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US President Donald Trump made a direct appeal to suburban women during a campaign rally on Pennsylvania’s critical battlefield on Tuesday (NZT Wednesday) as he sought to use his Supreme Court nomination to reset the trajectory of the race.
“Do me a favor, suburban women, would you please?” Trump said in Johnstown, a Republican stronghold where Trump hopes to increase turnout in the Nov.3 election. “I saved your fucking neighborhood, okay?”
Trump almost immediately began criticizing Joe Biden, saying his Democratic opponent was “shot” and “crushed” the state. Trump, who four years ago made China’s trade and job losses in Pennsylvania’s once robust manufacturing sector big problems, was eager to broach the same topic while speaking to the crowd.
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“I saved your fucking neighborhood!” stated the president at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The president, who spoke for just over an hour, also spent considerable time promoting Judge Amy Coney Barrett, noting that he had seen her confirmation hearing in the Senate on Tuesday.
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“Amy has made quite an impression,” Trump told the crowd. “She will be a great justice.”
The rally comes as polls show Biden with a single-digit lead in Pennsylvania, which Trump narrowly won in 2016, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to lead the key state since George HW Bush in 1988. A A key demographic in the polls has been suburban women, which is why Trump has crafted a message focused primarily on law and order.
The event comes down the stretch as Trump is running out of time to regain control of the race.
Just over a week after leaving the hospital, Trump is increasing his campaign schedule and is now scheduled to hold rallies in Iowa, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida this week, following visits to Florida and Pennsylvania on Monday and Tuesday. .
Trump, who threw masks at the crowd when he took the stage but was not wearing a mask, at one point asked the crowd how many of them had recovered from Covid-19. There was some applause.
“Lots of people,” replied the president.
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A crowd of 3,000 Trump supporters gathered in an airport hangar in Sanford, Orlando, to hear the US commander-in-chief say that he had not only defeated the coronavirus, but that he had gotten stronger.
Dozens of Trump supporters lined up at the airport gates hours before they opened. The president’s visit came just weeks after his son, Donald Trump Jr., held an afternoon rally in Johnstown.
James Haverly, 32, was among the early risers to cheer when a boy joined the line dressed as a mini-Trump, in a blonde wig.
“He’s a kid who knows a great man when he sees him,” Haverly said. “He wants America to stay great.”
Haverly added that he always votes against “the liberal agenda.” He called Trump the Republican role model at this time, and downplayed concerns of being in a crowd in the midst of a pandemic.
“I was not going to let something as small as COVID-19 prevent me from seeing Trump,” he said.
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First lady Melania Trump arrives before the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Across the street, several truck drivers waved “Biden 2020” signs at the waiting rally attendees.
Chad Walters, 25, said he noticed many Trump supporters lined up without covering their faces. He wondered if the event would be a breeding ground for the virus.
“This jerk just got out of the hospital after contracting this virus,” Walters said. “You think he would take it seriously, but instead he packages his events without thinking of people first.”
Trump spoke for just over an hour during the Florida rally, showing no apparent signs of illness.
Biden campaigned in Johnstown on September 30, the last stop on a train tour that began in Ohio. Speaking to supporters at a drive-in at the time, Biden delivered a withering attack on Trump’s handling of the pandemic, recalling earlier statements by the president that it would “miraculously” disappear.
In a speech in Miramar, Florida, Biden described Trump as a failed leader on issues ranging from COVID to the economy.
“His reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis is inconceivable, and the longer Donald Trump is president, the more reckless he becomes,” Biden said, according to a prepared text of his speech.
The former vice president noted Cambria County’s unemployment rate in a statement Tuesday, set at 10.5% in August by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and criticized Trump for failing to “protect Pennsylvanians from economic shocks. and health of the COVID-19 pandemic “. . “
Cambria County, about an 80-minute drive east of Pittsburgh, voted heavily for Trump in 2016 and is one of the places Republicans hope it will turn out great for the president to offset potential losses in other parts of the state that are Democratic. reliably.
– USA Today
