Donald Trump wrapped up his speech in Erie, Pennsylvania, by summing up his proposals as a presidential candidate, pledging to end crime allegedly by migrants, strengthen the military, and “keep critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our schools”.
Donald Trump repeated his plan to close the Department of Education if he’s elected as president in November.
“Let the states run their own education,” he said.
“We spend more money per pupil than any other nation in the world, by far, and yet we’re ranked at the bottom of every list,” Trump said. “So you know the expression: what the hell do you have to lose? Right?”
Donald Trump claimed Butler, Pennsylvania, has become a tourist site after his attempted assassination in July.
“Cars are riding by. They’re taking pictures. It’s become an amazing tourist site,”he said.
Trump announced that the event in Butler will honor the firefighter who was shot and killed at the rally in July, Corey Comperator.
During his speech, Donald Trump confirmed he will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the attempted assassination attempt in July. His visit is scheduled for 5 October.
“We have a lot of people coming, and I really believe that will be the safest place on Earth,” said the former president.
Donald Trump brought US Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania to the stage. McCormick, ex-CEO of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, is trying to unseat Democratic Senator Bob Casey, who is seeking his fourth term.
“It’s a race between strength, a guy who says ‘fight’, and weakness,” McCormick said. “We need to bring law and order to secure that border and stop these illegal immigrants coming in and bringing crime and fentanyl into Pennsylvania.”
Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance that workers’ tips should not be taxed.
He was the first candidate to endorse this proposal during a rally in June. Months later, Kamala Harris also expressed support for the plan, prompting the former president to label her “Copy Cat Kamala” at other rallies.
“We will have no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security benefits for seniors,” Trump said on Sunday.
“When I win, we will get Pennsylvania energy workers, fracking, drilling, pumping and producing like they have never produced before,” Donald Trump said.
“Kamala vowed to repeatedly ban fracking, and she imposed a natural gas export ban that was a killer, that is starving a state right now of your wealth and wealth that you deserve right now,” Trump said.
Trump criticized Harris’s support for expanding access and manufacturing of electric vehicles in the US.
“Her insane electric vehicle mandate will decimate Pennsylvania’s economy by abolishing gas-powered cars and trucks for American roads and destroying your fossil fuel industry,” he said. “And there are very few states that benefit like you do from fracking.”
Donald Trump quoted the lyrics of a song supposedly warning against immigration during his speech in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Trump read the lyrics of The Snake, which was written by civil rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963. The song was later a hit for soul singer Al Wilson five years later.
In Trump’s interpretation, it serves as a cautionary tale about the alleged danger posed by immigrants. The former president recounted the allegorical tale of a woman who foolishly embraces a dangerous serpent.
The former president once again called Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” during his speech in Pennsylvania on Sunday.
“Joe Biden became mentally impaired,” Trump said, adding that Harris “was born that way”.
“There’s something wrong with Kamala, and I just don’t know what it is, but there is definitely something missing. And you know what? Everybody knows it,” Trump said.
He later played an ad against the vice-president, composed of a compilation of her comments regarding immigration.
“Honestly, we could give you clips like that all day long. This is not your president. This president would destroy our country, worse than Biden. He’s the worst president in history,” the former president said.
Donald Trump continued his anti-immigrant comments by claiming the crime rate has risen because of migrants, blaming them for theft at department stores.
“We have to let the police do their job, and if they have to be extraordinarily rough …” Trump said.
“The police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told, if you do anything, you’re gonna lose your pension. You’re gonna lose your family, your house, your car,” Trump added. “They’re not allowed to do it because the liberal left won’t let them do it.”
Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a radical left lunatic”. He criticized her speech on Friday focused on immigration and her policies on the southern border, as well as her background as a prosecutor in California.
“She actually had a terrible record as a prosecutor,” he said. “She destroyed San Francisco, but what she’s done is a total disqualifier. She should be disqualified. She should resign the vice-presidency and go home to California.”
Donald Trump said he cannot use the word “Marxist” to attack Kamala Harris because “nobody knows what that is.”
“Most people said: ‘What’s a Marxist? Is that a good thing or bad?’” Trump said.
“I have to use the word communist,” he added.
Trump attacked Kamla Harris for her previous position on a fracking ban. Now, the vice-president says that she will not attempt to ban fracking if elected president.
He shifted to her policies on the southern border, making anti-immigrant claims by once again calling newly arrived migrants from central America “stone-cold killers”.
“Erie County was known as a Democrat area until Trump came along,” Trump said, referring to himself in the third person.
“Our entire nation is counting on the people of the Commonwealth, and I know you will not let us down,” Trump said. “You’re not going to let us down. We’re going to have a tremendous vote. We’re leading by a lot in Pennsylvania.”
Donald Trump referenced the Alabama-Georgia college football game he attended on Saturday, saying the crowd went “stone-cold crazy” when he walked in.
Before he attended the game, the former president held a rally in Wisconsin’s Prairie du Chien Area Arts Center.
“The administration would not let us have 50,000, maybe more people,” he said.
“We were going to do an outdoor rally, and we ended up having to do it inside,” Trump said. “They said they couldn’t get us enough people because they were guarding the United Nations.”
Donald Trump began his remarks in Erie, Pennsylvania.
He sent his condolences to the families in the south-eastern part of the US, still feeling the brutal effects of Hurricane Helene.
“It’s been absolutely devastating,” he said. Trump added that the hurricane “hit a lot harder than anyone even thought possible”.
He later criticized Joe Biden for “sleeping right now in one of his many estates”.
Former president Donald Trump is running late, per usual, for his scheduled remarks in Erie, Pennsylvania.
His rally comes about a month after Trump’s vice-presidential pick, Senator JD Vance, held his event in the lakeside city.
Campaign advisers are naming Pennsylvania as the most important battleground state ahead of the elections in November. Pennsylvania is the most populous battleground state and awards the most votes in the electoral college.
Donald Trump is scheduled to make remarks at a rally shortly in Erie, Pennsylvania, and we’ll be following his remarks.
The rally is taking place at the Bayfront Convention Center. Trump’s next rally in Pennsylvania is slated for 5 October in Butler, about 100 miles south of Erie, revisiting the site of the attempted assassination attempt in July, according to his website.
Erie county, in the north-west corner of the state, is what’s known as a “boomerang county” by election experts. It boomeranged from Democrats to Republicans and back in recent presidential election cycles.
The county voted for Barack Obama twice, then Trump in 2016, and for Joe Biden in 2020 by a narrow margin.
Larry Hogan, a Republican Senate candidate in Maryland, criticized Donald Trump’s recent remarks calling Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” during an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.
“I think that’s insulting, not only to the vice-president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities,” Hogan said. “I’ve said for years that Trump’s divisive rhetoric is something that we could do without. I think he’s his own worst enemy.”
Trump attacked Harris at a campaign rally on Saturday, referencing her visit to the US-Mexico border on Friday and questioning her mental capacity amid the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the border crisis.
