As if sensing that the 2024 presidential election is slipping away from him, Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud during a weekend campaign rally in Wisconsin, suggesting that those who publicly identify as supporters of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, could be in danger and “get hurt” if others find out.
“Is there anybody here who’s going to vote for lyin’ Kamala?” Trump asked. “Actually, I should say don’t raise your hand, it would be very dangerous. We don’t want to see anybody get hurt. Please don’t raise your hand.”
Video of the failed former president’s remarks was shared on social media by the Harris campaign along with a headline: “Trump says it’s ‘very dangerous’ for Kamala Harris voters to identify themselves because they’ll ‘get hurt.'”
Trump and his surrogates have been using increasingly inflammatory language over the past several days, ABC News reported just last month.
Heading into the final stretch of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump is using increasingly shocking and harsh rhetoric to go after Vice President Kamala Harris and to paint a picture of a country being “destroyed.”
He’s now calling Harris “mentally impaired” and even “disabled.” Illegal immigrants, he claimed over the weekend, will come into American homes and slit people’s throats. A single day of “violent” policing, he argued, would address the issue of crime in the U.S.
All of this is directly from the playbook of tyrants throughout history, including the dark words of Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and the disgusting anti-Semitic lies spread by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who suggested that Jews were subhuman and lower than vermin.
Warning bells began ringing on Twitter, where those who saw the Harris campaign’s posting noted that Trump’s words could easily result in horrific acts of mayhem and violence. Take a look:
