At a CNN event, Kamala Harris agrees that Trump is a fascist.

Vice President Kamala Harris has stepped up her attacks on former aides’ reports that former President Donald Trump has authoritarian tendencies, agreeing at a CNN town hall event Wednesday that he is a fascist.

The Democratic presidential candidate said “I do” when asked by host Anderson Cooper if he agreed with former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s recent characterization of Trump as fitting the definition of a fascist.

Harris’s agreement with Kelly was an increasingly sharpened criticism she had made earlier in the day in remarks to reporters in Washington.

“We know what Donald Trump wants. “He wants unchecked power,” he said, taking aim at another thing Kelly said. Trump expressed his admiration for Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler and his generals.

Kelly is not the only former Trump aide recently quoted as thinking Trump would want to consolidate government power within the Oval Office if he is re-elected.

Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Trump administration, called President Trump “a fascist to the core,” according to a new book written by Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.

“I had my doubts when I talked to you about his mental decline, etc., but now I realize he is a complete fascist,” Milley is quoted in the book.

In an appearance on CNN, Harris said people who work in the White House and know Trump best should listen when they call him “unfit and dangerous.”

Kelly’s comments, in particular, amounted to “a 911 call to the American people,” she said.

“You can’t stand behind the seal of the President of the United States and say you want to abolish the Constitution of the United States,” she said, citing Trump’s social media posts. In the event of election fraud, constitutional provisions may be waived. Neither court nor election reviews of the 2020 votes he challenged found widespread fraud.

Harris’s comments marked an escalation of her rhetoric, but Trump has never been shy about calling his political opponents enemies of democracy, communists, Marxists and fascists.

As recently as October 16, Trump told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner that the Democratic Party is “the enemy from within.”

“They are very dangerous. “They are Marxists, communists, fascists and they are sick,” he said.

Kamala Harris also took pains to highlight the big differences between herself and Trump during her town hall. What she says, unlike Trump, is that she wants a pragmatic approach to policy.

“I think the American people deserve a president who is based on common sense, pragmatism and the best interests of the people, not on himself,” she said.

But she may have undermined her message of bipartisanship somewhat by reiterating her position that the Senate minority’s preferred procedural weapon, the filibuster, may need to be scrapped if there is legal precedent for Roe v. Wade being overturned. A bill granting women national abortion rights is being revived.

Cooper asked how realistically he would work to restore Roe by codifying it into law, which would require passage in the House and a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.

“Honestly, I think we need to look at the filibuster.” she said

Last September, Harris appeared on a Wisconsin public radio station and said she favored at least separating abortion from the filibuster.

“I think we need to get to the point where we need 51 votes to eliminate the filibuster on Roe and re-enact protections for reproductive freedom into law,” she said.

Cooper also pressed Harris on whether she believed one of Trump’s signature plans, a border wall with Mexico, was “stupid.” Even though Harris said the money would have been included in the border compromise bill she supported, Cooper called it “stupid.” For wall construction.

“You don’t think that’s stupid anymore?” Cooper asked.

“I don’t think it means much what he did or how he did it. Because he didn’t actually do anything,” Harris responded.

“But do you want to build a wall?” Cooper said.

Harris responded, “I want to strengthen our borders.”