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‘Fascist’ is a Harris closing argument against Trump. Will the label stick?

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Democrats and some of Donald Trump’s own former aides are calling him a fascist.

“Fascism” can be a stand-in for “dictatorship” or “autocracy’ is a Harris closing argument against Trump .

Left in the middle may be voters trying to see reality through all the apocalyptic rhetoric.

The Trump campaign went into damage-control mode, issuing a rare statement saying, ”This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign” Mr. Trump is scheduled to hold a rally Tuesday night in Allentown , Pennsylvania a Puerto Rican -majority city in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

The Harris campaign is hoping that the latest tempest over rhetoric will heighten scrutiny of how he might govern if reelected.

Most of those voters said they believed that the “guardrails in place to protect democracy” would hold.

More trusted Mr. Trump to handle those threats than President Joe Biden , who was then still the presumptive Democratic nominee.

The six states polled were Pennsylvania , Michigan , Wisconsin , Arizona , Nevada , and Georgia .