At a meeting in the current president’s stronghold, Donald Trump admitted that he did not intend to change the style of his campaign at all. “I don’t want to be nice,” he told his supporters. Less than a month before the presidential election, the Republican candidate therefore increased his attacks against his rival Kamala Harris during a particularly virulent meeting, organized in Joe Biden’s hometown.
“She is incompetent, we cannot trust her and she is totally incapable of being president,” criticized the former Republican leader, candidate in the November 5 election. Kamala Harris is, according to him, “a liar”, who “doesn’t even know where she is”. If she “is elected, your expenses will increase and your lights will go out,” he assured an assembly of Trumpist supporters, wearing the famous red caps.
Recurrent attacks against migrants
In Scranton, a town of 75,000 inhabitants in Pennsylvania which Joe Biden calls himself, Donald Trump also described the Democratic president as a “pathetic” and “sad” man. In this northeastern state which is one of the most contested in the presidential election, he also repeated his diatribes against migrants, affirming that the United States was being “poisoned” at the border with Mexico.
Meeting after meeting, the former president paints an increasingly dark picture of an America ravaged, according to him, by migrants, galloping inflation and devastating self-righteousness. “Our country has just suffered four years of an absolute horror film, we cannot afford four more years,” he insisted again on Wednesday.
Donald Trump Saturday in California
He then had to make a stop in another town in Pennsylvania, a state where he won by a narrow margin in 2016 but where Joe Biden won down to the wire in 2020. The blue-collar workers of this declining territory industrialists for many years, many have left the Democratic ship to join the Republican camp. But Kamala Harris is counting on the major infrastructure projects launched by Joe Biden, which create jobs, and the support of unions to win them back.
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Beyond key states, Donald Trump also seeks to tickle the Democrats in their strongholds. He will be at a meeting in California on Saturday – known to be very progressive – and announced on Wednesday that he was planning an event in the legendary Madison Square Garden venue in New York.
