Kamala Harris calls Trump a 'fascist' as she argues he's 'dangerous' and unfit for office
Quote:
Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump a “fascist” at a CNN town hall Wednesday in Pennsylvania — echoing his onetime chief of staff's criticism as she makes a more vocal pitch to voters that he is unfit for office.
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” host Anderson Cooper asked Harris.
“Yes, I do. Yes, I do,” she replied.
Later, she used the word herself to refer to Trump for the first time in public, saying voters care about “not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”
“I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous,” she continued. “As the president of the United States, the commander in chief, he’s saying to his generals, in essence, why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals? Come on!”
Harris has more forcefully been arguing in recent days that Trump is unfit for office. On Wednesday, after Kelly's remarks became public, she gave remarks to emphasize them and criticize Trump.
Harris noted she has the support of Republicans concerned about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, such as former Rep. Liz Cheney, who has been campaigning for her this week. And Harris vowed that, unlike Trump, she would be a “president for all Americans.”
Trump posted to X and Truth Social moments after the town hall ended, arguing that Harris "sees that she is losing," so she "is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind."
After the town hall, Harris spoke directly with an attendee who asked her about abortion — telling him that she wasn't trying to convert him to her way of thinking and that her abortion position wasn't about disagreeing with anyone's religious views but instead about keeping the government out of the decision.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, polls show a deadlocked race, with analysts saying it is essentially a coin-flip, with each battleground state able to flip either way.
Later in the town hall, Harris opened up about her religious faith in a way she rarely does.
“I do pray every day. Sometimes twice a day,” she said, before she recounted her childhood church in Oakland, California. “I was raised to believe in a loving God. To believe that your faith is a verb. You live your faith and that the way that one should do that is your work and your life’s work is to think about ways you can serve that is uplifting other people.”
Meanwhile, halfway across the country in Traverse City, Michigan, Trump used a 90-minute speech to continue personal insults, calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, “a sick guy,” referring to Harris as “a low IQ individual” and adding, “This woman is crazy.”
Trump also repeatedly criticized Detroit, the biggest city in the crucial swing state of Michigan, saying that “it’s been decimated by stupid politicians.”
“For 40 years, I’ve been hearing about Detroit’s coming back. Never came back,” he said later.
Trump’s speech, often meandering, hit many of his usual talking points, demonizing migrants as coming from prisons and insane asylums, highlighting cases of crimes allegedly committed by migrants and spending a lot of time discussing the southern border.
“I will rescue every town across America that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious, bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell out of the country,” he said about migrants.
During a part of his remarks discussing Hurricane Helene’s flood damage, he referred to the disaster as “a water hurricane,” a comment the Harris campaign quickly highlighted on social media.
Putting aside if Trump is actually a fascist, with less then two weeks to go before the election and over nine years into the Trump phenomenon the Harris campaign is still playing whack a mole with messaging, trying to figure out what sticks. First it was “joy”, then “brat summer”, then MAGA’s are “weird”, then implying Trump is senile, now its borrowing from the unsuccessful Hillary playbook and taking it step further by actually using the word fascist.
This election should have been a no brainer because unlike 2016 we have precedent of Trump winning, years of evidence he won’t fundamentally change, Jan 6, a conviction, and being held libel for fraud and rape.
It is true that because of the unusual circumstances they did not have much time to get a campaign together and figure these things out, but this is a situation they created. Harris did not do her constitutional duty and invoke the 25th amendment. This was the consensus of the party because Biden beat Trump in 2020, ignoring consistent polling that showed Biden’s senility was a big problem, and that
Harris was just as much if not more unelectable then Biden.
_________________
Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013
DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
Last edited by ASPartOfMe on 24 Oct 2024, 5:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
24 Oct 2024, 5:12 am
