‘Surprised’ that Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate: Donald Trump

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was surprised that his rival Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 US Presidential elections since she has been nasty to him, PTI reported. 

On Tuesday, Biden named Harris as his Vice-Presidential, who has become the first woman of colour to be running for the second-highest political position in the country.

55-year-old Harris’ father is an African from Jamaica and mother an Indian. She is currently serving as a senator for California.

“We’ll see how she works out. She did very, very poorly in the primaries as you know. She was expected to do well. She ended up at right around 2%,” Trump told reporters at the White House, on Tuesday, PTI reported.

“She had a lot of things happening and so I was a little surprised that he (Biden) picked her. I’ve been watching her for a long time, and I was a little surprised,” he added.

Responding to questions, Trump said that Harris has been nasty to Biden.

As far as Kamala is concerned, she’s a big tax raiser. She’s a big slasher of funds for our military. And she’s got a lot of difficult things that she’s going to have to explain. Plus she was very, very nasty to–one of the reasons it surprised me–she was very–she was probably nastier than even Pocahontas to Joe Biden. She was very disrespectful to Joe Biden,” Trump said. 

“It’s hard to pick somebody that’s that disrespectful when she said things during the debates–during the Democrat primary debates that were horrible about sleepy Joe. And I would think that he wouldn’t have picked,” said the US president.

Harris launched her presidential campaign in January 2019. But as her campaign couldn’t take off, she withdrew from the race. She and Biden clashed on several occasions during the debates.

Responding to questions by reporters, Trump went on to call Harris “the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the US Senate.”