Donald Trump brought his MAGA road show to the childhood hometown of President Joe Biden, then tore into Kamala Harris for her appearance on ABC’s ‘The View’ and Biden for his impromptu press conference.
Trump insulted Harris nearly as soon as his remarks in the battleground state began Wednesday, calling her a ‘no-good liar’ and repeatedly attacking her intelligence and calling her ‘worse’ than Biden.
Trump ripped Harris for her response to interviewer Sunny Hostin, who asked her if she would have ‘done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?’
‘There is not a thing that comes to mind,’ was Harris’s response after an awkward pause.
‘She said I can’t think of anything,’ Trump said. ‘I think the other one asking the question is dumber than Kamala,’ he said, attacking the talk host.
‘She didn’t know what the hell to say,’ Trump said of Harris’s response. ‘But think of it, it was a softball question.’
Trump said Harris should have brought up the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel or anything else. ‘How about the fact that the United States is a laughing stock all over the world? How about that she failed on the witch hunts?’ Trump said.
Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Trump didn’t hold back from personal attacks on his rival. ‘We think you’re a horrible person, we think you’re a liar, we think you’re not a smart person and we’re tired of having stupid people run our country. And we’re going to say: Kamala you’re fired, get the hell out of here,’ Trump yelled, earning applause in the room.
He tore into the president as well, except when he was comparing Biden to his governing partner. ‘He’s looking pretty good compared to Kamala,’ Trump said.
‘I said you know this guy’s starting to look sharper,’ Trump mused. He claimed of Biden: ‘He’s angry at her. And he hates her.’
The former president repeated his claim that Biden stepping back from reelection was the result of a ‘coup’, despite polls showing most Democrats are happy with the move to sub in Harris.
Declaring himself ‘off the teleprompter,’ Trump gave a bad review to Biden’s recent surprise turn in the White House briefing room.
‘Did you see he held a news conference right in the middle of her one big event that she’s had in about two weeks? He got up and held a news conference. Nobody ever does that. And then he just died up there. It doesn’t matter,’ Trump said.
Trump blasted Kamala Harris for her appearance on ‘The View’
Trump blasted Harris for how she handled a ‘softball’ question
Trump himself occasionally fielded questions from reporters during his term from the White House briefing room. Harris recently brought up one, when he spoke about injecting disinfectant early in the pandemic.
Trump pointed to the pen of press covering him and reached for attacks from his 2016 campaign. ‘They’re all fake news these people theyr’e totally crooked,’ he said.
‘They’re the enemy of the people,’ said Trump, using a phrase with associations with the Soviet Union.
He compared himself to Al Capone for facing a barrage of investigations. ‘Of course he used to kill the investigators,’ Trump said.
Trump spoke before a few thousand people at the indoor Riverfront Sports Complex along the Lackawanna River.
But he flashed the crowd huge aerial images of his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and promised more big ones.
‘We have some very big ones coming. We just rented Madison Sqaure Garden,’ Trump said.
At the top of his remarks, he only glanced by his election fraud claims, which have drawn new attention since the vice presidential debate.
‘We did great in 2016. We actually did much better in 2020,’ Trump said.
With battleground Pennsylvania seen as a pure tossup, Trump’s camp is determined to snatch away a pice of the Democrats’ ‘blue wall.’
The state was an epicenter of Trump’s claims of election fraud that got tossed out of court, but Biden won the state by 60,000 votes.
Biden, who was here days ago to speak at the funeral of a childhood friend, is no longer on the ballot. But his protege Kamala Harris is, and the president desperately wants to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.
Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, pointed out that Truimp’s rally was in Joe Biden’s home town
A supporter of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, stands, on the day of Trump’s campaign event at Riverfront Sports in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Trump scheduled a second rally in Reading, Pennsylvania
Warming up the crowd, former Trump primary rival Vivek Ramaswamy while warming up the crowd, gave credit to Trump for ‘coming right here to Scranton, to Joe Biden’s home town.’
‘If we deliver November 5, Joe Biden’s home town for Donald Trump, what do we tell the rest of the country with that, huh?’ he said to cheers.
Biden was in Philadelphia Monday night – tending to a city he visited repeatedly when hoping to keep Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes in his own column – while also hauling in campaign cash for Sen. Bob Casey, who grew up just two blocks from him in Scranton.
Trump leads Biden by two points, 49 to 47, in a new Insider Advantage Pennsylvania poll released Tuesday. They are tied at 48 percent in the RealClearPolitics voting average.
Biden beat Trump in Lackawanna County, which includes Scranton, in 2020, prevailing by 9,000 votes and winning it 54 to 45.
But Biden had a unique appeal to the town and the region, constantly stressing his middle class roots and ‘Scranton’ values, while making occasional visits to his childhood home.
Trump drew a big crowd Saturday when he campaigned in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of where he got shot in the ear during an assassination attempt.
Former President Barack Obama, who twice carried the state, will be in Pittsburgh on Thursday as he tries to lend his star power and popularity to boost Harris.
Trump supporters who gathered Wednesday were treated to a Trump video, which airs regularly at his events, where he accused political rivals of cheating. ‘These people want to cheat and they do cheat,’ Trump says.
Trump’s fire at his opponents was also reflected in the opening prayer by Frank Bissol, pastor of Elkdale Baptist Church. ‘I pray to protect President Trump from assassination attempts. I pray to protect him from the mischief of those who seek to weaponize our judicial system,’ he said.
