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Vice President Kamala Harris plans to denounce Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday night over the former president's remark that the U.S. military should fight “the enemy from within” on Election Day, a senior Harris campaign official said.

It is the latest example of Harris' campaign drawing sharper distinctions from Trump in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, portraying him as dangerous and unstable, using the former president's words and those of his former advisers.

Harris will be in Erie on Monday to highlight Trump's comments Sunday on Fox News, when he said he was not concerned about his supporters' actions on Election Day.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy within,” he said.

“We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. “Radical left-wing lunatics,” Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

Harris wants to warn on Monday that Trump's actions could endanger people's freedom. Harris' campaign will also release a new ad titled “Enemy Within,” in which Trump's campaign cites the phrase “the enemy within.”

The 30-second spot features two former Trump staffers: Olivia Troye, who served as an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, and Kevin Carroll, a former Trump Homeland Security official.

“I remember the day he suggested shooting people in the street,” Troye says in the ad.

“The second term would be worse,” Carroll says in the ad. “There will be no one who can stop his worst instincts. Unbridled power. No guardrails. If we elect Trump again, we will be in grave danger.”

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio confirmed Trump's comments during an event on Monday.

“Is it a justified use of these assets when there is rioting, looting and burning of cities? Of course it is. Right? I think the question is whether it's a justified use of assets depends on what actually happens,” Vance told reporters in Minneapolis.

Vance also claimed that there is “a core group of radical left-wing activists” willing to harass and commit violence against other fellow Americans in 2016 and after the death of George Floyd in 2020.

Vance said “one of the ways” he interpreted the “enemy within” comment was unvetted undocumented immigrants in the country due to the Biden administration's Border Patrol, while Trump suggested people inside the country posed a greater threat.

“Over the last three and a half years, thanks to her special post-disaster immigrant visa program, Kamala Harris’s open border has allowed entry to at least hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people who we know are on the terrorism watch list.” “Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Vance said. “The enemy within are people that Kamala Harris allowed into this country unchecked, unchecked and undocumented.”

During her event on Monday, Harris also plans to show attendees in Erie what Trump rallies are like, the aide said.

She has previously urged voters to keep an eye on Trump's rallies — an unusual move for a candidate and one that underscores the Harris campaign's belief that an unfiltered Trump is damaging his own prospects.

“You will see that during his rallies he talks about fictional characters like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about how windmills cause cancer. And what you'll also notice is that people are starting to leave his rallies early because of exhaustion and boredom,” Harris said in her debate with Trump last month.

Her campaign in recent days has featured Republicans, including former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, highlighting Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his supporters' attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Last week, it launched an ad in North Carolina that included highlights of a recent campaign event with Cheney.

“Former generals, defense secretaries, secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, CIA directors and National Security Council leaders under Democratic and Republican presidents, Republican congressmen and even former Trump administration officials agree: There is only one candidate, “Lead our nation and that is Kamala Harris,” said a narrator at this point.

This story has been updated with additional reporting.