Donald Trump on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time) held his first outdoor crusade since an assassination attempt, hurling insults at his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris from bulletproof glass at a rally in the state of North Carolina. battlefield.
Trump, 78, speaking in front of antique fighter jets at an aviation museum, called Harris “the greatest radical leftist” ever to run for the White House and claimed that millions of jobs would “disappear overnight. ” tomorrow” if he won in November.
“Your savings will be completely wiped out,” the Republican nominee told the crowd, one of the many doomsday scenarios he painted in his speech.
“Our adversaries around the world knew not to take America lightly when I was their commander in chief,” Trump said. “If Comrade Kamala wins in November, World War III is practically guaranteed. »
While Harris has drawn enthusiastic crowds since replacing Joe Biden as Democratic leader, the Asheboro meeting is an opportunity for Trump to regain his long-standing dominance by staging impressive rallies.
It was his first major outdoor occasion since he was lightly wounded in an assassination attempt at an open site in Butler, Pennsylvania, a month ago.
The attack left one of the demonstrators dead before the 20-year-old gunman was killed by a secret service sniper.
The Secret Service says Trump sticks to indoor locations that can be more easily controlled, such as sports stadiums. Since then, he has hosted a dozen indoor events.
The Secret Service comments publicly on security operations and responded to requests for comment on preparations Wednesday.
A bulletproof screen around the podium where Trump and his vice president, J. D. Vance, addressed the crowd in Asheboro.
At one point during his speech, Trump left the stage and entered the crowd to check on an attendee who was suffering a medical issue.
Crowds are an integral component of Trump’s political brand, and the right-wing billionaire presents himself as an outsider and a type of the people.
Even as president, he maintained a normal schedule of election-style rallies, filling sports stadiums with at least 10,000 people.
He had counted on such shows of force as a key weapon in his plan to make Biden, 81, whose public occasions were sometimes low-key and small-scale, appear ineffective.
However, Trump’s strategy was turned upside down on July 21, when Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed his 59-year-old vice president as the Democratic Party’s long-term nominee.
The rapid Democratic explosion for Harris appears to have stunned the Trump campaign.
Nowhere is the change in momentum more visual than in Harris’s ability to fill the arenas.
It fills the rooms with more than 10,000 people. On Tuesday night, her supporters packed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago while she held her own massive rally in Milwaukee.
In a clear attack on Trump, his Milwaukee event was held in the same stadium that Republicans used for their conference in July.
North Carolina is one of the few swing states that are expected to know the final results of the Nov. 5 election.
EE. UU. no presidential elections are conducted through a general national vote, but through the states, with each state valuing a varying number of votes in the Electoral College. The winning candidate will have to obtain a majority of the electoral college.
Most states lean solidly Republican or solidly Democratic, and only about seven are considered true sweepstakes where the race takes hold and where applicants devote the most of their time and money to the campaign.