Trump fields tough questions during Univision town hall

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has faced pointed questions during a town hall-style event for Univision, the country’s leading Spanish-language network, as well being asked what he likes about his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris.

Trump fielded questions about immigration, guns and abortion, including whether he agrees with his wife Melania whose says in a new memoir that she supports abortion rights.

“Do you agree with her?,” he was asked.

Trump said he encourages Melania to support what she wants to support – and plugged the book.

As for the justices he picked for the US Supreme Court overturning the Roe v Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights, he said it “is what everybody wanted for 52 years”.

“This issue has torn our country apart,” Trump said, claiming that the country will now “heal”.

Trump was questioned why “your own vice president doesn’t want to support you now”.

The question came from a man asking about the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol when thousands of Trump supporters attempted to stop then-vice president Mike Pence’s certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump insisted “that was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions”.

Asked to name three things about Democratic presidential nominee Harris he likes, Trump said “She seems to have an ability to survive”.

“Because she was out of the race, and all of a sudden she’s running for president,” Trump added.

The vice president ended her Democratic primary campaign in 2020 and emerged as the nominee four years later after President Joe Biden dropped out.

“That’s a great ability that some people have, and some people don’t have,” Trump said, adding “she seems to have some pretty longtime friendships”.

“And she seems to have a nice way about her,” Trump said.

A coalition of Republicans backing Harris will campaign with the Democratic presidential nominee in pivotal Pennsylvania on Wednesday before she sits down with Fox News with anchor Bret Baier for an interview airing at 6pm EST.