Harris says she's willing to take cognitive test and challenges Trump to do the same after he called her 'mentally impaired'



Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Republican former President Donald Trump to a cognitive test in the last week of the presidential campaign.

Trump had mocked Harris as having cognitive problems and even called her "mentally impaired" at one point.

'Obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.'

"Kamala is mentally impaired," said Trump in Wisconsin. "Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way!"

On Monday, CBS News reported that Harris had agreed to take a cognitive test and was challenging Trump to do the same.

"This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people," said Harris of Trump in the interview with CBS.

Trump has hammered Harris at various events and mocked her intelligence.

"She’s got bigger cognitive problems” than President Joe Biden, he said at a rally in Georgia.

“She is a very dumb person, and we can’t do that. We can’t do that. I don’t want to be rude,” he said at an event in Pennsylvania.

However, when the Republican National Committee was asked about the comments, RNC co-chair Lara Trump walked them back a bit.

“This is Donald Trump, and he has never tried to make himself out to be anyone other than who he is,” said the daughter-in-law of the former president. “And obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.”

In the CBS interview, Harris acknowledged that the election was very close.

"It's a presidential race. And it should be close," she said. "In all honesty, I'm seeing a lot of enthusiasm around our campaign."

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‘SPIRITUAL WAR’: Trump softened his pro-life stance — but you should vote for him anyways



Former President Donald Trump may have softened his pro-life stance, but Americans can’t let that deter them from stopping Kamala Harris in her tracks.

Rusty Reno, the editor for First Things, believes this wholeheartedly, as this is a spiritual war that we have to win.

“There’s kind of a referendum about what kind of country we’re going to have going forward, or even the future of Western civilization,” Reno tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“Rapid demographic change, declines in fertility — we’re undergoing some pretty dramatic cultural changes, and I think that I go into the election thinking that it’s not just a decision about policy, it’s really a kind of spiritual-cultural decision about what kind of country, what kind of civilization we’re going to have,” he explains.

“So the stakes are high indeed,” Peterson comments.

According to Reno, the world appears to be split between “two fundamentally different worldviews” and that it’s “almost as if we’re living in separate realities.”

While the extreme progressives and conservatives have been discussing civil war, he doesn’t believe it will come to that.

“I think that’s overblown, precisely because the middle 60% is not engaged in the same passionate way that the two sides are,” he explains. “But by the end of the decade, I think we will be going either one direction or the other as a country.”

And for the sake of our country, that direction should be right.

“There are two things to keep in mind. One is we’re going to vote in early November, and we have a choice, and we may not like Donald Trump’s retreat from a strong pro-life stance, but the alternative is a radical, pro-abortion Democratic party,” Reno says.

“So I have no question, I have no qualms of conscience in voting for Donald Trump on the grounds that his administration is more likely to defend life than would a Democratic Party administration,” he continues.

“The second thing is that we can work at the state level, at the local level, to continue to support pro-life politicians, bring them up through the system,” he adds.


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