Gold Star father Khizr Khan endorses Kamala Harris for president
Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who gained national attention in 2016 for criticizing Trump, told NBC News that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
Khizr Khan, the father of a slain Muslim Army captain who gained national attention by pointedly criticizing former President Donald Trump during the Democratic National Convention in 2016, announced in an exclusive interview with NBC News that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and plans to act as a campaign surrogate for her.
In 2016, Khan denounced Trump’s treatment of Muslims and other minorities while holding a pocket-sized U.S. Constitution and challenging Trump to read the document. In his interview with NBC News on Saturday, Khan said Trump has “gotten worse” and that he fears the former president will become a dictator and end democracy as Americans know it.
“Trump is undeserving of support [from] America because he is [a] divider. He creates hatred,” Khan said. “On the other hand, Kamala Harris, our vice president, is a person who unites the country, who is for equal dignity, who is for equal opportunity for entire America. That is why I stand with Vice President Harris.”
Khan, whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed by a car bomb while serving in Iraq in 2004, also said he believes that Trump is a threat to the future of American freedoms.
“Our democracy, our rule of law, is at stake,” Khan said. “Trump has already announced his authoritarian playbook, publicly announced that this may be the last election of this country.”
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