Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris

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Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump tried to reset his campaign at a rally in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday as polls show Kamala Harris pulling ahead in key swing states.

But the former president quickly broke away from the prepared speech about economic issues to launch personal attacks on Harris including accusations that her agenda is both communist and fascist, and that she has “the laugh of a crazy person”.

Trump’s written speech before a mostly filled 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre focussed on economic policy, although a part of the audience left before he finished speaking. Some Republican strategists had hoped the former president could regain the initiative by zeroing in on issues on which opinion polls say voters have greater trust in Trump than the Democrats, such as inflation.

Trump attacked Harris as part of the Biden administration for the surge in prices that has hit many Americans hard and described increased household costs as “the Kamala Harris inflation tax”.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/17/trump-pennsylvania-rally

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More tRump word salad from the appearance: “They’ll say he was rambling. I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy, you know, really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day, anytime I hit too hard, they say he was rambling, rambling,”

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1. "They trust me more on inflation? Hold my beer."

[twodogsbarking]

2. It is rambling. Inane rambling.

Followed by more rambling.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

30. It's rambling all the way down

Just like the turtles

[livetohike]

3. Just ramble on Donald. It's working so well for

you that even your die hard supporters can’t take it anymore.

[cstanleytech]

4. Looks like Donald's following in his father's footsteps as his mental decline is accelerating.

[Aristus]

10. Well, of course, he never really had far to go.

There has never been a time in his life when the elevator went all the way to the top floor.

[Butterflylady]

22. Great line.....

Elevator never went all the way to top floor. 😒

[cstanleytech]

24. Well that's not true We all know effort 3-year-old. 😆

[ananda]

5. I guess they were paid to attend but not to stay.

Right

[mopinko]

6. how many more times is the media gonna fall for this okie doke? reset my shiny metal ass.

he cant reset anything. never has, never will.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes he cannot stay on script at all.

His advisors must be pulling out their hair.

[mopinko]

8. like he was gonna 'pivot' once he was in office.

and every few months since then.

[Irish_Dem]

9. What we see is what we get.

Donald always being Donald.

A narcissistic sociopath.

[FakeNoose]

20. A lot of Repukes said that back in 2016

Example ... "Once he gets elected, he'll become presidential." Like there's some magic elixir or something.
What a crock of shit! Nobody says that anymore because they all know it isn't true.

He's a loser and he always has been a loser. It will never change.

[not fooled]

25. red don didn't become presidential, the presidency became trumpified

during red don's reign.

Project 2025 wants to complete the trumpification of the rest of the government.

[yardwork]

19. Shame on them for being his advisors.

Trump is mentally ill. What's their excuse.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Hatred, greed, racism is their motivation.

They are willing to make a mentally ill man president of the US to get what they want.

[mucholderthandirt]

36. Just as with Bush the Lesser, all they need is the figurehead. Everything is controlled by others.

[Irish_Dem]

37. Bush jr was drunk most of the time.

I never saw a picture or video of him sober.
He was the kind of long term alcoholic who can fake it somewhat.

I always assumed Cheney sent Jr a case of Jack Daniels on the regular.
So Cheney could rule the roost.

Yes of course the billionaire minders run the show.

[Zoomie1986]

14. The supine media will keep normalizing him

As much and as many times as their wealthy paymasters tell them to.

They wouldn't be where they are if they hadn't prostituted themselves to the wealth class, long ago.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

31. Complicit Corporate Catamites, all of them

They like him because they're rich and without a moral center.

[riversedge]

27. His advisors are smart enough to know The Donald needs a reset, but Trump has always

been greedy and says what he wants to say.

[Blue Owl]

11. He thinks his diaper deposits are the finest pearls

[GB_RN]

12. Man, I Am Sick To Death Of His Bullshit.

Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent said, “…that her agenda is both communist and fascist.”
That’s a gigantic contradiction, as fascism is a right wing ideology and actual communism is a left wing ideology; not the shit that is China, N. Korea and what the former USSR called communism, as that’s just another dictatorship like fascism, but with the trappings of communism. And the goddamned “news” media fail, every fucking time, to call him out on it and explain the difference. Instead, they let him off the hook, quoting Caligula as if every single word is gospel truth.

[padah513]

13. Another trigger word.

Such thin skin. Call it weird rambling and his head will explode.

[Zoomie1986]

15. Lincoln Project needs to do one their whispering ads

Telling him how everyone's talking about how ugly he is.

[nwduke]

16. " Trump's written speech before a mostly filled 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre"

Wrong! Upper seats were empty and sporadic seating below. Media concentrated on a tight shot in front of Don the Felon! After spewing the same old conspiracy crap, people began leaving! Quit with the misleading commentary!

[FakeNoose]

23. Those are the ones who got paid to sit in the stands

Usually a mixture of black and white folks, also lots of women. People waving signs and clapping.
Meanwhile everyone else in the seats we can't see are getting up and leaving.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

32. I wouldn't do that for $50

He pays attendants from Craigslist. At least if I sell plasma for $50, someone gets the health benefit from my time.

[nwduke]

17. "Trump's written speech before a mostly filled 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre"

Arena was not filled. The upper seats were mostly empty! People began leaving when he started spewing the same old tired stuff!

[mwb970]

18. He even rambles ABOUT rambling.

What a doofus.

[COL Mustard]

26. Is that the rally where he got the State wrong?

He called out North Carolina in front of a Pennsylvania crowd.

Maybe he was just testing them to see if they knew where they were...yeah, that must be it.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

28. "...campaign reset..."?

[PSPS]

29. "a part of the audience left before he finished speaking" -- leaving only the paid craigslist attendees

[DENVERPOPS]

33. He is safe saying communism and fascism

because the bulk of his Trumphumpers can't spell either one, nor can they give a definition of either word if asked........
same with socialism

Their intelligence has been stymied by Fox News and RW shows like Limbaugh, intentionally dumbing them down......

[jvill]

35. Trump can't stay on task for 30 seconds, like a chipmunk on meth. Why isn't media asking about mental state?

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