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    Kamala Harris gives free rein to the joy and advertises with a harder tone

    Madoc Meredith Posted on

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    WASHINGTON – Gone is the joy. In its place, the alarm goes up.

    Vice President Kamala Harris has taken an increasingly fatalistic approach to the campaign, focusing on the threat she believes former President Donald Trump would pose to democracy if he returns to office.

    “He will be unstable and unhinged, plotting his revenge, plotting his retaliation and making an enemies list,” she said during a town hall on CNN Wednesday night.

    Harris called Trump a “fascist” during the town hall, echoing comments made by his former chief of staff John Kelly in an interview this week. He criticized him for reportedly praising aspects of Hitler’s leadership, Kelly said.

    Standing outside the vice president’s mansion at the Naval Observatory in Washington earlier in the day, Harris warned that Trump was “increasingly unhinged and unstable” and said: “People like John Kelly would not be there to counter his tendencies and actions.” .” in a second term.

    Harris has grilled Trump at most campaign rallies over the past week for comments he made in the final days of the campaign that he was using the power of the presidency to silence dissent and punish his political opponents.

    That includes journalists, judges and nonpartisan election officials, Harris argued at the CNN town hall.

    “Since he has said he would use the Justice Department as a weapon to target his political enemies, rest assured you will see a Donald Trump in the White House after January 20, sitting in the Oval Office and planning his revenge. “He talked about the enemies within,” Harris said.

    Trump has long portrayed independent journalists as “enemies of the people” and suggested last week that he would use the U.S. military to contain possible post-election unrest by liberal protesters. In the same interview, he referred to Democrats as the “enemy within,” a sentiment he later reinforced.

    “I always say we have two enemies,” Trump said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. “We have the enemy from outside, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries.”

    At her recent rallies, Harris has begun playing a 30-second montage of Trump’s rhetoric. “Please shoot the clip,” she said at an event in Erie, Pennsylvania. A jumbotron showed footage of Trump complaining about “the enemy within” and suggesting his critics should be jailed or treated violently.

    The crowd gasped and booed.

    “He’s talking about the enemy in Pennsylvania,” Harris concluded. “He talks about how he considers anyone who doesn’t support him or bend to his will to be an enemy of our country,” she added.

    She made a similar observation last Thursday at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, warning that the Republican nominee “will stop at nothing to claim unchecked power.”

    In an appeal to black voters on Monday, Harris urged congregants at a black church in Atlanta to vote against “chaos, fear and hate.”

    Harris has also taken a lighter approach at times, calling out Trump for alleged exhaustion.

    Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, also stepped up his attack and began hurling personal tirades at Trump.

    After Trump handed out fries at a McDonald’s drive-thru window in Pennsylvania, Walz mocked him on stage in Madison, Wisconsin, as a “clown” who wears more makeup than Ronald McDonald. At the same rally, Walz mocked billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump supporter, for “jumping around” and “jumping like an idiot” on stage.

    If her approach has taken a darker turn, Harris said, it is because Trump’s behavior has made it necessary.

    “He is becoming more and more unstable and unhinged and it requires this response,” she told reporters over the weekend. “I think the American people are seeing it, witnessing it in real time.”

    She said during an NBC interview Friday that “one does not exclude the other” when it comes to her joy campaign and rebuking Trump, and she remains “greatly optimistic” about the country’s future.

    “That is not inconsistent with also being aware of the danger that Donald Trump poses based on the language he uses, his admiration for dictators and his inability to truly focus on the needs of the American people in particular.” “These things are not in conflict with each other, they all exist at the same time,” she said.

    In the interview, she responded to critics who said the joy was gone: “Oh, I’m having a great time.”

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