“I call it the enemy from within”Trump described domestic political figures with the language of internal enemies.
Transcript location: 00:58:13
Campaign rally · 2024-10-24
Las Vegas: Trump Calls Political Opponents the “Enemy From Within”
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Trump used the enemy-from-within formulation while criticizing Kamala Harris and Democrats, arguing that his political opponents were responsible for national harm.
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The speech shows the phrase being directed toward domestic political opposition in the final days of the campaign.
“She can’t put two sentences together”The rally substituted a sweeping insult for evidence-based evaluation of Harris’s qualifications.
Transcript location: 00:58:13
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