On a night when Barack Obama joined Kamala Harris onstage at a star-studded rally in Georgia, Donald J. Trump was smarting on the other side of the country — asking why Mr. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and not him.
Mr. Trump challenged Mr. Obama’s qualifications for the award while campaigning in Las Vegas, the second stop on a swing through two western states where he and Ms. Harris are locked in a tight race.
“He didn’t even know why the hell he got it,” said Mr. Trump, who had spent years trying to undermine the legitimacy of the country’s first Black president with baseless claims about his citizenship.
Mr. Trump suggested he was more deserving of the honor than his predecessor in the White House, saying his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, twice for emphasis.
“I got elected in a much bigger, better, crazier election, but they gave him the Nobel Prize,” he said.
With 12 days until Election Day, Mr. Trump sharpened his attacks on Ms. Harris over immigration on Thursday, using the speech in Nevada and another in Arizona to gin up support for his plans to begin the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if elected.
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