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Addressing a rally in Muskegon, Michigan, Trump focused on the issues of America’s culture war, telling a large cheering crowd that Democrats wanted to ‘erase American history, purge American values, and destroy the American way of life. ‘
US President Donald Trump gestures during a rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, Wisconsin, on October 17, 2020. Image: AFP
JANESVILLE – President Donald Trump campaigned at a frantic pace Saturday on a tri-state trip that began with a rally in Michigan calling opponent Joe Biden a “criminal” and criticizing his claim that Democrats are anti-American.
Addressing a rally in Muskegon, Michigan, Trump focused on America’s culture war issues and told a large cheering crowd that Democrats wanted to “erase American history, purge American values, and destroy American style. of American life. “
And it intensified its increasingly intense attempt to paint Biden as corrupt, pushing forward the same conspiracy theory that led to his impeachment last year and a murky new report in the New York Post purporting to reveal evidence of corruption by the Biden’s son, Hunter.
“Joe Biden is a corrupt politician and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise,” Trump said to more cheers.
“He is a criminal, he has committed crimes,” he said. “It is a national security risk.”
Trump, who was indicted for allegedly abusing his post in an attempt to find dirt on Biden and later acquitted, had the entire campaign trail to himself just 17 days before the election.
FRANTIC VS LOW KEY
He flew to Wisconsin, a state on the target of a resurgent spread of the coronavirus in the US, where he told his jubilant supporters in Janesville: “I did this for us, not for me, believe me.”
Trump was ending the day in Las Vegas, Nevada, and on Sunday he will hold another rally in Carson City.
“President Trump’s strategy is to work for the vote of the American people,” his spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News.
“That’s why he will be in two states today, he will have two rallies tomorrow, two more in Arizona on Monday, and he goes with everything.”
Biden, who has run a surprisingly low-key campaign but leads a series of polls, stayed home in Delaware with no public events. He was scheduled to campaign in North Carolina on Sunday.
The Republican incumbent, who only got out of the hospital two weeks ago after falling ill with Covid-19, plans to keep up during the final leg of the campaign, with almost daily rallies, in the hope that his staunch base will change. in great quantities.
The enthusiasm was evident on Saturday. The crowd shouted “we love you” and, with Trump’s support, chanted “lock her up” in reference to the Democratic governor of Michigan, the recent target of a right-wing kidnapping plot.
Closing after 90 minutes, Trump briefly stayed on stage to dance to the sounds of Village People’s “YMCA.”
COVID, WHAT COVID?
Strikingly absent from his stump speech is any actual discussion of the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 219,000 Americans, with more than eight million infected, and is spreading again at rates not seen in months.
Polls show that an overwhelming majority do not approve of Trump’s erratic handling of the pandemic. This has gone from pushing record-breaking speed for a vaccine to the president’s constant assertions that the coronavirus poses little risk and his repeated downplaying of the need to wear masks.
Biden has made this record the centerpiece of his campaign, promising to bring what he calls more sober and less politicized leadership to the national crisis.
Biden issued a statement Saturday saying “President Trump is deliberately downplaying the severity of the virus.”
“With just about every lap, he’s panicked and tried to wish it would go away, instead of doing the hard work to control it,” Biden said.
CAN TRUMP RECOVER?
Trump likes to say that his packed rallies are evidence of force not reflected in “bogus” election polls. He also points out that in 2016 few believed he could beat the seemingly solid Hillary Clinton.
But other than attacking the country and hoping his newfound drive to smear Biden will hold, he has little leverage to change the dynamics of a race that for weeks has shown consistent advantages for the Democrat.
One possibility will be the final televised debate between the candidates on Thursday. However, more than 21 million Americans have already cast their votes in an unprecedented early voting, meaning the election is already in the process of being decided.
And while Biden is running a much quieter campaign, there was evidence Saturday of popular energy on the Democratic side as thousands of people protested in Washington and other cities against the swift Republican confirmation of Trump’s latest conservative election for the Supreme Court. , Amy Coney Barrett.
Some Republicans, including Trump ally Sen. Ted Cruz, have warned of a major defeat on Nov. 3.
But Biden’s campaign manager Jennifer O’Malley Dillon said in a Saturday memo published by The New York Times that the race is much closer than many believe.
“This race is much closer than some of the experts we are seeing on Twitter and on television would suggest,” he wrote, the Times reported. “In the key states on the battlefield where this election will be decided, we stand side by side with Donald Trump.”
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