Harris breaks silence after GOP leaders say anti-Trump rhetoric “risks setting up another assassination attempt.”

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday reiterated “the danger and the threat that Donald Trump poses to America and the fact that he is unfit to serve” when asked about criticism from Republican leaders of her rhetoric.

“Well, listen, we all have to speak out against any form of political violence, and I'm very clear about that. No one should be the subject of violence,” she told reporters, according to a report by Press Pool.

“But the American people deserve to be confronted with facts and the truth. And the fact and the truth is that some of the people who were closest to Donald Trump as president were generals, including most recently John Kelly, a four-star Marine. “The general has the danger and the threat that Donald Trump represented America represents, expressed very clearly and the fact that he is unfit for service. And the American people deserve to hear that and know about it,” the vice president continued.

Her campaign was initially quiet after Republican congressional leaders urged her to stop using “dangerous rhetoric” such as calling Trump a “fascist.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released a relatively rare joint statement Friday calling on Harris to stop such rhetoric and sending it to the two recent attacks against Trump.

“Calling a political opponent a 'fascist' risks inviting another potential assassin to try to rob voters of their choice before Election Day,” Republican leaders said in the statement less than two weeks before the election.

Harris' campaign initially declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.

“Vice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive power. But first it must abandon the vile and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions,” Johnson and McConnell wrote.

“We have both been informed of the ongoing and ongoing threats to former President Donald Trump from opponents of the United States and call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop the escalation of the threat environment, and help ensure that President Trump has the necessary resources “It is the resources necessary to protect against these threats,” they said.

The statement said there had been two assassination attempts against Trump in recent months and pointed out that “in the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States has only seen the flames under one has stoked the boiling cauldron.” political hostility.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

During a CNN town hall this week, Harris told host Anderson Cooper that she thinks Trump is a fascist.

“Yes, I do.”

Cooper noted that Harris had cited Milley's quotes about Trump in the past.

Harris went on to point to new interviews with Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly in the New York Times in which he said Trump “certainly falls within the general definition of fascist.”

Kelly further claimed that Trump once told him that “Hitler did some good things too.”

Trump has denied saying this.

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A new poll has found that former President Trump and his Vice President Kamala Harris are in a dead heat heading into Election Day. (AP/Alex Brandon/Mike Stewart)

According to the Kelly interview, he felt the need to speak out because of a recent comment Trump made in an interview on Fox News.

During a conversation with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Trump was asked about concerns about “chaos” on Election Day. The host mentioned a recent plot by an Afghan refugee that was foiled.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people who came in.” [are] Destruction of our country and, by the way, complete destruction of our country. “The cities, the villages are being flooded,” Trump began.

“But I don’t think they have the problem with Election Day in mind. I think the bigger problem is the people on the inside. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left-wing crazy people,” he said. “This should be handled very simply by the National Guard if necessary or by the military if it is really necessary, because they cannot allow this to happen.”

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Former President Trump famously raised his fist and shouted “fight” to the crowd after surviving an assassination attempt in July. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Harris' campaign has since picked up on the comment.

According to Johnson and McConnell, “her latest and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century appear to be bringing it to a boil.” The vice president's words are more similar to those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own previous appeal to civility.

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“This summer, after the first assassination attempt on a presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted that 'we cannot allow this violence to be normalized.'” In September, after President Trump escaped another sticky situation, Vice President Harris acknowledged that “we must all do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,” they emphasized.

However, “[t]“Those words have proven hollow,” they said.

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