Democracy with her, dictatorship with her rival: this Wednesday, October 23, Kamala Harris publicly accused Donald Trump of being a “fascist”, auguring a very bitter end to the campaign between the two candidates for the White House, that no poll can decide between.
Americans do not want a “president of the United States who admires dictators and who is a fascist,” said the vice-president during a public meeting with voters in Pennsylvania, organized by CNN. “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” a journalist from the channel had asked him shortly before. “Yes, I think so,” replied the Democratic candidate in the November 5 election, in a strong statement contrasting with her more vague answers to questions on other subjects, notably the economy and immigration.
This question was asked this week in reference to the comments of the Republican’s former chief of staff at the White House, John Kelly. This former senior officer in the American army considered that the Republican candidate met the definition of a fascist, and assured that the ex-president would have said that the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had “done good things”. Kamala Harris estimated that John Kelly had “sounded the alarm”, in the run-up to a vote which will certainly be decided by a few tens of thousands of votes in a handful of crucial states.
“Harris sees she’s losing”
In a short, very solemn speech in Washington on Wednesday, the Democratic candidate had already estimated that Donald Trump was “increasingly unbalanced” and in search of “absolute power”. Next Tuesday, Kamala Harris will continue in the same vein by delivering a “final indictment” against Donald Trump in Washington, at the place where the former president had harangued thousands of supporters just before they attacked the Capitol on 6 January 2021. The vice-president wants on this occasion to establish a strong contrast between her vision and that of the Republican candidate, marked according to her by chaos and division, indicated a senior official of her campaign team, who requested the anonymity.
Donald Trump also describes his opponent as a “fascist”, but also as a “Marxist” and a “communist”. On X, he immediately responded to his opponent, accusing him of being a “threat to democracy”. “Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the race from the crook Joe Biden, so now she is increasing her rhetoric more and more, going so far as to call me of Adolf Hitler, and everything else that comes to mind. She is a threat to democracy and is not fit to be president of the United States,” he wrote.
The two candidates are stepping up their efforts in the home stretch of the campaign, seeking to reach all voters, all communities before November 5. The race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, two opposing candidates, is described as one of the closest in American history in a particularly polarized country.