RNC spokesperson compares Democratic candidates to Benito Mussolini

Elizabeth Harrington and Harris Faulkner.
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Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Harrington said she agrees with President Trump that there are no Winston Churchills in the ever-expanding crop of Democratic presidential candidates, but some of them do remind her of another World War II-era leader. Harrington told Fox News' Harris Faulkner that several of the candidates reminded her of Benito Mussolini, the authoritarian leader of Italy from 1922 to 1945.

Harrington pointed to what she considers radical agendas, such as the alleged desire to eventually render air travel obsolete, as her reasoning for comparing the Democrats to the Italian dictator.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.