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The former president said if elected, on the first day of his presidency, he would seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into the
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Former US president Donald Trump on Saturday returned to
Butler, a city in Pennsylvania where he narrowly escaped an assassination bid 12 weeks ago, and addressed thousands of his supporters in
this key battleground state, urging them to elect him as the next president of the United States.
Joined by high-profile figures like
Tesla owner Elon Musk and his running mate, Senator J D Vance, Trump (78) made a passionate plea to "defeat" Vice President Kamala Harris,
the Democratic candidate in the November 5 presidential poll.Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp
"We must stop her
country-destroying regime, radical-left agenda once and for all
So you must get out and you must vote," Trump said in Pennsylvania, which in this election cycle has emerged as a must-win situation for
"She imposed a natural gas export ban on Pennsylvania, which is killing your energy workers and your pricing," he said.
"Kamala Harris is
She is a woman that is not respected in Congress
She was laughed at Congress
Nobody thought she could win
Whether you like him or not, I am not a particularly big fan
We had a debate, and the debate ended
And all of a sudden, they come to him, and they say, we want you out
You are not going to win the election
And he said, 'I do not want to get out'," Trump said.
"He (Biden) got 14 million (1.4 crore) votes
If you believe in democracy or a system, he got 14 million votes
And she (Harris) got none
She was the first one out, 22 candidates, and she never made it to Iowa
She quit before Iowa, and now she is running
But, you know, we spent USD 150 million beating Biden, and as soon as he was down and out for the count, they said, let us take him out
We will give somebody else to run
Never happened before," he said.
"She is a person that rated even worse in every statistic than any other senator
She was rated at the bottom of the US Senate
She has destroyed everything she touched," Trump said.
The former president said if elected, on the first day of his presidency, he would
seal the border and stop the migrant invasion into the country
"We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States," he said, adding that 2024 is the most important
election in the history of the country.
"Here are the facts
My opponent, Kamala Harris, is the most incompetent and far-left nominee ever to run for president
She is much further left than crazy Bernie Sanders
She wants to open the borders
She took the most secure border in US history and turned it into the worst border in the history of the world...
She let in 21 million (2.1 crore) illegal aliens from all over the world, from prisons and jails and mental institutions and insane asylums
And they are terrorists at record levels, at levels we have never seen before," he alleged.
In his brief speech, Musk said this is a
must-win situation for the country.
"President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution
He must win to preserve democracy in America
This is a must-win situation
So I have one ask for everyone in the audience, everyone who watches this video, everyone in the livestream
This one request is very important
And get everyone you know and everyone you do not know, drag them to register to vote...
Then make sure they actually do vote
If they do not, this will be the last election
That is my prediction," he said.
Musk said the true test of someone's character is how they behave under fire
"We had one president who could not climb a flight of stairs
Another who was fist pumping after getting shot
Blood coming down the face
America is the home of the brave
There is no truer test than courage under fire
So who do you want representing America?" he asked the audience.
"This election, I think it is the most important election of our lifetime
This is no ordinary election
The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech
They want to take away your right to bear arms
They want to take away your right to vote effectively
You have got 14 states now that do not require voter ID
California, where I used to live, just passed a law banning voter ID for voting
I still cannot believe that is real
How are you supposed to have a proper election if there is no ID?" he asked.
Vance said Trump took a bullet for democracy.
"A Democrat
senator called Donald Trump an existential threat to our democracy
Kamala Harris said he was attacking the foundations of our democracy
I think you all will join me in saying to Kamala Harris, how dare you talk about threats to democracy? Donald Trump took a bullet for
What the hell have you done?" Vance said.
"The truth is that Kamala Harris and her allies, they attack Donald Trump in order to silence
They have declared war explicitly on the First Amendment to the US Constitution
Kamala Harris proudly says she wants to censor the internet
But we all know that censorship is only the first step
Just look at everything they have done to President Trump
First, they tried to silence him
When that did not work, they tried to bankrupt him
When that did not work, they tried to jail him," he said.
"With all the hatred they have spewed at President Trump, it was only a matter
of time before somebody tried to kill him," Vance said.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business
Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Oct 06 2024 | 7:20 AMIST
