重罪与2016年支付给成人电影女演员斯托米·丹尼尔斯的封口费有关，以使她对婚外情保持沉默，这是历史上第一次美国前总统因刑事指控被定罪。在审判期间，特朗普的前律师迈克尔·科恩作证说，他代表特朗普向丹尼尔斯支付封口费，以提高特朗普在2016年总统大选中的选举前景。
在2016年总统竞选期间，特朗普被抓到在一个热麦克风上向前“《走进好莱坞》”主持人比利·布什吹嘘他如何抓住女性的生殖器。特朗普后来将他的言论斥为“更衣室玩笑”。
Harris seizes on Trump's pledge to protect women 'whether they like it or not'
Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former PresidentDonald Trumpon Thursday, saying hiscampaignrally pledge to protect women "whether they like it or not" was "offensive to everybody."
"It's just -- it's actually is, I think, very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies," Harris told reporters in Wisconsin.
Harris quickly rephrased her statement, saying, "It is offensive to everybody."
During the rally at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday night, Trump attempted to appeal to women voters.
"I want to protect the women of our country," said Trump.
He said his remarks went against guidance from his advisers, whom he claimed had called the statement "very inappropriate."
"I said why? I'm the president. I want to protect the women of our country," Trump said to loud applause.
The former president added, "I said, 'Well, I'm going to do it 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."
With less than a week until Election Day, both candidates are working to sway undecided voters and make their final pitches in their bid for the White House.
Trump made the comments about protecting women in Wisconsin, a battleground state where Harris narrowly leads, according to an analysis of the latest polls byABC News' 538. Both candidates are working to appeal to women in a year that abortion is a key voter issue.
Polling shows that Harris leads Trump by 9 points (56% to 42%) among women, according to a recentABC News/Ipsos poll.
Harris quickly pounced on Trump's remarks, saying in a statement she posted Wednesday nighton social media, "Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not."
Sarafina Chitika, Harris' campaign spokesperson, alsotook to social media, posting, "Donald Trump thinks he knows better than the women of America. To him, our choices don't matter, our decisions are his to control, and he's going to ban abortion nationwide whether we like it or not."
On Thursday, Harris continued to blast Trump's comments.
"This is just the latest on a series of reveals by the former president of how he thinks about women and their agency, whether he has said -- as he has -- that women should be punished for their choices, whether he has talked about his pride in taking away a fundamental right from women, whether it be how he has actually created a situation in America where now 1 in 3 women lives in a Trump abortion ban state and has legal restrictions on the right she rightly should have to make decisions about her own body," Harris said.
Harris added, "Each day, I think there are also indications that we are receiving from my opponent that verify, validate and reinforce the fact that he's not going to be fighting for women's reproductive rights, he does not prioritize the freedom of women and the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives and bodies."
Trump showed up to Wednesday's Wisconsin rally in a garbage truck bearing his name on the side and wearing a fluorescent-orange vest, like those worn by sanitation workers, to make a point about President Joe Biden's remarks at a campaign call this week during which he seemed to link Trump supporters and "garbage."
Biden and the White House tried toclarify his remarks, saying he was specifically referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
Trump and other Republican leaders pounced on Biden's comment, claiming they believed that Biden was talking about all "Trump supporters" rather than a specific "Trump supporter's" relationship to garbage.
Earlier this week, Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, said in an interview withFox News' Bret Baierthat she believes the former president is the best choice for
"With Donald Trump we know what we're going to get. We lived the economy under Donald Trump. We know how strong he was on the border. We know how energy dominant we were, and then we also know what our national security looked like," Haley said in the interview, which aired Tuesday.
Haley cautioned the Trump campaign to remain disciplined and focused on the issues.
"This is not a time to have anyone criticize Puerto Rico or Latinos," Haley said. "This is not a time to get overly masculine with this bromance thing they've got going. Fifty-three percent of the electorate are women. Women will vote. They care about how they are being talked to and they care about the issues."
Trump voiced his comments about protecting women the following day, which was also about six months after a New York jury found Trumpliable for batteryand defamation in a civil case brought against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, who claimed Trump sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the 1990s.
The jury awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in the lawsuit. The panel found that Trump did not rape Carroll but sexually abused her, and awarded damages of $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for battery. The jury also awarded $1 million in damages: $1.7 million for reputation repair and $280,000 in punitive damages, for defamation.
Trump has denied the accusations leveled against him by Carroll.
In May, Trump was found guilty on all34 felony countsrelated to a 2016 hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her silent about an affair, marking the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been convicted on criminal charges. During the trial, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified that he made the hush-money payments to Daniels on behalf of Trump to boost Trump's electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump was caught on a hot mic boasting to former "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush about how he grabbed women by the genitals. Trump later dismissed his remarks as "locker room banter."
