Donald Trump tries to relaunch his campaign at a rally in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday, as polls show Kamala Harris leading pulling forward In key swing states.
But the former president shifted away from a prepared speech on economic issues and launched personal attacks on Harris, accusing her agenda of being both communist and fascist, and that she laughs “like a crazy person.”
Trump’s scripted speech at the 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre focused on economic policy. Some Republican strategists had hoped the former president could regain the initiative by focusing on issues such as inflation, on which opinion polls show voters trust Trump more than Democrats.
Trump attacked Harris for pushing price hikes as part of the Biden administration that have hit many Americans hard and called the rise in household costs the “worst ever.” Kamala Harris Inflation tax”.
“She was there for everything,” he said, referring to Biden’s attempts to impose policies on her.
Trump also compared Harris Pledge A sweeping program was held on Friday to tackle high grocery costs, target profiteering by food corporations in the Soviet economy, and reduce the cost of housing and prescription drugs.
“In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist,” he said. “Comrade Kamala announced that she wanted to introduce socialist price controls. You must have noticed that this has never happened before… This will lead to rationing, starvation and skyrocketing prices.”
The former president challenged voters to ask themselves if they were “better off with Kamala and Biden than they were under President Donald J. Trump,” a question that many asked Pennsylvania The answer may be in his favor.
But its impact quickly wore off as Trump once again deviated from his core agenda and made vague remarks about immigration in China and the issue of trans people, often based on blatant lies.
At one point, he even admitted that was what he was doing.
“They’d say he was talking nonsense. I don’t give a shit. I’m a really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don’t give a shit. But the other day, whenever I hit really hard, they’d say he was talking nonsense, talking nonsense,” he said.
Some in the audience wore T-shirts that read “I’m voting for a convicted criminal” and chanted “Fight, Fight, Fight,” a reference to the former president’s words shortly after he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt last month, and urged Trump on.
When they returned to their script, Trump attacked Harris for her past opposition to fracking, an unpopular stance in Pennsylvania, a major fracker, but he wouldn’t have helped himself in the Rust Belt by saying he would cut spending on infrastructure like bridges and road renovations, which have provided jobs in the region.
Trump also challenged Harris’s legitimacy as the Democratic presidential nominee and described it as a “coup” against Biden.
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“Joe Biden hates him. It was like overthrowing a president,” he said.
Trump confused some in the audience by saying that if Harris could become the nominee without a primary election, he should do so because she is so popular among voters. Republican,
He said, “I said, then why are we holding elections? Elections were not held there. Why are we holding elections?”
Trump called Harris’ decision to nominate Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate anti-Semitic, an apparent reference to the debate over whether Shapiro’s support for Israel, including working for Israel, is anti-Semitic. Israel Embassy In the past, the war in Gaza might have hurt the Democratic campaign.
“They turned him down because he’s Jewish. That’s why they turned him down. Now, we can be politically correct and not say that. I can say, well, they turned him down for a variety of reasons. No, no, they turned him down because he’s Jewish,” Trump said.
“And let me tell you, any Jewish person who votes for him or the Democrats needs to go out and get their head examined.”
Throughout all of this, Trump repeatedly launched personal attacks on Harris, including bizarre discussions of her way of laughing, which has proven particularly popular among many young voters.
“Have you heard his laugh? It’s a lunatic’s laugh. It’s a lunatic’s laugh, a madman’s laugh,” she said.