Trump: ‘If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing’
“Our entire nation is counting on the people of this great commonwealth,” Donald Trump said about Pennsylvania.
“We got to take our country back from these horrible people because, if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing,” he said.
Key events
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Summary
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Former president Donald Trump delivered a speech in Indiana, Pennsylvania, telling supporters: ‘If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing.’
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JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, refused to take a stance on the scandal involving North Carolina’s lieutenant governor during a Charlotte visit.
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A key Nebraska lawmaker rejected a Trump-backed effort to change state’s electoral vote rules.
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A government shutdown seems to have been averted, with Republican speaker Mike Johnson heading off the politically damaging disruption by agreeing to a spending deal that does not include measures against non-citizen voting, which Trump had demanded.
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Kamala Harris won the endorsements of hundreds of former national security and military officials, who said Trump “has proven he is not up to the job”.
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The White House laid out how Joe Biden will spend his final months in office, dubbing it the “sprint to the finish”.
On Twitter, Kamala Harris’s campaign also reacted to Trump’s remarks on abortion and the overturning of Roe v Wade.
“Trump: Nobody should want a federal law protecting abortion rights,” reads a tweet.
Donald Trump has ended his 96-minute speech in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Kamala Harris’s campaign reacted on Twitter to Trump’s pledge to close the Department of Education.
Trump later started using athletes in the Olympics to make anti-trans remarks and false claims. There were no transgender athletes who were competing outside of the gender they were assigned at birth at this year’s Olympic games.
“We are going to keep men out of women’s sports,” he said. “It’s so demeaning to women.”
Trump praises ‘brilliant and brave’ supreme court justices over Roe decision
“You will no longer be thinking about abortion,” Trump said to the women in the room. “It is now where it always had to be: with the states, and the vote of the people.”
“Everyone wanted abortion out of the federal government and into the states,” he said. “Six brilliant and very brave justices of the United States supreme court were able to do that for you, and they did it.”
Donald Trump turned his attention to women, claiming “women are poorer than they were four years ago.”
He claimed women are less healthy, less safe, and more depressed than during his administration.
“I am your protector,” he said. “As president, I have to be your protector.”
Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris for her history as a prosecutor and attorney general in California, as well as the environmental policies she plans to put in place.
“She wants to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles, which will destroy the Pennsylvania way of life,” he said.
“As Attorney General, she destroyed San Francisco and she destroyed all of California,” Trump said. “Now she’s coming to destroy the United States of America, and we’re not going to let it happen.”
Donald Trump brought Republican David McCormick to the stage. McCormick is running against the Democratic Senator Bob Casey in an uphill battle for the senatorial seat.
“It’s a battle between common sense and these radical liberal policies,” McCormick said.
Donald Trump continued making anti-immigrant remarks.
“If Kamala Harris wins this election, she will flood Pennsylvania cities and towns with illegal migrants from all over the world, and Pennsylvania will never be the same, you will never be the same,” he said.
“When I’m president, all migrant flights to Pennsylvania will stop immediately,” Trump said.
He then claimed that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s, a detail in her resumé she uses to win over a powerful bloc of working-class voters.
“She never worked there, and these fake news reporters will never report it,” he said.
After attacking Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, the crowd in Pennsylvania chanted “send them back!”
Donald Trump later attacked Venezuelan migrants, generalizing the community and calling them “lawless gangs,” while blaming them for problems in the housing market and with crime.
Donald Trump returned to his claim that the city of Aurora, Colorado, has been overrun by Venezuelan immigrants. Trump has been using Aurora and Springfield, Ohio, as examples of the Biden administration’s mistakes on immigration policies.
“Harris has inundated small towns all across America with hundreds of thousands of migrants,” he said.
He bragged about not using a teleprompter before asking: “Do you think Springfield will ever be the same?”
Trump and JD Vance, his running mate, have falsely claimed that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield – a statement that has been debunked.
The former president also touched on the famed Pennsylvania steel industry.
“We have to be strong and powerful again, and we must put tariffs on foreign predators,” he said. “We have to make US steel great again.”
During Trump’s administration, he imposed several rounds of tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, solar panels, and goods from China. He has said that, if elected, he will would impose 10% worldwide tariff and a 60% tariff on Chinese goods.
Trump touched a nerve with fracking in Pennsylvania, saying Kamala Harris is planning to ban it.
“If anybody here believes that she will let your energy industry continue fracking, you should immediately go to a psychiatrist,” he said.
“I will get Pennsylvania energy workers pumping, fracking, drilling and producing like never before.”
Donald Trump claimed that, during his presidency, foreign countries wouldn’t fight each other without his permission.
“They would call me up to ask whether or not they could go to war with some other country,” he said.
Trump took a stab at Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him “the greatest salesman in history” and said “he wants them to win this election so badly”.
Trump promises tax cuts if he wins in November
Donald Trump says he promises to deliver tax cuts, attacking Kamala Harris for her plans to raise the corporate income tax rate.
“Kamala Harris is the tax queen, and she’s coming for your money,” he said. “She’s coming for your pensions, and she’s coming for your savings, unless you defeat her in November.”
Trump then focused his speech on inflation, pointing to higher prices for energy and groceries.
“Vote Trump, and your incomes will soar,” he said. “Your net worth will skyrocket, your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down, and we will bring back the American dream, bigger, better and stronger than ever before.”
Former President Donald Trump once again falsely claimed that crime is going up, by 45 percent, despite recently released FBI statistics stating otherwise.
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