'Admires dictators': Harris continues comparing Trump to Hitler during battleground state town hall

Vice President Kamala Harris joined CNN successful Pennsylvania for a municipality hallway with undecided voters connected Wednesday, wherever the Democratic statesmanlike nominee doubled down connected her rhetoric comparing erstwhile President Donald Trump to Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler. 

"If the president of the United States, the commandant successful chief, is saying to his generals, successful essence, 'Why can't you beryllium much similar Hitler's generals?' Anderson, travel on. This is simply a serious, superior issue. And we cognize who helium is. He admires dictators, sending emotion letters backmost and distant with Kim Jong-Un," Harris said of Trump connected Wednesday evening successful a municipality hallway moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper. 

Earlier Wednesday, erstwhile Trump medication main of unit John Kelly claimed to the media that Trump praised "Hitler's generals" for their loyalty. Harris posted connected X that Trump is "out for unchecked power" earlier besides comparing Trump to the Nazi dictator. 

"Donald Trump is retired for unchecked power. He wants a subject similar Adolf Hitler had, who volition beryllium loyal to him, not our Constitution," Harris posted to X earlier Wednesday. "He is unhinged, unstable, and fixed a 2nd term, determination would beryllium nary 1 to halt him from pursuing his worst impulses."

HARRIS DOUBLES DOWN ON 'FASCIST' COMMENTS AT START OF CNN TOWN HALL: 'UNSTABLE'

ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 23: Democratic statesmanlike candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN Presidential Town Hall astatine Sun Center Studios connected October 23, 2024 successful Aston, Pennsylvania. With little than 2 weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the time successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a sojourn to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet supporters. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Cooper pressed Harris astir the rhetoric successful his archetypal question to the Democratic nominee connected Wednesday evening, sparking Harris to treble down and besides accidental she believes that Trump is simply a "fascist." 

"You quoted General Milley calling Donald Trump a fascist. You, yourself, person not utilized that connection to picture him. Let maine inquire you tonight, bash you deliberation Donald Trump is simply a fascist?" Cooper asked Harris towards the commencement of the municipality hall. 

"Yes, I do. Yes, I do," Harris responded. 

Harris' comments travel aft Trump survived 2 assassination attempts connected his beingness since July. Trump has blamed the attacks connected heated rhetoric from Democrats. 

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Harris spoke straight to the undecided battleground authorities voters during the unrecorded municipality hallway Wednesday, including telling 1 elector that if she wins connected Nov. 5, her medication volition beryllium antithetic than Biden's. 

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 5: (L-R) Vice President Kamala Harris, erstwhile President Barack Obama, and U.S. President Joe Biden get for an lawsuit to people the 2010 transition of the Affordable Care Act successful the East Room of the White House connected April 5, 2022 successful Washington, DC. With then-Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Obama signed 'Obamacare' into instrumentality connected March 23, 2010. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Considering you've been successful the presumption of vice president for the past 4 years nether the Biden administration, however tin we expect you to deviate from the absorption of that medication compared to your own? How tin we differentiate your argumentation and your beliefs from that of Biden's?" the assemblage subordinate asked Harris. 

Harris, who has antecedently said portion connected the run way that she couldn't deliberation of thing she would person done otherwise from Biden, said Wednesday that her medication would beryllium antithetic than Biden's leadership. 

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"First of all, my medication volition not beryllium a continuation of the Biden administration. I bring to this relation my ain ideas and my ain experience. I correspond a caller procreation of enactment connected a fig of issues, and judge that we person to really instrumentality caller approaches," Harris said. 

"For example, what we talked astir successful presumption of housing. My acquisition that leads to that priority, includes what I did to instrumentality connected the large banks astir the foreclosure crisis. When I brought billions of dollars to homeowners that were the taxable of predatory lending. I cognize what homeownership means to the American people, not to notation what it meant to my mother, who worked precise hard and saved up, truthful that by the clip I was a teenager, she was capable to bargain our archetypal home."

President Biden stepping speech and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris made Michael Moore highly happy.  (Tierney L. Cross)

The municipality hallway lawsuit kicked disconnected astatine 9 p.m. connected Wednesday from Chester Township, which is located little than 20 miles extracurricular of Philadelphia. The lawsuit was held aft CNN projected holding a 3rd statesmanlike statement -- including Biden's archetypal statement earlier dropping retired of the contention -- connected Oct. 23. Harris accepted the invitation and Trump declined, starring to the municipality hall. 

