Harris calls Trump ‘unhinged and unstable’ over reported Hitler comments: Election 2024 live updates
Kamala Harris will take part in an interview with Anderson Cooper in Pennsylvania on Wednesday as Donald Trump campaigns in Georgia
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Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
The claim has been vehemently denied by Trump’s campaign.
Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly also told The New York Times that the former president praised Hitler multiple times, warning that the GOP candidate meets the definition of a fascist.
Kamala Harris responded to the reports in remarks at Naval Observatory on Wednesday lunchtime, warning that the former president is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” and in a second Trump term “people like John Kelly will no longer be there to rein him in.”
Harris meanwhile took part in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday night and will follow that with a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, today taking questions from undecided swing state voters.
Trump is campaigning in Georgia today and JD Vance is in Nevada.
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Georgia voter audit finds just 20 noncitizens among 8.2 million registered people
Election officials in Georgia have conducted an audit of voters in the state and found that there were just 20 noncitizens among 8.2 million registered people in the state.
Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger announced the findings today, which underline the notion that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, no matter what some in the Republican Party and Trump campaign maintain, attempting to sow doubt in results ahead of the election.
The 20 individuals were found to be noncitizens based on affidavits they signed to get out of jury duty, Raffesnperger said in a news conference this morning.
Those records were then compared with federal citizenship and voter registration databases. Their registrations were canceled and the matter was referred to law enforcement for further investigations and possible prosecution.
“There’s no proof that there is this overwhelming number of noncitizens on the rolls,” Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer in the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday. “Because, the reality is, if you’re a noncitizen and you’re a legal resident and you’re on a path to citizenship, if you try to register to vote, you will never get to be a citizen. It is very high risk, very low reward.”
A further 156 people’s citizenship state wasn’t immediately determined and will be subject to further scrutiny.
“Georgia is a model when it comes to preventing noncitizen voting,” Raffensperger said, adding, “We need to remain constantly vigilant.”
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Tim Walz voted in Minnesota this morning
Kamala Harris’s running mate Governor Tim Walz voted in St Paul, Minnesota this morning. He was joined at the Ramsey Government Center by his wife Gwen Walz and their son Gus, who is voting for the first time, NBC News reports.
“To have my son with me, Gus, to vote for the first time, exciting, an opportunity to turn the page on the chaos of Donald Trump and a new way forward,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee said after he voted.
Early voting began in St Paul on September 20.
The governor also took the opportunity to talk to the press about John Kelly’s comments regarding Donald Trump being a fascist.
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Former aide to Gen John Kelly implores voters to listen to warning about Trump
A former top aide to Gen John Kelly is defending his former boss and says voters should listen to what he has to say about former president Donald Trump's unfitness for office.
Kevin Carroll, a retired US Army colonel who served as a senior counselor to Kelly when Kelly was Trump's homeland security secretary, told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that Kelly's choice to speak out against the ex-president is “no small step” for the retired US Marine general.
“He's seen Donald Trump up close in a way that very few other Americans have, and he's warning us that a second Trump term would be dangerous,” he said. “Leaders like General Kelly are warning us that Trump has no empathy, that he's increasingly unstable and unfit, and that he's more extreme than ever. I think we have an obligation to take General Kelly and these other leaders such as Secretary Esper, Secretary Mattis, Chairman Milley, seriously when they say these things.”
Carroll also said Kelly is trying to warn Americans that the “guardrails” that kept Trump from abusing much of his power “won't exist” in a second Trump administration because Trump would prioritize loyalty to him over all else when staffing his second-term staff.
“General Kelly is warning us that Trump is seeking the power to do anything he wants, anytime he wants. Trump is now running to give himself unprecedented, unchecked ... extreme powers. He's surrounding himself with little loyalists and toadies who will green light every one of his wishes, letting him bulldoze the tenants of our democracy and lock up fellow Americans, including sitting members of Congress, whom he calls the enemy within,” he said.
New Harris campaign ad features Capitol Police Sgt Aquilino Gonell slamming Trump over Jan 6
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Fox News host tries to justify Trump allegedly wanting ‘kind of generals that Hitler had’
As we have reported, Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had”. The claim is vehemently denied by the Trump campaign.
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fox & Friends, stepped up this morning to try and justify why the former president would want such generals, implying that maybe Trump wanted German generals under Hitler who weren’t Nazis... 🤔
Watch below as he explains:
The Lincoln Project posted on X in response: “There's an ‘enemy within’ alright, and it's Americans who will justify any admiration of literal Nazis.”
They added: “Fox is not your friend.”
Comedian Mrs Betty Bowers tweeted: “Wanting the generals who lost the war is such a Donald Trump thing to do.”
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