Hillary Clinton marked the 80th anniversary of Sen. Normandy’s (D) nomination for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a social media post characterizing former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy on par with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
In a post on X on Thursday, Clinton suggested democracy is at stake in the upcoming presidential election, in which Republican front-runner former President Trump is challenging incumbent Democratic President Biden.
“80 years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to defend our democracy on the beaches of Normandy,” Clinton said in a Thursday post on X. “This November, all we have to do is vote.”
The Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, are one of the most famous moments in U.S. military history, marking a turning point in World War II and the beginning of American and Allied forces’ liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule. Her comments as a losing Democratic candidate in 2016 suggest that her former rival, Trump, is a threat to democracy, just like Hitler’s Third Reich, which sought world domination through conquest.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the opening night of the Broadway show “The Wiz” at the Marquee Theatre on April 17, 2024 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
This is not the first time Clinton has compared Trump to Hitler. In a May 21 post on X, she called Trump “Hitler the Trickster” and shared an Associated Press article about a video posted to Trump’s Truth Social account that mentioned a “United Empire” in a hypothetical headline if Trump won the November election. The Trump campaign said the video was “created by a random online account and posted by a staffer who clearly hadn’t seen the words.”
A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to a request for comment.
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“Hillary Clinton is a cold-hearted loser who presided over the horrific Benghazi massacre that resulted in the deaths of Americans,” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chang told Fox News Digital. “No one takes Hillary seriously because it’s clear she’s made a fool of herself to stay relevant since she was defeated by President Trump in 2016.”
Democrats and President Biden have consistently attacked Trump as a threat to democracy since the Jan. 6 riot, when a mob of Trump supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol and interrupted Congress’ certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated Trump in 2021. They also accuse Republicans of acting to disenfranchise minorities through voter ID laws, restrictions on mail-in voting and other election restrictions that Democrats say make it harder to vote.
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Recent polls show that voters say they trust President Biden more than former President Trump when it comes to issues of election integrity and protecting democracy. (Win McNamee/Michael M. Santiago)
President Trump has dismissed the attacks, saying in a recent Fox News interview that he is the “opposite of” a threat to democracy.
In polls on the issues at stake in the presidential election, voters consistently say they trust Biden more than Trump on issues such as election integrity, preserving and protecting our democracy and ensuring fair elections. A recent Fox News poll found Biden leading Trump by 7 points on the issue of election integrity.
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But Trump leads Biden on key issues including the border, immigration, the economy, foreign policy and crime, according to Fox News’ Power Rankings issue tracker.
