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US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that her election rival Donald Trump was “demeaning” the office of president with his crude language, a day after the Republican insulted her with a profanity.

In an interview broadcast on US channel MSNBC, Harris said Trump’s comments were an insult to the office and a denigration of the moral authority of the United States internationally.

“What you see from my opponent, a former president of the United States, really demeans the office,” she said in response to a question about the comments.

Speaking at a rally in the key swing state of Pennsylvania on Saturday, Trump called Harris “a shitty vice president,” drawing loud applause from his supporters.

With just over two weeks to go before Election Day, polls show Harris and Trump in a neck-and-neck race for the presidency, including in the key swing states that will decide the US election.

Trump has increasingly gone off script at campaign rallies, using coarse and sometimes bizarre language.

During the same event Saturday in Pennsylvania, he referenced the genitals of a famous male golfer.

Harris told MSNBC that the former president should not be allowed to lead the country again.

“Donald Trump should never stand behind the seal of the President of the United States again. He hasn’t earned the right,” she said.

She added that Trump’s comments disparaged the United States’ “earned and self-proclaimed authority” to speak on issues such as democracy and the rule of law.