Opening with a stark warning about a potential “Kamala crash” and a 1929-like Great Depression, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump labeled Democrats as “a threat to democracy” and an existential danger to the American dream. He also dropped a new slogan, vowing to “make America affordable again.”
“Does anyone here feel richer under Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe [Biden]?” Trump asked his Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, on Saturday. “Is anything less expensive under Kamala Harris or Crooked Joe? No, no, no, it’s been it’s been devastating. Inflation has been devastating under this group of people that have no idea what the hell they’re doing. Are you better off with Kamala and Biden than you were under President Donald J. Trump? I don’t think so.”
Building on his signature “Make America Great Again” slogan, Trump promised to dismantle what he describes as the economically damaging policies of the Biden administration, which he blames on Harris’s endorsement. “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again,” Trump said. “We’re going to make it affordable again. Under Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe Biden, the American dream was dead. And it is dead. It’s dead as a doornail. They’ll never bring it back unless we win. If we win, we’re going to have the American dream alive — all for your beautiful children, your grandchildren.”
Harris’ left-wing policies must be rejected by American voters this fall, Trump went on. “Think of this: 80 days from now we are going to defeat a communist known as Kamala Harris,” he told the raucous rally crowd. “She’s a communist — most radical left person ever to run for office. This is not what this country needs. We’ve had enough of them.
“We’re going to win back the White House, and we’re going to take back our country,” Trump continued. “Kamala Harris is a super left liberal who ruined San Francisco, ruined California, and delivered a badly broken economy, a badly broken border — which gave us a dangerous world of chaos, death, and destruction.”
The election campaign kicks off well before November, with early voting beginning in some states as early as September. Trump has advocated for starting the debates on September 4, ahead of the voting, but Harris has opposed this proposal, sticking instead to a September 10 debate on ABC in Philadelphia. “I look forward to debating her, by the way,” Trump said, railing on Biden’s ouster after his widely panned debate. “She’ll be easier.”
Sen. J.D. Vance, whom Trump last month chose to be his 2024 running mate, has made a big, bold prediction heading into the final months before Election Day. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Vance said he intends to help the former president win historically “blue” states again. Regarding the key battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—traditionally known as the Democrats’ ‘blue wall’— Vance is optimistic that they will become the “red wall” in November.
“We’re going to make sure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan go red,”Trump’s 2024 running mate emphasized in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital on the campaign trail in southwestern Michigan this past week.
For nearly 25 years, Democrats consistently won all three working-class states—Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—in presidential elections until Trump narrowly carried them in his 2016 victory. In 2020, President Biden regained all three states with narrow margins, defeating Trump. These states remain highly competitive as Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump vie for them in the 2024 presidential election.
“We’re going to make sure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan go red. People are sick of green energy scams that ship our manufacturing jobs to China instead of keeping them right here at home in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I think we have a great pro-manufacturing, pro-American worker message,” he emphasized. Vance said that his pitch to working-class voters is a “core message that Donald Trump and I have in this campaign and this is a good place for people to hear it.”