SAUNDERS: Harris calls Trump a fascist. October surprise!

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : In the end, this likely helps Trump lure voters skeptical of the media machine and its breathless coverage of Harris.
35% : Some of the money quotes relied on unnamed leakers -- "a witness" and "two people" who heard a conversation -- which is weak for an article that is supposed to present the best closing argument against Trump.
34% : If Trump wins, expect North Korea, China and Russia to recycle her hyperbole when they lash out at the United States.
28% : Again, we don't know that Trump said any such thing.
27% : You may not like Trump, but he has not banned opposition parties and he has not sent millions to their deaths.
24% : Conveniently not on the campaign trail Wednesday, Kamala Harris was available to deliver a statement from the vice president's residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory, where she slammed Trump as "increasingly unhinged and unstable.
19% : Four years ago, it was Goldberg who reported Trump had dismissed dead soldiers as "suckers" and "losers" -- and that account was verified by other media.
14% : *"Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN that he had not heard Trump speak "along the lines that John Kelly and others have outlined.
7% : The next day on CNN, Kamala Harris called Trump a fascist.
6% : "Esper is no toady -- Trump publicly "terminated" him in a petty-payback move after Trump lost in 2020.
3% : That same day, The New York Times reported that former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, Goldberg's named source, said that given the alleged Trump remarks about Hitler -- "Hitler did good things" -- Trump fit the definition of a fascist.

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