Former President Donald Trump delivered a dark speech Tuesday morning, saying Vice President Kamala Harris‘s leadership would be a catastrophe if she were elected the nation’s next president.
Trump claimed Harris’s economic and immigration policies have “caused such harm and such pain” and “untold misery through her destruction of our economy” one week before the election. He also reiterated the nation would continue to decline under a Harris administration.
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“She’s running on a campaign of demoralization and, really, a campaign of destruction. But really, perhaps more than anything else, it’s a campaign of hate,” Trump declared at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
“She wants to raise taxes for the typical family by $3,000 a year. She’s got no empathy for the hardworking Americans whose dreams she’s killed,” Trump said Tuesday while speaking on economic matters.
He also claimed Harris was “perhaps even trying to destroy our country” before announcing a new policy to deter migrant crime.
“So today, I’m announcing that for the first time under my administration, we will be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels,” Trump said. “And we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime.”
The former president also brought up three supporters who he claimed were harmed by Harris’s leadership as he slammed the migrant crisis at the southern border, inflation, and the botched American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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“I just wanted to say that Homeland Security did not do their job. Health and Human Services did not do their job. The Biden-Harris administration did not do their job,” said Tammy Nobles, whose daughter Kayla Hamilton was raped and murdered, allegedly by MS-13 gang member Walter Javier Martinez.
Trump also played a video clip of Alexis Nungaray, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed by two men from Venezuela who entered the nation illegally.
Trump’s campaign has faced blowback from the Puerto Rican community since a comedian made off-color jokes about the island before Trump spoke at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. However, Trump did not reference the moment during his prepared remarks, but he did brag about the “breathtaking” and “beautiful” crowd size at the event. “An absolute love fest,” he said.
In the final seven days before Nov. 5, Harris and Trump remain in a coin-flip election as they battle over the seven battleground states that will determine the presidency.
Harris has relied on Democratic surrogates such as former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, who Trump trashed as “nasty.” The former first lady will stump for Harris in Georgia on Tuesday evening.
Trump’s speech comes on the same day Harris is set to deliver a closing campaign speech at the Ellipse in Washington, the same place Trump held his “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
The former president, meanwhile, is headed to Pennsylvania, where he will rally supporters after declaring, “I haven’t taken a day off, and I won’t be taking one off.”
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The Harris campaign has trolled Trump recently as “old” and “exhaustive” after the former president canceled a few interviews in October. The vice president claimed in mid-October that Trump’s alleged exhaustion “raises real questions about whether you are fit for the toughest job in the world.”
Harris’s social media accounts reiterated those attacks Tuesday after Trump declined to take questions. “A very tired and low energy Trump ends his ‘press conference’ by refusing to take a single question,” KamalaHQ tweeted.