Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “fascist” on Wednesday and said he is “increasingly unhinged,” after a former aide to the Republican claimed that he praised Adolf Hitler.
The candidates raise their tone with 13 days left until elections in which they are neck and neck in the polls.
Americans do not want “to have a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist,” the Democratic presidential candidate said last night at an event organized by CNN to answer questions from voters.
The presenter asked him: “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”
“Yes, I do,” she answered in Pennsylvania, one of the seven states that can decide the outcome of the election on November 5.
Hours earlier, he harshly attacked his Republican rival, after former Marine General John Kelly estimated that the former president fits the definition of a fascist.
According to the former military man, the magnate “commented more than once: ‘You know, Hitler also did some good things.'”
“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who was responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the safeguards against his tendencies and actions,” he said.
According to her, Trump wants “unchecked power,” with “an army that is loyal to him,” rather than to the Constitution.
Thus warming up the engines for Tuesday when, according to her team, the former prosecutor will deliver a “final argument” against Trump in Washington, in the place where the former president harangued his supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, reported a manager of his campaign.
– “Desperate” –
Trump’s campaign team believes that the Democrat “is increasingly desperate because she is faltering and her campaign is in ruins.”
“That’s why it continues to spread outright lies and falsehoods that are easy to refute,” spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Trump campaigned in another key state, Georgia, where he did not mention an accusation revealed by The Guardian by a former model who claims that the millionaire groped her. He was introduced to her, she said, by sex crimes financier Jeffrey Epstein.
However, the Republican gave free rein to his anti-immigrant rhetoric again.
He listed several cases of youth crimes attributed to migrants and complained about the number of foreigners in an irregular situation arriving in American cities.
«They have to go. I’m sorry. “No one can survive” with this number of migrants, he stated at a rally.
“I will rescue every town, and every petrified town, even if they don’t have them, because they know they are coming,” he added.
He again promised that to accelerate the expulsions of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs he will invoke a law from 1798.
Republicans accuse Democrats of not doing enough to prevent illegal border crossings on the border with Mexico.
Harris dodged the question about whether she wants to build a border wall like the one Trump started.
“I want to strengthen our border,” he replied after saying that he “really didn’t do much” during his term.
– «I needed a prayer» –
The vice president confirmed that when President Joe Biden called her in July to tell her that he was passing the baton, she called a pastor.
“I needed that kind of spiritual connection, I needed that advice, I needed a prayer,” he said.
It was “comforting for me,” she said, adding that she prays every day, “sometimes twice a day.”
On Thursday Harris, 60, will participate in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, in the first campaign event with former President Barack Obama. And it will feature rocker Bruce Springsteen, nicknamed “The Boss.”
On Saturday he will campaign with Michelle Obama, this time in Michigan.