The United States needs four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House, his deputy and running mate Mike Pence told his compatriots on the battlefield state of Pennsylvania, arguing that the administration has kept its promises in its first term.
“It is a movement of Americans from all walks of life. Here in Pennsylvania, he thinks we could be strong again, ”the vice president said at an election rally in West Mifflin, a Pennsylvania suburb of Pittsburgh.
“Pennsylvania and the United States need four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House. It’s amazing to think about four years ago, ”Pence told an enthusiastic crowd, a day after the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, between incumbent Republican Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
In August, when Pence formally accepted the Republican nomination for vice president for the Nov. 3 election, he said the United States needs four more years of the Trump administration in these challenging times.
“You think we could be prosperous again. You said yes to President Donald Trump in 2016. And I know Pennsylvania is going to say yes to four more years of President Donald Trump, ”Pence said to cheers from the audience as he focused his speech broadly on the administration’s accomplishments. Trump and criticized the policies of his predecessor.
“We achieved a lot,” he said.
“The choice in this election has never been clear. The stakes have never been higher, ”he said. “The choice in this election is whether America remains America,” he said, claiming that a Biden-Harris administration along with the “radical left would lead the country down the path of socialism.”
“Hence the decline of the United States,” he said.
A Biden administration, Pence said, would result in higher taxes on the middle class and job losses in manufacturing.
“In the last three years, Trump cut taxes and created millions of jobs. Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, want to crush America’s energy independence through their $ 2 trillion Green New Deal, “said the Vice President of the United States.
Pence criticized Biden for his comments in the debate on banning fracking and shutting down the oil industry. The campaign played a video of Biden and Harris contradicting their own comments. The video drew the loudest boos from the several hundred Americans who had gathered at a city airport to hear from the vice president.
“Four more years” were the constant cheers of his followers. The president took the stage and brought down Biden, Pence said, stating that “Trump won the debate.” “There is no question about that,” he said.
Amid loud cheers and applause from the audience, Pence said the Trump administration will never allow the United States to become a socialist country, “which Biden and his team are plotting.”
“Do you want a proven job creator or someone who sends jobs abroad?” I ask. “It’s a choice between Trump’s economic recovery and Biden’s depression,” he said.
The crowd of a few hundred, which is much smaller compared to the thousands Trump drew at his election rallies, included women, children and African Americans.
Both Pence and Trump have been campaigning very tough in the battlefield state. A win or loss in Pennsylvania is more likely to decide who will occupy the White House for the next four years. The latest opinion polls show that Biden leads in Pennsylvania by more than 5 percentage points. However, the gap has been narrowing in recent days.
Pence, 61, a former Indiana congressman and governor, has been addressing multiple campaign rallies across the country, particularly in the battlefield states.
The size of the crowd that Pence draws is much smaller than Trump’s, but considerable given the coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing measures in place.
Pence, who led the White House Task Force on Covid-19, told the audience that a vaccine is on the way by the end of the year.
“While Biden is determined to shut down the US, Trump is committed to opening it all up and reviving the country’s economy. We are opening America again. We are opening schools, ”he said.
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