‘Two evils’: The Pope slams Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

Pope Francis entered the US election fray with a stunning rebuke of two presidential candidates both ‘against life’, as he answers the question of who is more ‘evil’.

Pope Francis said a vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris was a choice between the “lesser of two evils”.

In a remarkable entry into the US presidential race, the Pontiff said he didn’t know who was worse - the person who kills children or who deports migrants.

It comes as Mr Trump announced he would visit Springfield, Ohio, amid unproven reports that Haitian migrants were eating pet cats and wild geese.

“They are both against life. The one who throws away the migrants as well as the one who kills children,” Pope Francis said when asked how to choose between the two candidates.

“Both are against life,” he said. “Everyone with a conscience should think on this and do it.”

After much pontification, Pope Francis could not decide who was the lesser of two evils, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Picture: AFP

During their first, and currently only, face-to-face debate, Ms Harris refused to disavow late-term abortions while Mr Trump claimed immigrants were “eating the dogs... they’re eating the cats.”

Immigration and access to abortion are two of the most consequential election issues that could tip the neck-and-neck election race to either the Republicans or the Democrats.

Pope Francis denounced both Mr Trump and Ms Harris with an impassioned defence of migrants and unborn babies.

Pope Francis described abortion as an “assassination” and said it was “evil” to reject migrants.

“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman?” he asked. “I don’t know.”

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TRUMP TO VISIT OHIO AMID ‘DOGS AND CATS’ CLAIM

Donald Trump said the “largest deportation in the history” of the United States would begin in Ohio - the centre claims Haitian migrants are eating wild geese and pet cats.

The former president said he would visit the small towns of Springfield and Aurora after he sensationally claimed migrants were “eating the dogs... they’re eating the cats”.

“We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio,” Mr Trump said. “We’re going to get these people out.

“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we’re going to start with Springfield, and Aurora.

President Joe Biden hit out at Mr Trump over the claims of migrants eating wild geese and domestic cats, which have not been definitively proven.

Mr Biden said the Haitian community was “under attack: in the country.

“It’s simply wrong. There’s no place in America -- this has to stop, what he’s doing. It has to stop,” Mr Biden said.

Donald Trump announced he would visit Springfield, Ohio, where the largest deportations in the history of the United States would begin. Picture: AFP

OHIO SCHOOLS EVACUATED

Schools were evacuated Friday for a second day in a row in the small Ohio town of Springfield, according to local media, amid anti-Haitian-immigrant tensions stoked by Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

Springfield’s authorities closed a middle school and evacuated two elementary schools, the local Springfield News-Sun newspaper and other media reported.

The disruptions -- which come after similar evacuations Thursday in reaction to a bomb threat -- followed an unspecified warning from the Springfield police department, the reports said.

The head of the local Haitian community centre, Viles Dorsainvil, told AFP that the FBI was also investigating threatening phone calls to the organisation.

Originally published as ‘Two evils’: The Pope slams Donald Trump and Kamala Harris