Donald Trump is ‘increasingly unstable and unhinged’, says Kamala Harris – as it happened | US elections 2024
Walz: Trump ‘crossed a line’ by saying army should be used against his enemies
Speaking in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, today, Tim Walz denounced Donald Trump’s comments that armed forces should be deployed against his opponents, who he called “the enemy within”, after the election. Trump made the statement on Fox News yesterday.
Gov. Walz: Trump just crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined. He said he would deploy the military against Americans who disagree with him. He called it the ‘enemy within.’ To Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the… pic.twitter.com/aL37tWX7yz
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 14, 2024
Speaking to students at the University of Wisconsin, Walz said: “Trump just crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined. He said he would deploy the military against Americans who disagree with him. He called it the ‘enemy within’. To Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the enemy.”
Read more about Trump’s comments here:
Key events
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After standing on stage swaying while various songs play for more than 20 minutes, Trump finally leaves the stage. It is unclear what that was about, although we are trying to find explanation that makes sense.
Trump has already answered questions at this town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania – it is unclear whether he plans to speak again, or just stand on stage listening to his rally playlist.
The large screen behind Trump on stage says “Trump was right about everything.”
Here is that clip from Harris a short while ago:
At her Erie, PA rally, Harris plays multiple clips of Trump’s threats, then says “he considers anyone who doesn’t support him, or who will not bend to his will, an ENEMY of our country.” pic.twitter.com/j9KBMZ1qHR
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 15, 2024
Trump is also in Pennsylvania, in Oaks.
At the moment he is standing on stage swaying side to side as Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” plays.
Harris has finished speaking. She makes her way through the crowd, shaking hands with supporters.
Harris reminds the crowd that the way people from Erie county vote “often predicts the national vote”.
People start chanting “Erie! Erie!” – where Harris is speaking.
She reminds the crowd that they can vote early.
Erie is a bellwether county – the way it has voted has been the way the country voted in the last four elections:
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2008 Presidential Election: Erie County voted for Barack Obama, who won the presidency.
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2012 Presidential Election: Erie County voted for Barack Obama, who won re-election.
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2016 Presidential Election: Erie County voted for Donald Trump, who won the presidency.
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2020 Presidential Election: Erie County voted for Joe Biden, who won the presidency.
Trump meanwhile, according to MSNBC:
Trump is just standing at his rally swaying as hallelujah (jeff buckley) plays. He’s tapping his chair. The crowd is standing. just listening to music
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 15, 2024
“When freedom is on the line, Americans always answer the call,” she says.
The crowd chants “Vote! Vote!”.
Trump is ‘Increasingly unstable and unhinged’, Harris says
“I’ve said for a while now, watch his rallies, listen to his words. He tells us what he is, he tells us what he will do if he is elected president,” she says.
Harris plays clips from several Trump events, including, “The worst people are the enemies from within … those people are more dangerous than Russia and China … Now if you had one really violent day, one rough hour, and I mean really rough”.
“He’s talking about the enemy from within Pennsylvania,” Harris says, and anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
“He is saying that he would use the military to go after them,” she says. “And 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,” she says.
“A second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous,” she says.
“Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. And he is out for unchekced power,” she says.
Harris now takes aim at Trump calling for the “termination” of the constitution of the United States.
The crowd chants “lock him up” and Harris says, “The courts will handle that,” and that voters must handle 5 November – voting day.
Harris turns now to abortion.
“One in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban,” she says.
Abortion will also be on the ballot in at least ten states on 5 November:
These measures are known as down-ballot measures. Here is an explainer:
Measures on the ballot other than the vote for US presidential ticket are down-ballot measures, and a third or more of the roughly half of Americans who usually turn up to vote don’t fill out the entire ballot, according to the US Vote Foundation. Voters do not have to vote for any down-ballot measures for their ballots to count.
“You gotta read the plan.” says Harris, “I mean the fact that they put it in writing is a whole other thing to be discussed,” she says, referring to the Project 2025 document.
More on this subject:
Harris turns now to Project 2025.
She repeats her criticism of Trump as an “unserious man” – but that the consequences of him being president again are very serious.
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