JD Vance accused Kamala Harris of flip-flopping on a series of major issues, such as fracking, Medicare for undocumented immigrants, private health insurance, and defunding the police.
“Kamala, if you support fracking, if you support the police, if you support lower prices, and you want to close down the southern border, you’re welcome to endorse Donald J Trump,” Vance said. “All of us have done it, and you’re welcome to join the team.”
JD Vance claims that Harris played a role in worsening the economy by exacerbating inflation.
He linked the country’s economic woes to immigration, blaming Harris for what he describes as an “invasion” amid a lack of border control.
Vance claimed that the presence of immigrants in the US is contributing to rising housing costs.
He went on to make anti-immigrant remarks.
JD Vance quickly touched a soft spot for the state of Pennsylvania: Natural gas.
Vice President Kamala Harris says she doesn’t oppose fracking, despite prior assertions stating otherwise, but Republicans are still wielding her previous position to win over voters.
“When Donald Trump is president, we are going to drill, baby, drill and bring back the great American energy economy,” Vance said during his speech. “She is the candidate of not buying oil and gas from Americans and Pennsylvanians. Kamala Harris wants us to buy energy from every tin pot dictator all over the world.”
JD Vance attacked Kamala Harris, going back to her first solo interview on Wednesday, by saying she dodges questions on the economy by talking about her middle-class background and her former stint at McDonald’s.
“The problem with Kamala Harris is that she’s got no substance,” he said. “The problem with Kamala Harris is that she’s got no plan. And the problem with Kamala Harris is that she has been the vice-president for three-and-a-half years and has failed this country.’”
Senator JD Vance took the stage in Pennsylvania.
“We have got a hell of a crowd here in the state of Pennsylvania,” he said at the start of his speech. “We’re gonna turn Pennsylvania red, send Kamala Harris back in and send Donald Trump back to the White House.”
Senator JD Vance is expected to deliver a speech in Newton, Pennsylvania, in a few minutes.
The event at the Newtown Sports and Event Center comes as polls show a neck-and-neck race for president in battleground Pennsylvania.
We’ll be covering the Republican vice-presidential pick’s remarks.
Donald Trump wrapped up his speech in Wisconsin just before 5pm ET.
His remarks mostly revolved around his proposed border policies and an anti-immigrant framing of the country.
The mother of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old Maryland mother of five who was killed last year, took the stage briefly in Prairie du Chien.
After Rachel’s death, a native of El Salvador was arrested. Trump has used this case to support his remarks against immigrants from Central America living in the US.
“I do want to say vote for Trump, though, because I really believe that he’s going to close our borders,” said Patty Morin, Rachel’s mother.
In his speech, Donald Trump shifted briefly from immigration to the economy.
“Your towns, your cities, your country, is being destroyed,” Trump said. “This is bigger than inflation, which is killing you all, caused by Biden and Harris with their stupid energy policy.”
He shifted again to making anti-immigrant remarks.
“The only things that don’t get obsolete are the wheel and the wall,” he said about the barrier he started to build on the border during his presidency, which increased migrant deaths and devastating injuries.
Donald Trump referred to Kamala Harris’s immigrant-focused speech last night in Arizona as “BS”.
Fox News broadcasted her remarks, and Trump said “they shouldn’t be allowed to put it on”.
“Everything she said is a lie,” the former president said.
A video intending to attack Kamala Harris was shown in the middle of Donald Trump’s remarks.
The video was a compilation of Harris’s comments about immigration policy.
“She is a disaster, and she’s not going to ever do anything for the border,” he said after the video. “She’s incompetent and a bad person.”
“She’s a Marxist,” he added.
Donald Trump struggled to pronounce “Prairie du Chien”, the name of the town where he’s delivering his remarks.
“You could have given me a little easier name than that, but I think we got it right,” Trump said.
He continued to make anti-immigrant and racist comments half an hour into his speech.
Donald Trump wrongfully claimed that immigrants in the US are violent criminals, referring to them as “stone-cold killers”.
“There’s no greater act of disloyalty than to extinguish the sovereignty of your own nation right through your border, no matter what lies she tells,” Trump said.
“Kamala Harris can never be forgiven for her erasing our border, and she must never be allowed to become president of the United States and Wisconsin,” he added.
Donald Trump said Kamala Harris’s border policies should disqualify her from ever becoming president and urged voters in Wisconsin not to support her.
“Kamala is mentally impaired,” Trump said. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way.”
Donald Trump claims that more than 40,000 people were outside, unable to get into the building because the room was at capacity.
He then turned to criticize Kamala Harris for her role in border policies, claiming that her actions have led to widespread chaos, suffering, and a lack of national security.
“I watched this show that she put on, four years of the most incompetent border anywhere in the world, in history,” Trump said.
Donald Trump has taken the stage, starting his speech more than an hour after his scheduled start time in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin.
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
