Calif. Dem. Senate candidate: Trump ‘unfit’ to be president

California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D), who is running for the state’s open Senate seat, said at a campaign stop Monday that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is “unfit” to serve as president.

{mosads}Harris, a candidate for the seat being vacated by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who is retiring, condemned Trump’s recent criticism of Judge Gonzalo Curiel regarding his “Mexican heritage” and questioned the real estate mogul’s ability to nominate judges to the bench.

“Let’s just talk about the job [of] being president in terms of the technical responsibilities … the constitutional responsibilities of being president of the United States,” Harris said at a campaign event in Santa Barbara, Calif.

“One of them is to nominate federal judges and members of the United States Supreme Court and do it in a way that is without bias and do it in a way that is in the best interest of our country,” she said.

“And he has just told us the fact that someone’s Latino disqualified them from being a judge, he has told us the same thing about Muslims. Can that person be president of the United States of America?”

Last week, Trump questioned whether Curiel, who was born in Indiana, could be impartial as he oversees lawsuits against Trump University. During an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he said also it’s “absolutely” possible he’d be treated unfairly by a Muslim judge.

Harris is considered the front-runner in California’s “jungle primary” on Tuesday, where all candidates run against one another regardless of party, with the top two moving on to the general election. 

She will square off against Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) and Republican rivals Tom Del Beccaro and Duf Sundheim.