Harris slams Trump for suggesting Liz Cheney be shot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

32% : The Democratic vice president has campaigned extensively with Cheney, especially in the "blue wall" battleground states that make up her strongest path to victory on Tuesday, while Trump has been going after the former Wyoming congresswoman and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, over the Iraq war and foreign military interventions.
27% : "You know they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy," Trump said.
27% : "Throughout his campaign, Trump has been fixated on the Americans he believes have wronged or betrayed him.
16% : "Trump and his allies say his comments are being misconstrued.
16% : At an event late Thursday in Arizona with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump was asked whether it was strange to see Cheney campaign against him.
15% : Harris called Cheney "a true patriot" and said Trump "has increased his violent rhetoric.
14% : Trump called Cheney "a deranged person" and added: "But the reason she couldn't stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people.
11% : "Trump has ramped up his critiques of the Cheneys in swing state Michigan, where he is competing with Harris for the votes of Arab Americans opposed to U.S. backing of Israel's offensive in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and its subsequent invasion of Lebanon.
11% : "Trump said he was making a point about Cheney's foreign policy record.
10% : Cheney, who broke with Trump after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Friday called the former president a "cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.
9% : The former congresswoman has vocally opposed Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and endorsed Harris, joining the vice president at recent stops as they try to win over Republicans disaffected with Trump.
4% : "One prominent Trump critic, former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, argued the former president's comment had been taken out of context and that Trump was "NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line.
2% : ""In Trump's typically stupid, ugly fashion, he's trying to make a point about Cheney's stance on war," Walsh said on X.Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, suggested that Trump was "talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad, and you have Vice President Harris talking about sending one to her Cabinet.

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