Harris says Trump is a ‘fascist’, as former president calls his opponent a ‘tax queen’

 

Harris says Trump is a ‘fascist’, as former president calls his opponent a ‘tax queen’

 

Summary

Kamala Harris says at a CNN town hall event that she believes her opponent Donald Trump is a “fascist”

 

It comes after she warned that Trump wants “unchecked power” while addressing comments his former chief of staff made about him being “dictatorial”

 

At a rally in Georgia, Trump slammed the vice-president’s economic policies, calling Harris “the tax queen”

 

Elsewhere, the Justice Department has sent a letter to Elon Musk’s campaign group America PAC to warn that its $1m giveaway could be illegal

 

With less than two weeks to go, Trump and Harris remain very close in the polls

 

 

Trump was joined on stage by RKF Jr, Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard

 

Trump wrapped up his speech a short while ago in Duluth, a city in the Atlanta metro area of Georgia.

 

In his remarks he criticised Joe Biden for calling on voters to “lock him up”, and lashed out at Harris’s running mate Tim Walz, who he called “a sick guy”.

 

He also referenced 100-year old former Democratic president Jimmy Carter, telling voters: “I think he voted for me.”

 

Harris says that billionaires are an important part of her plan because Trump cut their taxes, which she contrasts with her plan for a tax cut for the middle class, which she says will affect around 100 million people.

 

She reiterates her pledge not to increase taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year, adding that “we do need to take seriously a system that benefits the richest and does not help out working middle class Americans”.

 

She adds: “I come from the middle class, and I believe that the middle class needs tax breaks to not just get by, but to get ahead.”

 

At her campaign events Harris has stopped her supporters from chanting the slogan, saying that any decision to prosecute Trump should be left to politically independent prosecutors.

 

Harris says “college students needs to feel safe in their school,” a reference to pro-Palestinian protests on campuses.

 

Harris says she thinks Trump is a fascist during TV event

 

Kamala Harris is now answering questions at a TV town hall event on CNN. More than 30 Pennsylvania voters who are undecided are in the audience.

 

The vice president began the town hall by pointing to Donald Trump’s former colleagues who have strongly criticised the former president.

 

It comes after his longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, told the New York Times that the former president once told him: “You know, Hitler did some good things, too.”

 

When Cooper asked Harris if she thinks Trump is a fascist, she responded: “Yes I do.”

 

“I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted again,” she said.