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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on Tuesday accused former President Donald Trump of being “insane” after reports that he coveted the loyalty of “generals like Hitler.” did.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate noted a report in The Atlantic that given Trump’s often-expressed authoritarian instincts, party leaders believe dark days lie ahead if he wins the election in 13 days. I warned you that there was.
The tense atmosphere surrounding the close election has significantly increased following an article by Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg alleging that President Trump said in a private conversation while in office that “we need a general like Hitler.” It has increased. This report was substantiated in an article by John Kelly, President Trump’s former chief of staff. President Trump’s alleged obsession with Hitler is also supported by material in several books, including one by CNN’s Jim Schutt.
In a separate interview with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump fits the definition of a fascist.
During a rally in Wisconsin, on a day when other Democratic leaders raised dire predictions of an unchained Trump second term in an effort to rally support for Harris, Walz spoke out about Trump’s extremism. Used new suggestions.
“Don’t be a frog in hot water and think this is okay,” the Minnesota governor, who served in the Army National Guard, said in response to the Atlantic’s revelations. “As a 24-year veteran of our nation’s military, that really makes me sick, and it should make you feel bad, too.”
“Guys, the guardrails are gone. Trump has fallen into this madness. The former U.S. president and U.S. presidential candidate said he wants a general like Adolf Hitler. Think about it.” he added.
Walz said the recent decision by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court sought to stoke public concerns about the nature of the former president’s second term, which is already trying to overturn the presidential system. He pointed out that the president was effectively granted immunity for his official actions. Democratic election results.
The Trump campaign denied the exchange between Trump and Hitler reported by The Atlantic. “This is completely false. President Trump never said that,” campaign adviser Alex Pfeiffer said. And in response to Kelly’s comments to the Times, campaign communications director Stephen Chan said in a statement that the retired Marine Corps general “did not serve the president well during his time as chief of staff, “I was completely baffled by the debunked story of these lies that he had concocted.” ”
But even as the uproar grew over the Atlantic report, President Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, capitalized on Democrats’ warnings that it would lead the country down a dark path.
In a recent interview, President Trump mused about directing the military and National Guard against the “enemy from within” (he even clarified that he was referring to Democratic Party leaders), and that television networks like CBS would have their broadcast licenses revoked. After warning him that he should be punished, he launched a ferocious attack on Mr Harris. During a rally in North Carolina.
“Does she drink? Does she take drugs? I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I have no idea,” he said. Earlier in the day, he called her “lazy.” This is a racist metaphor often used against black Americans.
President Trump also said he would ask Congress to pass a law that would make anyone who burns the American flag face one year in prison. “We’re going to ask Congress to give anyone who burns the American flag a year in prison. They say it’s unconstitutional, but I don’t agree.”
Meanwhile, Vance said a future Trump administration could consider deporting DACA recipients (children who were brought to the U.S. illegally but have built lives here) as part of a tougher immigration policy. He said that there is a sex. “When you have 25 million people in this country illegally, if you don’t deport people, there are no borders. It’s that simple,” the Ohio senator said in Arizona.
With the race still tied and Harris potentially needing a complete run through the blue wall battleground states to win, top Democratic leaders said Tuesday that Trump will return to the Oval Office. This led to the view that the possibility was very high. This strategy was similar to the aim of instilling fear throughout the party base to increase turnout.
But there are potential flaws in playing the fear card. President Trump’s history of violence is no secret, even as his memory begins to fade. He has capitalized on voters’ fears about the high cost of living and immigration, and his efforts to remind voters of what his time in the White House was like have not yet been conclusive. And while Trump’s brashness may have alienated some critical moderate voters, his strongman act has thrust him back into the White House’s doorstep. It’s also because his antics come across as strength to many like-minded Americans.
President Joe Biden issued a dire warning of what lies ahead while in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
“If Trump wins, this country will change,” Biden said, hoping to end the MAGA movement’s grip on power when he deployed Trump in 2020. “There are only two things we can do: Either ensure he doesn’t do that, or if he doesn’t,” he said, “and we make sure we get the strongest Democratic majority we can get.” he added.
Former President Barack Obama also suggested that, in between harsh taunts of Trump, there was an existential stake in America’s values and democratic rights in the November election. During a campaign stop in Wisconsin, Obama said that if President Trump returns to the Oval Office, he will dismantle the Affordable Care Act, shatter America’s core values and criticize his chaotic inaction on the COVID-19 pandemic. warned that it would be repeated. And the 44th president has stepped up Democratic warnings about President Trump’s age and visibility, and has turned his successor’s strategy against Biden against President Trump. “We don’t need to see what an older, stupider Donald Trump looks like without guardrails,” President Obama warned.
Meanwhile, in an interview with NBC, the vice president forced his country to make the closing argument that President Trump represents a fundamental danger to the American character, while his rivals offer their own nightmarish visions. He vowed to fight the soaring prices of food and housing. A nation in crisis.
“At this point, the American people have two weeks left to make some very serious decisions about what the future of this country will be. “This includes ‘defending the U.S. Constitution,'” she said in an interview.
Harris, who is scheduled to appear at a CNN town hall event on Wednesday evening, warned that “the choice before the American people is whether to overturn division and hatred and unite our country.”
Harris and Trump court Hispanic residents
Harris previously announced new programs to appeal to key Latino voters and improve access to good jobs, job training and housing as she fights for the Democratic Party’s regular constituency, which Trump has made inroads. I promised.
But at a roundtable with Latino business executives in Miami, Mr. Trump, as usual, did not stick to the event’s ostensible theme, instead digressing into falsehoods and vitriol. Denouncing Harris as “lazy” was a classic case of a former president blaming an opponent for the alleged transgression because he didn’t bother to hold an event — which he did on his own Doral. (Because it was held at a golf club.) And President Trump has canceled a series of press conferences in recent days. His relatively light schedule casts doubt on the 78-year-old’s ability to withstand the rigors of the frenetic final days of a presidential campaign.
The former president also indulged in his own fear-mongering, which he usually uses to provoke his base. He warned that if Harris wins on November 5, there may never be another election. “People don’t know who Harris is, and now they’re finding out that she’s a far-left lunatic,” Trump said. “There is no chance of losing this election because if we lose this election, we might not have a country anymore.”
Trump’s words echoed the inflammatory language he used prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by his supporters trying to block the certification of Biden’s 2020 election victory. It reminded me. And if there’s one candidate in this campaign who has shown disrespect for democratic elections, it’s him.
Tuesday’s references to an increasingly dire future highlighted deep rifts in American politics, with the 2024 election almost a matter of life and death for both sides.
U.S. elections were once seen as regular, if limited, exercises in healing the nation’s political wounds. There’s no way that’s going to happen this year.
