Harris breaks silence after GOP leaders say anti-Trump rhetoric 'risks inviting' another assassination attempt

Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated "the information and the menace that Donald Trump poses to America and the information that helium is unfit to serve," connected Friday erstwhile asked astir disapproval of her rhetoric by Republican leaders. 

"Well, listen, we each indispensable talk retired against immoderate signifier of governmental violence, and I'm precise wide astir that. No 1 should beryllium the taxable of violence," she told reporters, according to a property excavation report. 

"But the American radical merit to beryllium presented with facts and the truth. And the information and the information is that immoderate of the radical closest to Donald Trump erstwhile helium was president, generals, including astir recently, John Kelly, a four-star marine general, person been precise wide astir the information and the menace that Donald Trump poses to America and the information that helium is unfit to serve. And the American People merit to perceive that and cognize astir that," the vice president continued. 

Her run was initially soundless pursuing a telephone from Republican legislature leaders for her to halt utilizing "dangerous rhetoric," specified arsenic referring to Trump arsenic a "fascist."

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., bottommost inset, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., apical inset, asked Vice President Kamala Harris to cease her "dangerous rhetoric." (Reuters )

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released a comparatively uncommon associated connection connected Friday, demanding Harris cease utilizing specified rhetoric and reminding her of the 2 caller assassination attempts against Trump. 

"Labeling a governmental hostile arsenic a ‘fascist’ risks inviting yet different would-be assassin to effort robbing voters of their prime earlier Election Day," the Republican leaders said successful the connection little than 2 weeks earlier the election. 

Harris' run initially declined to remark erstwhile reached by Fox News Digital. 

"Vice President Harris whitethorn privation the American radical to entrust her with the ineffable work of enforcement authority. But first, she indispensable wantonness the basal and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers some American lives and institutions," Johnson and McConnell wrote. 

"We person some been briefed connected the ongoing and persistent threats to erstwhile President Donald Trump by adversaries to the United States, and we telephone connected the Vice President to instrumentality these threats seriously, halt escalating the menace environment, and assistance guarantee President Trump has the indispensable resources to beryllium protected from those threats," they said. 

The connection noted that determination person been 2 assassination attempts against Trump successful the past respective months, pointing retired that "in the weeks since that 2nd sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has lone fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of governmental animus."

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

During a CNN municipality hallway this week, Harris told big Anderson Cooper that she believes Trump is simply a fascist. 

"Yes, I do. Yes, I do," she told Cooper erstwhile asked if she agreed with retired Gen. Mark Milley, who described Trump arsenic "fascist to the core" successful writer Bob Woodward's latest book.

Cooper noted that Harris had cited Milley's quotes astir Trump successful the past. 

Harris further referred to caller interviews with Trump's erstwhile main of unit John Kelly successful The New York Times, successful which helium said Trump "certainly falls into the wide explanation of fascist."

Kelly further claimed Trump told him erstwhile that "Hitler did immoderate bully things, too." 

Trump has denied saying this. 

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A caller canvass has recovered that erstwhile President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are successful a dormant vigor up of Election Day. (AP/Alex Brandon/Mike Stewart)

According to the Kelly interview, helium felt the request to talk retired due to the fact that of a caller remark Trump made successful an interrogation connected Fox News. 

While speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo connected "Sunday Morning Futures," Trump was asked astir concerns with respect to "chaos" connected Election Day. The big noted a caller crippled by an Afghan exile that was foiled. 

"I deliberation the bigger occupation is the force from within, not adjacent the radical that person travel successful and [are] destroying our state and by the way, wholly destroying our country. The towns, the villages, they're being inundated," Trump began. 

"But I don't deliberation they person the occupation successful presumption of Election Day. I deliberation the bigger occupation are the radical from within. We person immoderate precise atrocious people. We person immoderate sick people, extremist near lunatics," helium said. "It should beryllium precise easy handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or, if truly necessary, by the military, due to the fact that they can't fto that happen."

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Former President Trump famously raised his fist and yelled "fight" to the assemblage aft surviving an assassination effort successful July. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Harris' run has since seized connected the remark. 

According to Johnson and McConnell, "Her astir caller and astir reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th period look to situation it to boil over. The Vice President's words much intimately lucifer those of President Trump's 2nd would-be assassin than her ain earlier entreaty to civility."

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"This summer, aft the archetypal attempted assassination of a statesmanlike campaigner successful much than a century, President Biden insisted that ‘we cannot let this unit to beryllium normalized.’ In September, aft President Trump escaped yet different adjacent call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that ‘we each indispensable bash our portion to guarantee that this incidental does not pb to much violence,'" they pointed out. 

However, "[t]hese words person proven hollow," they said. 

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