Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday night over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Election Day.
It was the latest example of Harris’ campaign drawing sharper distinctions with Trump in the presidential race’s closing weeks, using the former president’s own words and those of his former aides to cast him as dangerous and unstable.
Speaking in Erie, Harris took a rare step of rolling clips of Trump’s extreme rhetoric as she highlighted his comments Sunday on Fox News, when he said he isn’t worried about his supporters’ actions on Election Day. “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” he said.
“Please roll the clip,” Harris said as the monitors of the Erie Insurance Arena played some of Trump’s recent comments.
“You heard his words, coming from him. He’s talking about the enemy within … he’s talking about that he considers anyone that doesn’t support him, or who will not bend to his will, an enemy of our country,” Harris said.
She said later, “He’s saying he would use the military to go after them … and we know who he would target, because he has attacked them before: Journalists whose stories who he doesn’t like, election officials who refuse to cheat by finding extra votes for him, judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will. This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.”
