Election 2024 live updates: Harris meets with Biden; Trump holds Pennsylvania rally

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke on the Senate floor this morning and criticized Trump’s comments about Harris and Jewish Americans.

“He knows precisely what he is doing. He is sowing the seeds of division. He is propagating naked antisemitism,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump’s comments were reprehensible, dangerous, and proof that he is disturbingly at ease with antisemitic rhetoric. It might be tempting to listen what Donald Trump said on the radio and tune it out just as another Trump insult, but that would be a mistake.”

Yesterday, Trump participated in an interview with WABC in New York in which he criticized Harris, saying “Number one, she doesn’t like Israel. Number two, she doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.”

In the same interview, Trump also appeared to agree with the host’s remarks that Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, was a “crappy Jew.”

When asked if he meant to agree with the host, Sid Rosenberg, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement, “He obviously wasn’t agreeing with that sentiment. Stop taking talking points and transcripts from the Kamala folks.”