READING. On Wednesday, the 2024 campaign enters the final weeks of former President Donald Trump, who campaigned in eastern Pennsylvania, making his first stop that day in President Joe Biden’s childhood hometown of Scranton.
“It’s great to return to a beautiful Commonwealth of Nations with thousands of proud, hard-working American patriots,” Trump told the audience at the Riverfront Sports Arena in Scranton. “In 27 days we will win Pennsylvania, we will defeat lying Kamala Harris.”
During a more than 80-minute speech in Scranton, he criticized Harris for a wide range of policies while claiming he “didn’t like her” and said someone came up to him telling him to be nicer to Harris, adding that women wouldn’t do that . I like it.
“Today a guy came up to me and said, ‘Sir, you really should be nicer, women won’t like it,'” Trump said. “I think women want security and they want to have a country they can be proud of.”
He lashed out at Biden, who withdrew from the race in July after a impoverished performance in the debate with Trump, and supported Harris’ candidacy. “I’m telling you, like I said, he looks better now than I’ve ever seen him. He’s furious, he’s furious at her,” Trump said of Biden, without providing evidence.
Biden campaigned alongside Harris in Pennsylvania.
Harris and Biden campaign in Pittsburgh as the presidential race enters its decisive phase
Trump has boasted about his support for lowering the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% for companies that make products in America and his support for tariffs, claiming that the country was the richest when the United States imposed stiff tariffs.
For this, Trump criticized Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaking at a private gathering on Tuesday that “the electoral college must go.”
“They want to abolish the Electoral College,” Trump said. “Taking away all voting power essentially from voters in places like Pennsylvania.”
She reported this to CBS News Harris-Walz campaign said in a statement that Walz “believes that every vote in the Electoral College matters and is honored to travel the country and battleground states working to build support for Harris-Walz’s ticket.” He spoke before a crowd of robust supporters about how the campaign to get 270 electoral votes was being constructed. He also thanked them for their support that helps fund these efforts.”
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, said during a call with reporters before Trump’s visit that he couldn’t imagine the former president returning to the White House.
“A guy like Donald Trump has never had a summer job. He never worked after school. He never struggled. He got an envelope full of money from his father to start a company,” said former Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, on a call with reporters before Trump’s visit. “Vote for Harris and Walz and, as Vice President Harris recently said, ‘turn the page’ on this nightmare.”
Trump referenced the recent rally in Butler during his speech in Scranton and touted that he has the support of billionaire Tesla CEO and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, who has said he will campaign for the former president in Pennsylvania.
Trump returns to Butler for a campaign rally at the site of the assassination attempt
Vivek Ramaswamy, a former GOP presidential candidate who became a staunch ally of Trump as soon as he ended his candidacy, said the nation was in the middle of a “national identity crisis” at a campaign event in Scranton.
Ramaswamy reiterated his belief that the nation is in a “1776 moment,” and likened Elon Musk to a “modern-day Benjamin Franklin” and likened U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate, to the nation’s first vice president , John Adams.
“And the man who will lead us from the front is the George Washington of our era,” Ramaswamy said. “This is Donald Trump. This is the George Washington of our times in 1776.”
Harris’ campaign noted after Trump’s rally in Scranton that it took him over an hour to mention Hurricane Milton, which is approaching Florida. Trump, however, mentioned the storm that forced residents to evacuate on Wednesday within the first minute of a rally in Reading.
Dave McCormick, the Republican Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate, gave his usual trashy speech at an event in Scranton, explaining why he is challenging U.S. Senator Bob Casey (R-PA).
“He was weak when we needed strength, and he repeatedly voted for the most liberal policies, so Bob Casey went to the Senate to change Washington, Washington changed Bob Casey,” McCormick said. “He’s not the guy you picked thirty or eighteen years ago.”
On Tuesday, Casey was joined by Biden at a private fundraiser in the Philadelphia areain which the president said that “Bob Casey never left Pennsylvania … it’s part of who he is, but his opponent left Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania certainly left him,” according to pool reports.
Biden is campaigning for Casey in Pennsylvania at a private fundraiser
“As David McCormick continues to campaign with Donald Trump, he cannot avoid criticizing Trump for ‘managing money for communist China,’” said TaNisha Cameron, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
Trump’s visit to Scranton was his first event in Biden’s hometown in the 2024 campaign, although it is not his first visit to northeastern Pennsylvania. August 17 Trump held a rally in nearby Wilkes-Barrewhere he sharply criticized Biden and Harris over the economy. Harris also appeared once in the Northeast, organizing a rally in Wilkes-Barre on September 13.
I’m heading to Reading
Trump’s rally in Reading will be the first visit to Berks County in 2024 by the highest-scoring candidate in either poll, though both vice presidential candidates appeared There.
In Reading, where the evening rally will take place, the Latino population is 69%, according to 2020 Census data. 23.2% of Berks County residents are Latinomaking the county the second largest Latino population in the state, trailing only Lehigh County with 25.9%.
Both campaigns are trying to attract Latino voters.
Trump’s campaign began in June campaign office in Reading with the intention of attracting Latino voters. On Wednesday, Harris’ campaign announced the launch of “Hombres con Harris,” an effort to mobilize support for Latino men, with events planned in three battleground states, including Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.
While Biden carried Lackawanna County, Trump won Berks County 2020winning there 53% of the votes.
Northeastern Pennsylvania played a significant role in two presidential elections, with Trump leading the Republican Party. During Trump’s successful 2016 candidacy over Democrat Hillary Clinton turned Luzerne County redon Wilkes-Barre’s home turf, winning by just 20 points four years after President Barack Obama won the county by 5 points over Republican Mitt Romney. Trump did not win Lackawanna County in 2016 and only lost the county by 3.5 points, while Obama carried the county by 27 points.
Biden improved margins in his home region during that time 2020 campaign. Biden won Lackawanna County by 8 points and lost Luzerne County by 14 points.
The statewide blitz will continue beyond Wednesday in both campaigns.
- On Thursday, former President Barack Obama will campaign for Harris’ ticket in Pittsburgh.
- Vance will speak in Johnstown on Saturday.
- Harris will reportedly make her first campaign appearance on Monday in Erie, a combative county in the Northwest.
The latest polls continue to show Harris and Trump in a tough situation, while most national ratings agencies continue to describe the Keystone State race as a “loss.”
While Pennsylvania remains in the spotlight during the election, Trump also told those gathered that he would hold an event at Madison Square Garden in New York and assured that his campaign would also be a fun one for New Jersey, Virginia, New York, New Mexico and Minnesota – all states Biden won in 2020
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