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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump says ‘I’m not a dictator’ but top figures warn of authoritarian takeover

Donald Trump stands for the national anthem sung by people who participated in the January 6 attack. He leads Republican primary polling by vast margins.
Donald Trump stands for the national anthem sung by people who participated in the January 6 attack. He leads Republican primary polling by vast margins. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

With the Republican presidential primary little more than a month away, leading figures in US politics including Liz Cheney, Joe Biden and Donald Trump himself are warning of the potential for an authoritarian takeover should Trump return to power.

“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican who vice-chaired the House January 6 committee before being ejected from Congress, told CBS while promoting her memoir.

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