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Harris blasts Trump’s ‘enemy from within’ comments

Harris shows Trump montage

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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has upped his alarmist rhetoric with an apparent suggestion that he would deploy the military on election day to handle the “enemy from within”.

The former president was asked in an interview on Fox News if he was expecting “chaos” on election day.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” Trump said. “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics.

“It should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”

Trump in recent rally speeches has hinted about facing “an enemy from within”, more dangerous than a foreign adversary.

The comments were seized on by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who made the rare move at a Pennsylvania rally of playing a video montage of Trump referencing the so-called enemy.

In one clip Trump says that “the worst people are the enemies from within … those people are more dangerous than Russia and China”.

Harris told her supporters that Trump was talking about anyone who did not support him or bend to his will.

“It’s a serious issue because he is saying that he would use the military to go after them,” the US Vice President said.

“We know who he would target, because he has attacked them before.

“Journalists whose stories he doesn’t like. Election officials who refuse to cheat … judges who follow the law instead of bending to his will.

“These are among the reasons that I believe that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.

“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged.”

Harris’s trip to Pennsylvania on Monday (local time) was her 10th to the battleground state since becoming the Democratic candidate in July.

The state’s 19 electoral college votes will be pivotal to the outcome of the November 5 election.

She kicked off her trip to Erie with a stop at a black-owned coffee shop for a sit-down discussion with black men. Her campaign is concerned about slipping support from black voters.

Harris unveiled new policy proposals aimed at black men on Monday that include forgivable small business loans and access to a new legal recreational marijuana industry.

The Harris campaign and Democrats – including former president Barack Obama – have expressed deep concern about whether black men will turn out in numbers seen in past elections and whether they will support Harris or Trump.

More than a quarter of young black men say they will support Trump in the election race, according to a September poll by the NAACP, the nation’s largest civil rights organisation.

US President Joe Biden got about 80 per cent of the black male vote in 2020.

-with AAP

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