Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "That was a very embarrassing performance by Donald Trump. 'Harris also attacked Trump when she said to Rudolph: "You can do something your opponent can't: you can open doors." She was obviously referring to a scene from Trump's election campaign: The 78-year-old had appeared with a garbage truck in reference to a controversial statement by President Joe Biden - and had repeatedly missed the door handle when getting into the driver's cab.' My grandmother, who is over 90, can do that much better. She would have climbed into the garbage truck like a squirrel. Donald Trump moved as if in slow motion and repeatedly missed the door handle. How embarrassing for old Don! Everyone could see how things really are with him."

Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "That was a very embarrassing performance by Donald Trump. 'Harris also attacked Trump when she said to Rudolph: "You can do something your opponent can't: you can open doors." She was obviously referring to a scene from Trump's election campaign: The 78-year-old had appeared with a garbage truck in reference to a controversial statement by President Joe Biden - and had repeatedly missed the door handle when getting into the driver's cab.' My grandmother, who is over 90, can do that much better. She would have climbed into the garbage truck like a squirrel. Donald Trump moved as if in slow motion and repeatedly missed the door handle. How embarrassing for old Don! Everyone could see how things really are with him." ------------------------------------------------------- DER SPIEGEL US election campaign: Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Life, Donald Trump as the "father of fertilization" 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time A few days before the US election, the candidates are trying to score points in their own way: Kamala Harris made fun of herself on the TV show "Saturday Night Life". Donald Trump commented on the topic of artificial insemination. Instead of campaign speeches, the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris tried to promote herself on Saturday evening on the comedy show "Saturday Night Live". In a brief appearance on the extremely popular TV show, the 60-year-old not only made fun of herself, but also mocked her competitor Donald Trump. For the sketch, Harris sat opposite her TV reflection - the actress who repeatedly slips into the role of the Democrat on the show. "Am I really laughing like that?" Harris asked, for example, when Rudolph took aim at her famous laugh. Then the two made fun of typical campaign phrases and shouted "Believe in America's promise" at about the same time. Harris also attacked Trump when she said to Rudolph: "You can do something your opponent can't: you can open doors." She was obviously referring to a scene from Trump's election campaign: The 78-year-old had appeared with a garbage truck in reference to a controversial statement by President Joe Biden - and had repeatedly missed the door handle when getting into the driver's cab. Campaign appearances in North Carolina Before that, both Harris and Trump had appeared on Saturday in the contested swing state of North Carolina - less than a hundred kilometers apart within a few hours. There, Harris had attacked Trump head-on: He was "increasingly unstable," obsessed with revenge and out for uncontrolled power. (Read the SPIEGEL cover about the final stretch of the election campaign between the two candidates here.) Trump, in turn, called Harris an "individual with a low IQ" in his campaign speech in Greensboro, North Carolina. Trump also addressed the issue of artificial insemination, with which he hopes to win votes from women and families. Trump stressed that Harris is lying when she claims that he is against artificial insemination. "I consider myself the father of insemination," said the 78-year-old, repeating a line he had already used in a campaign speech in mid-October. Trump announced in the summer that the US government would pay for artificial insemination, also known as in vitro fertilization (IVF), if he won the presidential election on November 5. Alternatively, insurance companies should be forced to pay for the treatment. Both are unusual positions for Republicans. But it is Trump's attempt to win votes from women who are critical of him because of his fight against abortion. The issue of artificial insemination has been particularly controversial in the USA since the Supreme Court of the US state of Alabama ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos count as children. Several clinics in the southern state subsequently suspended their respective treatments because too many legal questions remained unanswered. The ruling is in line with the theory advocated by anti-abortion activists that embryos and fetuses should be considered children and enjoy legal protection.