Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner in Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia.
Democrat Harris and Republican Trump have been making regular appearances in what is the country’s largest battleground state — it will be Harris’ tenth visit to Pennsylvania this campaign season, and just last week Trump made stops in both Scranton and Reading.
Harris at an evening campaign rally planned to raise Trump’s comments over the weekend suggesting that the U.S. military be used to deal with “the enemy from within,” according to a senior Harris campaign official.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the remarks ahead of a campaign rally in Erie, said Harris will hammer home the idea that Trump sees Americans who disagree with him as enemies.
She’ll argue that the comments made in a Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” interview are the latest example of threatening rhetoric from the former president that should concern Americans about what a potential second Trump term could look like.
Trump, responding to a question about “outside agitators” potentially disrupting Election Day, pivoted to a foe closer to home.
“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” Trump said. He added: “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”
The White House on Saturday released a letter from Harris’ doctor that summarizes her medical history declaring the vice president is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to be president.
If 78-year-old Trump were to be elected next month, he would be the oldest president in