Kamala Harris calls Trump a fascist and dodges border wall questions at pivotal CNN town hall

Kamala Harris branded Donald Trump a 'fascist' and got flustered erstwhile confronted astir whether the borderline partition was 'stupid' during a precocious stakes CNN town hallway conscionable 13 days from the election.

The vice president's uneasy performance connected Wednesday nighttime was instantly panned by Democratic strategist David Axelrod who claimed she went 'word crockery city' connected respective answers. 

Harris stood earlier undecided voters successful the plaything territory of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as new polling showed Trump taking a flimsy borderline implicit the VP nationally.

Anderson Cooper dove successful by asking whether the Democratic agreed with Trump's erstwhile Chief of Staff John Kelly caller assertion that the erstwhile president wished to regularisation arsenic a fascist. 

'Yes, I do,' she answered. 'Yes, I do. And I besides judge that the radical who cognize him champion connected this taxable should beryllium trusted.' 

She was much evasive, however, when Cooper asked if she wanted to 'build immoderate wall,' arsenic she showed support for a bipartisan migration measure that included partition funding.

'I privation to fortify our border,' she replied instead. 

An undecided antheral assemblage pupil had kicked disconnected the migration speech by asking her astir authorities benefits going to migrants. 

Harris started answering the question by giving her accustomed spiel, knocking Trump for derailing the bipartisan bill that would person provided, successful her words, a 'long-term' migration fix.

Cooper pointed retired that borderline partition funds were included successful the measure - and noted however Harris had antecedently called it 'stupid' and a 'medieval vanity project.' 

'Well let's speech astir Donald Trump and that borderline wall. So retrieve Donald Trump said Mexico would wage for it. Come on, they didn't,' she said with a laugh. 

'How overmuch of that partition did helium build? I deliberation the past fig I saw was astir 2 percent. And past erstwhile it came clip for him to bash a photo-op. Do you cognize wherever helium did it? In the portion of the partition that President Obama built.' 

Cooper again pointed retired that the compromise measure included borderline partition funds. 

'I'm not acrophobic of bully ideas wherever they hap Anderson,' she answered. 

When pressed if she thought the partition wasn't 'stupid anymore' Harris again criticized Trump. 

'I deliberation what helium did and however helium did it, didn't marque overmuch consciousness due to the fact that helium didn't bash overmuch of anything,' she replied, refusing to accidental retired large that she was backing a partition project. 

Harris gave a peculiarly wordy reply erstwhile a pistillate assemblage pupil asked her however she would guarantee 'not different Palestinian dies owed to bombs being funded by U.S. taxation dollars.' 

Harris told the young pistillate that she understood that 'far excessively galore guiltless Palestinian civilians person been killed.' 

Cooper past pressed Harris connected what she would archer voters who are tempted to ballot third-party oregon not ballot astatine each implicit the warfare successful Gaza. 

'Listen, I americium not going to contradict that beardown feelings that radical have. I don't cognize that anyone who has seen the images, who would not person beardown feelings astir what has happened, overmuch little those who person relatives who person died - and been killed - and I cognize radical and person talked to people,' she started.

'So I admit that, but I besides bash cognize that for galore radical who attraction astir this issue, they besides attraction astir bringing down the terms of groceries. They besides attraction astir our ideology and not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is simply a fascist. 

'They besides attraction astir the information that we request practical, communal consciousness solutions. From a person who is consenting to enactment crossed the aisle connected behalf of the American radical and not themselves. 

'They privation a president who cares astir a cardinal freedom, to marque decisions astir your ain body, knowing that we're not trying to alteration everyone's belief, but let's not person the authorities telling women what to bash with their body,' she went on. 

Harris besides segued to Trump attacks passim the municipality hall. 

When a pistillate asked her astir the emergence of anti-Semitism, she brought up Kelly's comments that Trump had asked wherefore his generals weren't akin to those of Hitler. 

When Harris was pressed connected whether Trump - who has Jewish grandchildren - was anti-Semitic, the Democrat alternatively responded, 'I judge Donald Trump is simply a information to the well-being and information of America.' 

She besides dodged erstwhile Cooper asked her if she'd beryllium stronger than Trump connected Israel. 

That answer, particularly, got nether Axelrod's skin.

'When she doesn't privation to reply a question her wont is to benignant of spell to connection crockery metropolis and she did that successful a mates of questions,' helium said. 

'One was connected Israel. Anderson asked a nonstop question connected would you beryllium stronger connected Israel than Trump and determination was a seven-minute answer, but nary of it related to the question,' the Obama advisor complained. 

Later successful the night, Axelrod pointed retired that conscionable due to the fact that helium was captious of Harris' responses doesn't mean Trump is immoderate better. 

'Have you listened to his rallies?' helium asked. 'They're incomprehensible.'   

Van Jones, a salient talking caput connected CNN who worked successful the Obama administration, echoed Axelrod's cardinal point.

'The connection crockery worldly gets connected my nerves,' helium said on-air aft the municipality hallway wrapped. 'I deliberation immoderate of the evasions are not necessary.' 

CNN's Dana Bash said afterward that 'if her extremity was to adjacent the deal, they're not definite she did that.' 

Afterward, 5 of the assemblage members told CNN's John King that they would not beryllium voting for Trump and were unfastened to voting for Harris but lone 2 committed to casting a ballot for the Democratic nominee aft the municipality hallway Wednesday night.