Obama calls Trump 'wannabe king' at Harris event

John Kelly, who served as chief of staff in Trump's administration, described the former president as a "fascist" during an interview with the New York Times.

"Well, looking at the definition of fascism, it's a far right, authoritarian, ultra nationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized hypocrisy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief, natural, social hierarchy," Kelly told the newspaper. "So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks will prove work better in terms of running America."

Kelly also said he believed Trump would "love" to be a dictator, and that he was comfortable saying Adolf Hitler "did some good things, too." Kelly also claimed Trump referred to veterans who lost limbs as "losers and suckers."

The Trump campaign pushed back in a statement.

"John Kelly has totally beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated because he failed to serve his President well while working as Chief of Staff and currently suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. President Trump has always honored the service and sacrifice of all of our military men and women, whereas Kamala Harris has completely disrespected the families of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, including the Abbey Gate 13," said campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung.

Telemundo, the Spanish-language television network, released clips on Tuesday of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris — part of a more extensive conversation that will be aired on Wednesday.

In the clips, she comments primarily on her economic position and plan, describing herself as a "pragmatic capitalist."

"I am a capitalist. I am a pragmatic capitalist," she can be heard saying in one of the clips.

She went on to describe the need for leadership in America that actively works with the private sector "to drive new industries and build up small-business owners, to allow us to increase home ownership, to allow people and their families to build intergenerational wealth."

She also stated that a new approach would need to understand "that some of the best jobs that we have available don't necessarily require a college degree."

In a separate clip, when asked how that plan might affect Latino men, Harris answered, "A lot of my agenda is about creating opportunity for people to succeed. So, for example, part of the agenda that I've already presented, I am very aware how it would affect Latino men."

She explained that it involved building a strong economy that supports working people, and especially small-business owners, and added: "I know that Latino men often have a more difficult time having access to the big loans from the big banks because of relationships, because of things that are not necessarily grounded in their qualifications. So, I am focused on what we can do to bring more capital to community banks that will understand the community and be able to give those kinds of loans."

Returning to her thoughts on the importance of families establishing generational wealth, she also said that part of her economic plan that would impact Latinos would be $25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homeowners.

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow, Conor J. Finnegan, Will McDuffie

President Joe Biden said former President Donald Trump poses a "genuine threat" to American democracy, during a visit to New Hampshire Democratic Party headquarters, saying, "We gotta lock him. Politically lock him up."

The remarks came after Biden listed Trump's proposals such as doing away with the Department of Education, taking on the federal civil service and the Supreme Court's recent decision granting presidents broad immunity. Biden said: “I mean, so I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like – if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up."

Then Biden said, referring to Trump, "We gotta lock him up. Politically lock him up. Lock him out, that’s what we have to do.”

"Lock her up" was an oft-repeated line by Trump and his supporters in 2016, a reference to Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information on her private email server.

Trump's campaign quickly seized on Biden's comments, calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to condemn the remarks and pushing claim that it shows Trump's legal battles are purely political -- charges prosecutors have repeatedly denied.

"Joe Biden just admitted the truth: he and Kamala's plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can't beat him fair and square," Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary of the Trump campaign, said in a statement. "The Harris-Biden Admin is the real threat to democracy. We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden's disgraceful remark."

— ABC News' Justin Gomez, Lalee Ibssa, Soorin Kim, Kelsey Walsh

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, told ABC News Live "Voters should vote for themselves,” in response to Vice President Kamala Harris’ team running an attack advertisement against her. The ad, which started airing in the last week in some swing states, claimed that "a vote for Stein is really a vote for Trump."

"Voters are being told over and over again that you don’t own your vote, that politicians own your vote," the candidate who ran for the White House in 2012 and 2016, said in an interview on Tuesday.

"We do not have a lesser evil candidate, we have two greater evils," Stein added, about Americans casting a vote for either former President Donald Trump or Harris.

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A large part of Stein's campaign has focused on slamming Harris for the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.

In the 2016 election, the serial candidate received almost 1.5 million votes, enough votes in the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to exceed Trump’s margins of victory.

Stein said that if she wasn’t on the ballot, a "vast majority of those voters would not have come out to vote."

-ABC News’ Shannon Caturano