Donald Trump’s offensive in battleground state: ‘If Biden wins, China wins’
- Trump holds rally in Pennsylvania, arguably the most important state on the electoral map, and unleashes fierce attacks on Biden’s fitness for office
- Biden courts seniors in Florida, looking to deliver a knockout blow in a state Trump needs to win
US President Donald Trump told a Pennsylvania crowd on Tuesday that he’s fighting “Marxists” and “lunatics” while his Democratic challenger Joe Biden accused him in Florida, another key electoral state, of having treated Americans as “expendable” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With three weeks until the November 3 election and badly down in the polls, Trump fired every lurid exaggeration about the Democrats and insult about Biden’s mental state that he has in his arsenal.
He said Biden was “choking like a dog” during their recent televised debate, called him mentally “shot”, and claimed the Democratic front-runner was the pawn of communists.
“He is handing control to the socialists and Marxists and left-wing extremists,” Trump told the large, raucous crowd in Johnstown. “He can’t stand up to the lunatics running his party.”
Thousands of people lined up outside the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport hours before the president’s arrival. Almost all wore masks on the way into the event, but many took them off once reaching their seats, which were arranged without social distancing.
“This election is a simple choice,” Trump the crowd. “If Biden wins, China wins. All these other countries win. We get ripped off by everybody. If we win, you win, Pennsylvania wins, and America wins. Very simple.”