Trump, Who Once Urged Supporters to "Fight Like Hell" on January 6, Told a Crowd That Liz Cheney Should Have Guns "Trained on Her Face"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Trump said at an Arizona campaign event on Thursday.
46% : At campaign rallies and on social media, Trump frequently frames the election in militaristic terms: as a "battle," a form of "retribution" or a war against foreign "invasion.
39% : "According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll released last week, almost half of swing-state voters -- 45% -- believe that Trump will "try to rule as a dictator" if he wins election next week.
27% : Confusingly, a similar share of voters said Trump is better prepared to confront threats to democracy.
8% : "Among Democrats and other Trump critics, the former president's escalating rhetoric has only buttressed claims that Trump, who famously fanned supporters on January 6, 2021 before a mob of insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol, has authoritarian or fascist tendencies -- claims that Cheney herself echoed in a post to X on Friday.
8% : The Harris campaign, for its part, has increasingly sought to cast Trump himself as such a threat and to contrast his hyper-partisan bombast with Harris's promises to work across the aisle and put a Republican in her Cabinet.
6% : Trump's comments about Cheney -- an outspoken "never-Trumper" who has lately campaigned with Kamala Harris -- are arguably the most explicit of the various violent threats and insinuations Trump has made on the campaign trail.

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