Donald Trump used his speech at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York to mock Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff over his affair during his first marriage.
Speaking at the star-studded white tie dinner in New York, the former president delivered a speech that was mostly good humoured and drew laughter from the crowd as he poked fun at his political opponents.
Trump advised his rival Ms Harris to keep her husband Doug Emhoff “away from the nannies”.
Acknowledging that he had an affair during his first marriage with his daughter’s teacher, Mr Emhoff said in a statement in August: “During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”
Trump also took aim at Ms Harris’s running mate Tim Walz, saying: “I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men don’t have periods, but then I met Tim Walz” – a reference to Mr Walz’s progressive stances on sanitary products and transgender rights in his home state of Minnesota.
The glitzy dinner in New York raises millions of dollars for Catholic charities and has traditionally offered candidates from both parties the chance to trade light-hearted barbs, poke fun at themselves, and show that they can get along — or at least pretend to — for one night in the election’s final stretch.