MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) – Declaring it’s time for the upcoming elections, President Donald Trump monday in midwest battlefield states with a public order message to counter the spectacle of former Vice President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention.
In Kamato, Minnesota, Trump intensified his opposing rhetoric to Biden, calling him a “puppet of left-wing extremists looking to erase our borders, our police, indoctrinate our children, slander our heroes, take away our energy.”Crowds of several hundred open-air supporters in an airplane hangar, Trump said a Biden victory would “replace American freedom with left-wing fascism.”
“Fascists.”Some of them, not all, but some of them. But they’re getting closer and closer.We have to win this election.” But the other proud people of Minnesota might not allow that to happen.”
Trump also traveled Monday to Wisconsin, the official host state of the fully virtual Democratic National Convention, to post a week of travel and political occasions aimed at mitigating the same “bounce” in polls that a candidate gets the week of his convention.The president follows public and personal surveys less than 3 months before Election Day.
Earlier in the day, Trump stopped in Minneapolis for an occasion with small business owners whose outlets were broken after violent protests over the shooting of George Floyd in police custody.
“I’m here for you. We will return law and order to your community.We will return it and report it immediately,” Trump told his supporters on the airport runway.he did not venture to the site of the demonstrations or the Floyd Memorial in the city.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said the White House had been interested in Trump arriving at the impromptu Minneapolis memorial at the site of Floyd’s fatal encounter with police on Memorial Day.
“I spent this weekend looking to tell the White House why it was a really bad concept for President Trump to stop and stand at the George Floyd memorial and use it as a backdrop for his crusade and ignite the pain and anguish we felt in Minnesota,” the intern on a virtual breakfast for the state’s delegation to the DNC said Monday.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows questioned Walz’s statement: “Governor Walz never touched me, neither the president nor the campaign, so perhaps misrepresents,” Meadows told The Associated Press.our tactile information.”
On the Minneapolis track, Trump addressed about 150 supporters, part of them dressed in a mask, who chanted “Four more years!”Trump told them that Democrats would withdraw the constitutional amendment to carry guns, Biden said he would work to enact common-sense gun reforms.
Trump also criticized Biden for supporting an expansion in refugee asylum admissions, adding what the president called “terrorist hot spots,” an obvious reference to Minnesota’s Somali refugee network.
“I’m going to be so politically correct,” Trump said, before crediting himself with his ban on certain Muslim-majority countries, saying, “We need other people who love our country to come to our country.”
In Wisconsin, which Trump won by less than 1 point in 2016, the president said he now sees more “spirit.”
“You see, it’s less difficult somehow. Now the virus has made things a little more difficult, a lot more difficult, because suddenly anything that no one would have imagined happened,” Trump said in Oshkosh at some point.another time in an airport hangar. But we control it.
As Trump attacked Biden, his plans for his own conference next week began to materialize after the coronavirus eliminated head-to-head demonstrations in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida.Trump is about to settle for the Republican nomination for white house, with the Republican National Committee requesting a permit to launch fireworks from the National Mall to commemorate the occasion.A spokesman said the application is pending.
Marking his toughest political week since the coronavirus ended his crusader schedule and jeopardized his chances of re-election, Trump harshly criticized Biden’s economic policies in the upper Midwest battlefield states.
On Tuesday, Trump will face Biden for his immigration policy on a stopover in Yuma, Arizona, and is also about to travel to Biden’s home state, Pennsylvania, Thursday before the Democrat’s acceptance speech.
Trump’s competitive momentum comes when his path to re-election has shrunk since he hit the coronavirus, and he was forced to play defense in the states that led him to re-election four years ago.Minnesota, noticing as a Republican recovery opportunity a year ago, is now out of reach, Republicans say.
Wisconsin, a state that voted for Democratic presidents for decades until Trump’s victory in 2016, has one of the toughest battlefields of 2020.Vice President Mike Pence plans to make a stopover on the southern component of the state on Wednesday.Demographics are more favorable than Michigan, which Trump also won four years ago, but it increasingly feels like a Democratic takeover.
Trump’s crusade took advantage of Biden’s resolution, due to the coronavirus, not Milwaukee for the convention, accusing the Democrat of “effectively abandoning” Wisconsin.The Republican Party is sending replacements to the state this week in a show of strength, adding Pence and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel.
Democrats devote resources to television ads and field organization in Biden state, and California Sen. Kamala Harris, their new vice presidential candidate, are about to deliver their speeches at the conference this week from the state of Delaware, Biden’s home, driving the need away.to fly.
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Associated Press editors Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis and Deb Riechmann, Darlene Superville and Jill Colvin in Washington contributed to the report.