On Saturday, Donald Trump continued to use the racially charged language that has been the driving force behind his historic campaign to win back the US presidency. He dubbed Democrat Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” and said that illegal immigrants are out to sever the throats of regular Americans in their own homes.
After Harris toured the US-Mexico border on Friday and pledged to take stronger action to limit asylum applications and unauthorized migrant crossings, Trump was attempting to retaliate.
As she faces off against Trump on November 5th, the Democratic vice president’s position on this issue is among her weakest in polls.
Trump dismissed Harris’s speech at the border, swearing and telling supporters in the small town of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, that President Joe Biden and Harris are responsible for an “invasion” of violent criminals.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has been at the core of Trump’s appeal in economically depressed, majority-white parts of the country ever since his 2016 presidential victory, but the rhetoric is turning ever more extreme as election day nears.
The 78-year-old businessman — the first major presidential candidate in US history to be a convicted felon and subject of multiple ongoing court cases — said former California prosecutor Harris, 59, is “dumb.”
“Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way.And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,” he said.
Harris, meanwhile, spent Saturday at a fundraiser in San Francisco, California, where she said Trump was using “the same tired playbook we’ve heard for years.”
“This election is about two very different visions for our nation and we see that contrast on the campaign trail,” she said.
Trump spoke in Wisconsin while flanked on stage by large mugshots of migrants accused of crimes, painting a hellish picture of an America under violent assault — despite a plunge this year in illegal border crossings and what the FBI says is a steep decline in crime overall, particularly murder.
“They will walk into your kitchen, they’ll cut your throat,” Trump said of illegal immigrants.
“Small towns in America are terrified of migrants coming in and, even when they haven’t arrived, they’re terrified,” he said. They will “rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill the people of the United States of America.”
He continued by calling the illegal immigrants “animals,” who will replace minority and union members in the workforce.
Trump shouted and called Harris “a liar” during the nationally televised speech on Friday, seemingly offended by her attempt to deliver a harsh message about the border with Mexico.
He was upset that Harris’s address had been carried by Fox News, the conservative outlet that has given him a devoted platform during his time in the White House.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to put it on,” he said.
Evidently, Trump was aware that his speech was unlike what Americans have been used to in presidential campaigns over the years.
He paused at one point to say: “Isn’t this a wonderful and inspiring speech? I’ve got people sitting in the front row — they’re going ‘oh my God.'”
“This is a dark, this is a dark speech,” he said.
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