Donald Trump attacked Democrats as “dangerous” and “evil” during a Fox News town hall broadcast Wednesday, building on controversial comments he made over the weekend about the “enemy from within.” Ta.
In front of a prerecorded all-female audience in Cumming, Georgia, on Tuesday, President Trump derided Kamala Harris and her allies as “sick people,” “evil people” and “a bunch of sound bites.”
“They’re very dangerous. They’re Marxists, they’re communists, they’re fascists,” President Trump told Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner. “They are a threat to democracy.”
In an interview with Charlamagne Tha God on Tuesday, Harris agreed with the radio host’s description of Trump as a fascist. Her comments came after President Trump drew criticism for describing Democratic lawmakers like Rep. Adam Schiff as “the enemy from within” during a Fox News interview that aired Sunday. It is something.
“As I always say, we have two enemies,” Trump said in an interview. “We have external enemies, and we also have internal enemies. In my opinion, internal enemies are more dangerous than China and Russia and all these countries.”
Harris played Trump’s original comments Monday at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, calling them an example of Trump’s unfitness to lead the country.
“A second term for President Trump would be a great risk to America,” Harris said at the rally. “Donald Trump is becoming increasingly volatile and unstable. And he wants unlimited power.”
Asked about those comments on Tuesday, President Trump slammed Democrats for their “fake investigations” and “weaponization of government,” drawing applause from the friendly Town Hall audience.
The crowd was very welcoming to Trump, applauding loudly in response to many of his answers. When asked to indicate whether they thought the economy was doing well, no one raised a hand, even though the U.S. inflation rate has fallen to its lowest level in more than three years.
Perhaps the most tense moment at the town hall was when President Trump was asked about access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the wake of Roe v. Wade. President Trump said he and Republicans are “totally in favor” of reliable access to fertility treatment and praised himself as the “father of in vitro fertilization.” Despite this, Senate Republicans blocked a bill last month that would have ensured access to IVF nationwide.
At town halls, Trump often digressed about energy policy, his 2016 presidential victory and Elon Musk. In response to a question about immigration, Trump attacked Harris, calling her the worst vice president in history who would “destroy our country.” He repeated some of the xenophobic claims he made Friday at a rally in Aurora, Colorado, where he claimed Venezuelan immigrants had “infected” the city.
Trump currently leads Harris by 1 point in Georgia, which Joe Biden won by 0.2 percentage points (less than 12,000 votes) in 2020, according to the Guardian’s presidential poll tracker. The first day of early voting set a new record this week. , more than 328,000 people have voted in person or by mail.
