ERIE, Pa, Oct 15, (AP): US Vice President Kamala Harris zeroed in on former President Donald Trump 's comments suggesting the US military could be used to deal with "the enemy from within” as the two presidential nominees took the fight for battleground Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state on Monday. Harris, at her rally in northwestern Pennsylvania, called Trump a serious threat to American democracy who is "out for unchecked power.”

"He considers anyone who doesn’t support him or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country,” Harris said after playing a clip of the comment on the jumbo screen at her rally at an Erie arena. "This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.”

Democrat Harris and Republican Trump have been become fixtures in the country's largest 2024 battleground state. It was Harris' 10th visit to Pennsylvania this campaign season, and Trump's Monday town hall in suburban Philadelphia came after visits last week to Scranton and Reading. Harris is highlighting what she says are examples of Trump's increasingly "unstable and unhinged” behavior.

It's part of her effort to win over a small universe of undecided voters and tear away even a small slice of traditionally Republican voters in the fight for Pennsylvania and six other closely contested states that are expected to determine who wins next month's election. She argued that Trump's comments in a Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures” interview are the latest example of threatening rhetoric from the former president that should concern Americans about what a potential second Trump term could look like.