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    Kamala Harris lets the joy drain and campaigns with a tougher tone

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    WASHINGTON — Gone is the joy. Instead, the alarm sounds.

    Vice President Kamala Harris has taken an increasingly fatalistic campaign approach, focusing on the threat she says former President Donald Trump would pose to democracy if he returns to office.

    “He’s going to sit there unstable and unhinged, plotting his revenge, plotting his retaliation, drawing up a list of enemies,” she said during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.

    Harris called Trump a “fascist” during the town hall, echoing comments made by his former chief of staff John Kelly in an interview this week, and hit him for allegedly praising aspects of Hitler’s leadership, also according to Kelly.

    Standing outside the vice president’s mansion at the Naval Observatory in Washington earlier in the day, Harris warned that Trump is “becoming increasingly unhinged and unstable” and said that “people like John Kelly wouldn’t be there to act as a guardrail.” serve against his inclinations and his actions’. in a second term.

    Over the past week, Harris has blasted Trump at most campaign events for comments he made in the final days of the race about wielding the power of the presidency to muzzle dissenters and punish his political opponents.

    That includes journalists, judges and nonpartisan election officials, Harris argued at the CNN town hall.

    “You can bet, because he has said he would arm the Justice Department to go after his political enemies, that after January 20, you can see a Donald Trump in the White House, sitting in that Oval Office and plots his revenge. He has spoken about the enemies within us,” Harris said.

    Trump has long portrayed independent journalists as the “enemy of the people” and last week suggested he would use the US military to contain potential post-election unrest from liberal protesters. In the same interview, he called Democrats the “enemy within,” a sentiment he later emphasized.

    “I always say: we have two enemies,” Trump said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. “We have the enemy from without, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries.”

    At her recent rallies, Harris has started playing a 30-second montage of Trump’s rhetoric. “Please roll the clip,” she said at an event in Erie, Pennsylvania. A jumbotron flashed images of Trump complaining about “the enemy within” and suggesting his critics should be jailed or dealt with violently.

    The crowd gasped and cheered.

    “He’s talking about the enemy in Pennsylvania,” Harris concluded. “He talks about considering anyone who doesn’t support him or won’t submit to his will as an enemy of our country,” she added.

    She made a similar comment at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, last Thursday, warning that the Republican candidate “will shy away from claiming unchecked power for himself.”

    In an appeal to black voters on Monday, Harris urged congregants at a black church in Atlanta to vote against “chaos, fear and hatred.”

    Harris has also taken a lighter approach at times, attacking Trump for perceived exhaustion.

    Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, has also stepped up his attack and started hurling personal zingers at Trump.

    After Trump handed out fries at a McDonald’s drive-through window in Pennsylvania, Walz mocked him from the stage in Madison, Wisconsin, as a “clown” who wears more makeup than Ronald McDonald. At the same rally, Walz joked about billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump supporter, for “jumping around” on stage and “skipping like a dork.”

    If her approach has taken a darker turn, Harris says, it’s because Trump’s behavior has made it necessary.

    “He is becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged, and that requires a response,” she told reporters over the weekend. “I think the American people are seeing it and witnessing it in real time.”

    She said during an NBC interview on Friday that “one does not preclude the other” when it comes to her campaign of joy and rebuke of Trump, and she remains “very optimistic” about the country’s future.

    “That is not inconsistent with the fact that we are also clear about the danger that Donald Trump poses, based on the language he has used, and his admiration for dictators, his inability to really focus on the needs of the American people, especially working people. These things are not in conflict with each other, they all exist at the same time,” she said.

    To critics who say the joy is gone, she responded in the interview, “Oh, I’m having a great time.”

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