The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, attacked former President Donald Trump, following his statements the previous day in which he suggested that he would order the Armed Forces to intervene to confront an alleged “internal enemy” on Election Day.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable, unbalanced, and seeks unlimited power. That’s what he wants. He wants to use the Armed Forces against American citizens,” Harris said during a rally in Erie County, a key territory in the decisive state of Pennsylvania.
Harris argued that Trump considers Americans who do not agree with his vision enemies and warned that he would especially attack journalists. whose stories do not favor him, to electoral officials who refuse to manipulate the results in his favor, as well as to judges who do not bend to his wishes.
“This is one of the reasons why I firmly believe that a second Trump term would be a great risk for the United States and especially dangerous,” Harris added.
During the event, Harris showed a video of Trump’s interview this Sunday on Fox News, where he was asked if he believes there will be violence on election day on November 5.
“We have some very bad people. “We have radical left lunatics, and I think they should be easily controlled by the National Guard, or, if necessary, by the Armed Forces,” Trump said in that interview. “The internal enemy, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and other countries,” he added.
The only specific “enemy” Trump mentioned was Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, a Senate candidate from California who led efforts to investigate him during his first impeachment trial, from which he was acquitted by his Republican allies in the Senate.
Trump has also repeatedly used the phrase “enemy of the people” to refer to media outlets that do not portray him favorably.
“Lock him up!”
The audience at the Harris rally was particularly animated, frequently interrupting the vice president with applause and chants of “USA, USA!”, expressions that until recently were only heard at Trump rallies, but that now resonate at the events. Democrats, while Harris seeks to recover patriotism for her party.
At one point, when Harris was criticizing Trump, attendees began chanting “Lock him up!”, a modified version of the “Lock her up!” which Trump constantly used against his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton.
Harris responded immediately, asking the crowd to stop chanting and saying: “The courts will take care of that. Let’s focus on November. OK?”, to which the attendees responded with applause.
Trump has made history by becoming the first former US president convicted of a crime, and is currently facing several court proceedings, including those related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his role in the 2021 storming of the Capitol. .
Pennsylvania, key territory
Trump himself was also in Pennsylvania on Monday, participating in a meeting with voters in the town of Oaks, near Philadelphia.
When asked by a man about his plans to make housing more affordable, Trump claimed that regulations make construction more expensive and reiterated his promise to increase the country’s oil production, even though it is already at record levels.
“We’re going to drill, drill non-stop, we’re going to have so much energy that we’re going to drive prices down,” Trump said, a message that particularly resonates in Pennsylvania, the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer after Texas.
Pennsylvania has become one of the most contested key states in these elections.
Trump managed to wrest this state from the Democrats in 2016, becoming the first Republican to win it since 1988. However, in 2020, Biden, who was born in Pennsylvania, defeated Trump by about 80,000 votes.
Polls show a very close race in that state with Harris just 0.7 points ahead of Trump, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average.
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