Democratic presidential candidate Beto O�Rourke is comparing the rhetoric used by President Donald Trump to describe immigrants to the rhetoric used in Nazi Germany.

At a town hall in Iowa on Thursday, O�Rourke called out �the rhetoric of a president who not only describes immigrants as rapists and criminals but as animals and an infestation,� in response to a question on how he would address attacks from Republicans.

The former congressman from Texas says, �Now, I might expect someone to describe another human being as an infestation in the Third Reich. I would not expect that in the United States of America.�

O�Rourke says he will avoid using similar rhetoric because �if we descend into that pettiness and meanness and those personal attacks, I�m not sure that we can win.�

The White House didn�t immediately respond to a request for comment.

(AP)