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Kamala Harris responded directly to the question of whether she believed Donald Trump was a “fascist,” telling a CNN Town Hall in Pennsylvania: “Yes, I do.”
The former president is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
His former chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that Trump had praised Hitler multiple times, warning that the GOP candidate meets the “definition” of a fascist.
Harris opened the Town Hall on Wednesday with remarks about Kelly’s revelations, saying that he had put out a “911 call to the American people.”
“One has to think about why would someone who served with him, who is not political… why is he telling the American people now?” she said. “Frankly, I think of it as [that] he’s just putting out a 911 call to the American people to understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in the White House.”
Earlier, Harris warned that the former president is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” and in a second Trump term “people like John Kelly will no longer be there to rein him in.”
Kelly’s claims have been vehemently denied by Trump’s campaign.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris went on offense against former president Donald Trump by warning Americans that her Republican opponent is an authoritarian who doesn’t care about the needs of ordinary people.
Harris spoke to voters in Pennsylvania as part of a CNN town hall that took the place of a presidential debate that Trump refused to attend.
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Vice President Kamala Harrisplans to give a major campaign speech this coming Tuesday at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., the park just outside the White House where Donald Trump in 2021 called on his supporters to march on Congress in the moments leading up to the January 6 insurrection.
Campaign officials said the speech, a week before election day, will serve as a “closing argument,” where Harris, a former prosecutor, will make her final case against Donald Trump before a “jury” of the American people.
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Kamala Harris called herself “kind of a nerd” after she was asked what her weaknesses were during the CNN Town Hall.
“I may not be quick to have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy issue sometimes because I’m going to want to research it, I’m going to want to study it. I’m kind of a nerd sometimes, I confess,” she said.
“And some might call that a weakness, especially if you’re, you know, in an interview, or just kind of, you know, being asked a certain question and just expected to have the right answer right away. But that’s how I that’s how I work.”
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Answering further questions from audience members in Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris said: “The American people deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, not afraid of good ideas, wherever they come from…
“…but also maintains certain standards about how we think about the role and the responsibility, and certainly not comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler.”
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Kamala Harris was directly asked whether she thought Donald Trump was a “fascist.”
CNN’ anchor and host of the Pennsylvania Town Hall, Anderson Cooper, said: “Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”
“Yes, I do,” Harris replied. “Yes I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.”
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