Donald Trump holds campaign rally in SoCal

COACHELLA, Calif. -- With little than 25 days to the election, erstwhile President Donald Trump spent his Saturday evening campaigning successful Coachella, a predominately bluish assemblage helium didn't triumph successful 2020 and could apt suffer again.

Trump spent clip dissing Vice President Kamala Harris' grounds arsenic California's apical prosecutor.

"Kamala Harris and the extremist Democrats person destroyed this state," Trump told a assemblage of supporters.

The erstwhile president besides attacked Harris and Democrats connected the state's economy.

"We're going to marque America affordable again," Trump said. "For each of the moving radical struggling nether the highest taxation authorities successful the nation, we volition person ample taxation cuts."

Trump slammed Harris connected amerciable migration on the confederate border, promising supporters determination volition beryllium wide deportations.

Speaking for 80 minutes Saturday night, Trump ran done the modular database of Republican complaints astir the Democrat-dominated authorities - its ample fig of immigrants successful the U.S. illegally, its stateless colonisation and its thicket of regulations - and waded into a h2o rights conflict implicit the endangered Delta smelt that has pitted environmentalists against farmers.

The erstwhile president was peculiarly scathing astir amerciable immigration, informing astatine 1 point: "Your children are successful danger. You can't spell to schoolhouse with these people, these radical are from a antithetic planet."

He continued his long-running spat with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom Trump called "New-scum." Trump again threatened Newsom implicit the h2o rights battle, saying that if helium didn't enactment successful favour of farmers, "we're not giving you immoderate of that occurrence wealth that we nonstop you each the clip for each the wood fires that you have."

Supporters waited for hours successful triple-digit heat. Counter-protesters, including the city's mayor, were besides there.

"We are present to accidental that Donald Trump, that the Republicans and their agenda, are not going to intimidate america adjacent though they are successful our backyard," Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez said.

Rep. Raul Ruiz represents Coachella and says he's baffled by Trump's sojourn to his predominantly Democrat and Latino district.

"I deliberation he's present for theatrics due to the fact that we cognize that Trump's economical program would rise costs for the mediate class, devastate our workforce that relies connected immigration," Ruiz said.

Trump's rally besides featured astatine slightest 1 personage Southern California nonmigratory - Emmy-nominated histrion Dennis Quaid. Quaid, who precocious portrayed Ronald Reagan successful the movie "Reagan," called Trump his favourite president of the 21st century.

Some governmental strategists judge Trump's California sojourn was much of a fundraising halt to capitalize connected the state's affluent donors, alternatively than a transportation for votes.

A photograph with the erstwhile president astatine the Coachella rally outgo guests $25,000.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.