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Harris was besides pressed about her borderline and migration policies, including a bipartisan measure that would supply backing for a borderline partition that Harris antecedently lambasted arsenic a "stupid" thought erstwhile promoted by Trump during his administration. 

"Let's speech astir this compromise measure that you privation to walk if you are elected. You said that's going to beryllium a priority. It includes $650 cardinal successful backing for the borderline wall. That's thing Republicans wanted, that was portion of the compromise. Under Donald Trump, you criticized the partition much than 50 times. You called it ‘stupid, useless, and a medieval vanity project.’ Is a borderline partition stupid?," Cooper asked Harris. 

"Let's talk astir Donald Trump and that borderline wall," Harris said portion laughing. "So remember, Donald Trump said Mexico would wage for it. Come on, they didn't. How overmuch of that partition did helium build? I deliberation the past fig I saw was astir 2%. And past erstwhile it came clip for him to bash a photograph op, you know, wherever helium did it? In the portion of the partition that President Obama built."

This aerial representation taken connected December 8, 2023 shows the US-Mexico borderline partition successful Sasabe, Arizona. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images))

"But you agreed to a measure that would earmark $650 cardinal to proceed gathering that wall," Cooper pressed. 

"I pledge that I americium going to bring guardant that bipartisan measure to further fortify and unafraid our border. Yes, I am, and I'm going to enactment crossed the aisle to walk a broad measure that deals with a breached migration system," Harris responded. 

"We request a president who is grounded successful common consciousness and applicable outcomes, like, let's conscionable hole this thing. Let's conscionable hole it. Why is determination immoderate ideological position connected this? Let's conscionable hole the problem," she continued, adding that non-citizens request to "earn" citizenship. 

"So you don't deliberation it's anserine anymore?" Cooper continued. 

"I deliberation what helium did and however helium did it was, did not marque overmuch consciousness due to the fact that helium really didn't bash overmuch of anything. I conscionable talked astir that wall, right? We conscionable talked astir it. He didn't really bash overmuch of anything," she responded. 

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Pennsylvania is simply a cardinal authorities again this election, with some Harris and Trump vying to triumph the authorities to wide the way to an wide victory. Trump narrowly won the authorities successful his palmy 2016 predetermination against erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, portion Biden declared triumph successful the Keystone State successful the 2020 election. 

Harris leaned into her enactment of termination during the municipality hall, claiming that reddish authorities termination policies person led to women's deaths. The Harris run and Democrats person antecedently claimed that astatine slightest 2 women successful Georgia died owed to "restrictive" termination laws, with OB-GYNs subsequently criticizing the communicative as a misleading story pushed by the media. 

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"Trump termination bans, immoderate that marque nary exception, adjacent for rape oregon incest. One of the areas I specialized successful arsenic a authoritative was crimes against women and children. The thought you would archer a subsister of a usurpation to their assemblage that they person nary close to marque a determination astir what happens to their assemblage next. This is what's happening successful our country. You each whitethorn person heard the stories. Women person died. Women person died due to the fact that of these laws and the suffering," Harris said. 

ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 23: Democratic statesmanlike candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks arsenic CNN moderator Anderson Cooper looks connected during a Presidential Town Hall lawsuit astatine Sun Center Studios connected October 23, 2024 successful Aston, Pennsylvania. With little than 2 weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the time successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a sojourn to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet supporters. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Harris called for the extremity of the filibuster past period successful an effort to walk a instrumentality restoring termination entree nationwide, which was slammed by lawmakers and conservatives arsenic an onslaught connected democracy. The filibuster is simply a Senate regularisation that allows a number to artifact authorities pending a supermajority vote, truthful ending it would marque it easier to walk laws related to termination rights.

Cooper pressed Harris connected the substance Wednesday, asking: "You've talked astir codifying Roe v Wade. That would necessitate 60 votes successful the Senate, a bulk of the House. That's a big, that's a large leap. We don't person that yet. If that's not imaginable to codify it successful the House, what bash you do?"

Harris responded that it was clip to revisit the filibuster. 

"I deliberation we request to instrumentality a look astatine the filibuster, to beryllium honorable with you. But the world of it is this, let's speech astir however we got here. When Donald Trump was president, helium hand-selected 3 members of the United States Supreme Court with the volition that they would undo the protections of Roe v Wade," she said. "And they did arsenic helium intended. And now, successful 20 states, we person termination bans." 

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Harris' quality unfolded arsenic the Wall Street Journal published a caller canvass uncovering Trump successful the pb nationally, astatine 47% enactment to Harris' 45%. 

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