BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised US Vice President Kamala Harris as a “competent and skilled” politician who may properly win the US election, however he stopped in need of endorsing her over Republican Donald Trump.
Scholz had been unusually direct in his endorsement of US Joe Biden earlier than the latter dropped his reelection bid final weekend and endorsed Harris because the Democratic Occasion’s candidate to face Trump within the November election.
Many German politicians concern Trump may impose larger tariffs on imports if he returned to workplace, they usually have raised questions on US help for the NATO navy alliance.
Germany was incessantly the main target of Trump’s ire throughout his first time period as a consequence of its commerce surplus with the USA and low spending on defence. Berlin has nonetheless lately upped its defence spending.
“The election marketing campaign within the USA will definitely be thrilling, now with a barely new line-up and a brand new constellation,” Scholz advised an annual summer season information convention on Wednesday.
“I believe it is vitally potential that Kamala Harris will win the election, however the American voters will determine.”
Scholz stated he had met Harris a number of occasions.
“It is a competent and skilled politician who is aware of precisely what she is doing,” he stated. “She is aware of what she desires and what she will do.”