Washington:
Kamala Harris went after her US presidential election rival Donald Trump’s psychological state and health for workplace Tuesday after the 78-year-old Republican’s televised city corridor veered right into a surreal, impromptu music session.
Three weeks forward of the US election, Harris’s marketing campaign has begun to focus aggressively on Trump’s well being and psychological stability, and was fast to weigh in, saying the ex-president appeared “misplaced, confused, and frozen on stage.”
For about half an hour, Monday’s occasion in Oaks close to Philadelphia was commonplace fare forward of the November 5 election, as Trump took pleasant questions from supporters on the financial system.
However a pause for 2 medical emergencies within the crowd was a weird 39 minutes of music and dancing as Trump deserted the dialogue of the election to placed on his favourite hits, swaying awkwardly on stage.
“Who the hell needs to listen to questions, proper?” he mentioned, bringing the Q&A piece to an abrupt finish and telling his individuals to crank up the quantity.
Trump has made a quick, jerky dance his signature on the finish of rallies for years, almost at all times to his exit tune — the Village Individuals’s 1978 disco anthem “YMCA.”
On Monday, nonetheless, he stayed on stage for 9 songs, starting from opera to Weapons N’ Roses and Elvis, with the ex-president alternating his dance strikes with standing in place and staring into the group.
“Hope he is okay,” Harris opined dryly on X.
Undeterred, Trump was bopping to the Village Individuals once more Tuesday at a rally in Atlanta, the place he turned up 90 minutes late and did not point out the earlier night time’s occasions or the criticism.
Delivering his ordinary stump speech specializing in unlawful immigration, Trump pushed his now-customary falsehoods and exaggerations about migrant crime in Colorado and Ohio and referred to the nation as “occupied” by international criminals.
But when he was attempting to attract a line below Monday’s strangeness, he did not succeed.
Lifeless warmth
Trump known as the 2 world wars “lovely” and claimed to have invented the phrase “caravan.” Explaining how he was going to make America nice once more, he lurched into an apart about his rich associates, beachwear and President Joe Biden.
“I’ve lots of wealthy associates. They go right here. They go there. They’re boring as hell,” he started, apropos of nothing specifically. “No person cares. They placed on their bathing go well with. They do not look quite a bit higher than Biden.”
Harris and Trump are locked in a useless warmth, in response to polls, and the election is ready to be determined by seven swing states the place the margins may come down to a couple thousand votes every.
The Republican is the oldest individual ever to be nominated for a presidential bid, after Biden dropped out of the race following a disastrous debate that sparked fears about his personal age.
Trump has not launched a current complete report on his state of well being, prompting fierce criticism from Harris, 59, who has more and more been homing in on Trump’s age and bodily and psychological situation.
It was the subject of her closing argument as she sat down with in style radio host Charlamagne tha God in an effort to spice up her messaging to Black male voters — part of the citizens the place Trump has made good points.
After setting out her insurance policies for bettering the lives of African American males, she turned to Trump’s rallies and repeated a declare that riled him throughout their September debate — that bored supporters have been leaving his rallies early.
“This man is weak and he’s unfit,” Harris mentioned.
Trump had begun the day with a much less freewheeling tone at an Financial Membership of Chicago occasion, the place he mentioned he was for slapping “obnoxious” tariffs on buying and selling companions like Mexico in order that firms transfer factories to the US.
“To me, essentially the most lovely phrase within the dictionary is tariff,” Trump mentioned.
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