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(The Hill) — Former President Trump campaigned successful the battleground authorities of Pennsylvania connected Saturday and went aft Vice President Harris’s carnal quality arsenic his Republican allies person pushed him to alternatively absorption connected the argumentation differences with his political opponent.
“I americium overmuch amended looking than her,” Trump told supporters astatine a rally successful Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I’m a better-looking idiosyncratic than Kamala.”
The erstwhile president made the comments portion referencing a caller "Time" screen that features Harris.
“Time Magazine doesn’t person a representation of her. They person this unbelievable creator drafting her,” helium said. “They took a batch of pictures that didn’t enactment retired truthful they hired a sketch artist.”
The onslaught enactment from Trump was 1 of galore against Harris and her Democratic allies astatine Saturday’s rally.
“What happened to Biden? I was moving against Biden and present I’m moving against idiosyncratic else,” Trump said. “I said, who americium I moving against, Harris? I said, ‘Who the hellhole is Harris?’”
In a connection pursuing the rally, the Harris run said "another rally, aforesaid aged show."
“Donald Trump can’t merchantability his unsafe Project 2025 docket to rise taxes connected moving families by $3,900, terminate the Affordable Care Act, and rip distant our freedoms, truthful helium resorts to lies, name-calling, and confused rants," said Joseph Costello, a run spokesperson.
Trump jabbed astatine Pennsylvania Democrats including the state’s Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and Sen. Bob Casey (D), who is moving for reelection.
The erstwhile president claimed that the Harris run did not take Shapiro to beryllium her moving mate “because helium is Jewish” and repeated his disapproval of Jewish voters who ballot for Democrats.
Trump besides lashed retired against assorted broadcast quality networks, including ABC News, which is hosting the statesmanlike statement successful September.
The erstwhile president's remarks travel arsenic a fig of Republicans including his erstwhile advisor Kellyanne Conway, person called connected him to debar idiosyncratic insults and absorption connected argumentation successful his run rhetoric.
“The winning look for President Trump is precise plain to see,” Conway told Fox Business past week. “It’s less insults, much insights and that argumentation contrast.”
However, Trump inactive did speech argumentation passim the rally, touching connected immigration, crime, and overseas policy. Trump besides took respective jabs astatine Harris’s economic plan that she debuted connected Friday.
“After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist terms controls,” Trump said, calling it “the Maduro plan” of “the aged Soviet Union.”
Trump went connected to invitation a Venezuelan protagonist connected signifier who recalled the country’s erstwhile President Hugo Chavez coming to power.
The erstwhile president besides criticized Harris implicit her stance connected fracking — an vigor and situation contented precise acquainted to Pennsylvania voters.
“You bash cognize she’s against this full vigor happening that you person going, which is by acold the astir important happening you person from an economical standpoint, a occupation standpoint,” Trump said.
“She’s vowed that she volition prohibition fracking,” helium said. “Pennsylvania is going to ever beryllium fracking due to the fact that we desperately request the vigor and we desperately request the jobs.”
Pennsylvania is acceptable to play a deciding relation successful November’s predetermination with its 19 Electoral College votes up for grabs. Trump narrowly flipped the authorities successful 2016, but past narrowly mislaid it to Biden successful 2020. The latest mean from The Hill and Decision Desk HQ shows Harris starring Trump by 0.8 percent points.
