Vice President Kamala Harris responded to the former president for the first time Donald Trump’s comments on former Rep. Liz Cheneysaying his rhetoric targeting his political opponents has become increasingly violent.

“It has to be disqualifying,” she told reporters after arriving in Wisconsin for a series of campaign events. “Anyone who wants to be president of the United States and uses this kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.”

Harris said she hadn’t spoken to Cheney since Trump attacked her during a live interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday, but called her a “true patriot” who put the nation above of his party.

“I know Liz Cheney well enough to know that she is tough, incredibly courageous and has proven herself to be a true patriot during a very difficult time our country is going through,” Harris said.

The vice president accused Trump of pitting Americans against each other and said he spent “a lot of time plotting revenge” against his political opponents.

“His list of enemies has grown. His rhetoric has become more extreme and he is even less focused than before on the needs, concerns and challenges facing the American people,” Harris said.

She reiterated her plan to “be a president for all Americans.”

“America deserves better than what Donald Trump is offering,” Harris said. “America deserves a president who understands our role and our responsibility to our people and to the rest of the world to be a role model.”

In addition to criticizing Trump for his remarks about Cheney, Harris condemned her Republican opponent for saying at a Nevada rally that if elected, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would serve in the second Trump administration to “work on the health and condition of women. health.”

Harris said Kennedy had “regularly promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories” and “is exactly the last person in America who should be setting health care policy for American families and children.”