Former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris on the economy and immigration at a Georgia rally, capping a three-state blitz Sunday as he looks to solidify his base in battleground states two days ahead of Election Day.
After starting the day off with a stop in Pennsylvania laced with dark rhetoric, the former president also rallied in North Carolina and ended the day repeating his talking points about the economy and immigration in Macon, Georgia, where the crowd was larger and more energized than those at his prior stops. Trump wore a black cap with yellow MAGA letters that cast a dark shadow on his face and obscured his eyes.
Trump again argued Harris would do poorly with Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan because former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is campaigning with her.
“We’ll take care of these tough killers, she wouldn’t do it. Tell you who wouldn’t have the guts to do it? Liz Cheney wouldn’t have the guts to do it. Liz Cheney, she’s a big talker. ‘We’re going to put thousands of soldiers and and they’ll die. They’ll all die, and I’ll be sitting home with my dad,’ who ruined — think of all the people that are dead right now and then they wonder why Kamala is doing so badly with the Arab Muslim population in Michigan,” Trump said, seemingly also attacking former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, who — like his daughter — has endorsed Harris.
At one point, Trump claimed the Biden administration was leading the country toward another Great Depression: “What a time that was, people jumping off buildings, and that’s where we’re headed, because we have leadership that’s incompetent.”
“These are Depression-type numbers, 1929 Depression-type numbers. And I never wanted to be, I always told people, I would have hated to be the president of the United States in 1929 when you had the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover, I would not want to be Herbert Hoover, what a time that was,” Trump said.
While the majority of voters still say they remain displeased with the state of the economy, a Commerce Department report released last week suggested it is robust.
