The presidential candidate said about Republican Party And the former US president Donald Trump He may support using the army against Americans he described as an “enemy within.” On the other hand, his rival described him as a Democrat Kamala Harris That he is weak and unqualified to lead America.
“I think the biggest problem is the enemy within, not even the people who came into our country and destroyed it,” Trump told Fox News' “Sunday Morning Futures,” referring to American citizens, not immigrants.
He added, “We have some very bad people, and we have some disturbed people, extreme leftist lunatics, and I think that if necessary they should be dealt with – simply – by… National GuardOr, if truly necessary, by the US Army.”
Trump (78 years old) was answering a question about his expectations regarding Election Day after the President said joe biden Last week, he said while he believed the elections would be free and fair, he did not know “whether they would be peaceful.”
In his statements, Trump claimed that some American citizens are “more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries,” he said.
Democratic outrage
Immediately, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's rival, rushed to stop Democratic Party To respond to Trump's statements.
“I know people have become unresponsive to what Trump says over the past decade, but this should be shocking to Americans,” Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said.
He added that Donald Trump says that “his American citizens are worse enemies than foreign adversaries, and he says that he will use the army against them.”
He continued on the
In an election speech in the state of Arizona, which borders Mexico, Trump again delivered an anti-immigrant speech, accusing the Biden-Harris administration of “importing an army of irregular immigrants.”
In a speech that lasted an hour and a half, Trump promised that if elected, he would hire 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents and increase their salaries by 10%.
Trump claims widespread fraud that caused his defeat to Biden in 2020, and he continues to repeat this claim without providing a single piece of evidence.
His supporters, angered by his claims, stormed a building Capitol American on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the election results.
Difficult situation
With about 3 weeks remaining until the voting date on November 5, opinion polls are still close between the two candidates, but a number of polls reveal the difficulties that US Vice President Kamala Harris faces in winning the votes of voters. Black people and Latin Americans.
A poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College yesterday, Sunday, gave her less than 60% of voting intentions in the Latino community, which would represent the lowest level for a Democratic candidate in 20 years.
She is only 19 points ahead of her Republican competitor among this strategic category of voters in several pivotal states, especially in the southwest, such as Arizona and Nevada, that is, 7 points less than Joe Biden in 2020 and 20 points less than Hillary Clinton In 2016.
Yesterday, Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris (59 years old) chose the state of North Carolina (southeast), a region that includes a large number of black Americans and was just devastated by Hurricane Helen.
At a rally in Greenville, she attacked her opponent and criticized him for not being transparent about his health condition, and for refusing to hold a second debate with her.
Harris asked, “Is Trump’s campaign team afraid that people will see him as too weak and unqualified to lead America?”
She considered that Trump is more interested in scaring people, creating fear, and raising problems rather than helping to solve them, which is what true leaders do.
Earlier, during her visit to an African-American church, Harris criticized “those who turn people's tragedies and grief into hatred by spreading misinformation,” and was thus referring to Trump's allegations that the Democratic administration had abandoned residents of areas with a Republican majority in North Carolina.
In response, outgoing President Joe Biden (81 years old) announced yesterday, Sunday, from Florida, which was also hit by another hurricane, Milton, a total of $600 million in aid.
Meanwhile, two other former presidents – Democrats – delivered Barack Obama (2009-2017) andBill Clinton (1993-2001) – They both weighed in on the Harris campaign. The first urged his African American “brothers” and men in general to vote for whoever could become the first American female president, and the second was yesterday, Sunday, in a church in Georgia with black voters, to whom he is known to be close.
Both Harris and Trump will be in Pennsylvania later today, Monday, a state considered crucial to paving the way to the White House.