By Reagan Reese, Daily Caller News Foundation | November 01, 2024
The vice president’s 2024 campaign has spent the final days of its run for the White House painting Trump with various names, including “fascist” and “petty tyrant.”
The Harris campaign began in a honeymoon phase, with its main messaging surrounding “joy.” But as the polls have continuously shown the race neck-and-neck, the vice president and her team have resorted to painting Trump as a dangerous threat to the country who would use unchecked power if elected again. (RELATED: FLASHBACK: Harris Once Said Trump Represents ‘Contagion’ Afflicting America)
The switch began when Harris gave unexpected remarks from her residence on comments made by former Trump chief of staff John Kelly to both The New York Times and The Atlantic about how Trump would rule. In the articles, both contested by the Trump campaign and various other sources, Kelly claims that Trump said Hitler “did some good things,” wanted generals like the Nazi dictator had and would rule like a fascist.
“It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who, I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of fascist.’ Who vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas,” Harris said, adding that it showed who Trump “really is.”
Later that day, the vice president told CNN that she believes Trump is a fascist, something the White House had previously confirmed that President Joe Biden believed.
The only attack Harris has tried to distance herself from is that of calling Trump supporters “garbage.”
Biden, while responding to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Sunday rally, called Trump supporters “garbage” during a Zoom call Tuesday. The White House tried to explain the remarks by saying the president did not mean “supporters” but rather “supporter’s.” They put out a transcript reflecting such amid the firestorm.
Since, The Associated Press revealed that the White House press office altered the transcript, overruling concerns from its official transcribers about doing so.
“Listen, I think that first of all, he clarified his comments. Let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” the vice president said.
Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, compared Trump’s closing argument at a rally he held at Madison Square Garden to a pro-Nazi event that occurred in 1939.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said at a Nevada rally. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden.”
“And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there,” he continued.
The vice president ramped up the attacks on Trump at her closing argument at the Ellipse. Harris used the location of her speech, the last place where Trump spoke to his supporters before the Capitol Riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to emphasize the danger she claims the former president poses to the country
“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election,” Harris said.
“Donald Trump has told us his priorities for a second term. He has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute. He says one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on January 6th,” the continued.
The vice president continued, calling Trump a “petty tyrant,” who is “obsessed with revenge” and “consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.” She called him “unstable,” and has previously called him “unhinged.” Harris even told her supporters that Trump will use the military against them.
“Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls — quote — ‘the enemy from within.’ This is not a candidate for President who is thinking about how to make your life better,” she said.
“This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power,” Harris continued.
Reagan Reese is the White House Correspondent for the Daily Caller. She previously served as an education reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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