Harris challenges Trump to cognitive test in response to jabs from Republican about her IQ

US Vice-President Kamala Harris said on Monday she would take a cognitive test in response to jabs from Donald Trump, and challenged the ex-president to take one too as mental fitness becomes a battle line in the White House race.

Democratic candidate Harris has repeatedly said her 78-year-old Republican opponent, now the oldest presidential candidate in US history, is increasingly “unhinged” and unfit to lead the country again.

Trump has, meanwhile, called the 60-year-old vice-president stupid, attacking her IQ in his pitch to voters in a race that the polls suggest is effectively tied.

Trump speaks during Turning Point’s United for Change rally at the Thomas & Mack Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday. Photo: Las Vegas Review-Journal / TNS

Harris was asked in a CBS interview segment released on Monday if she would take a cognitive test, as Trump had called for on social media.

“Sure. I would challenge him to take the same one,” Harris said.

“This is what he has resorted to. I think he is actually increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people,” she added.

Harris’ attacks on Trump’s fitness focused last week on revelations from his longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly.

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