While the nation’s eyes were on President Joe Biden addressing the nation from the Oval Office last night about his decision to step away from the presidential race, Donald Trump strategically galvanized his campaign in front a crowd of thousands of supporters.
His move?
He’s digging in, preparing to take on presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Last night in front of a raucous crowd at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump pulled no punches when it comes to taking on Harris.
“You know, I was supposed to be nice,” Trump said at the Bojangles Coliseum in his first rally since Biden withdrew from the presidential race.
“They say something happened to me when I got shot. I became nice. And when you’re dealing with these people, they’re very dangerous people. When you’re dealing with them, you can’t be too nice. You really can’t be. So if you don’t mind, I’m not going to be nice. Is that OK?”
During the rally that was broadcast by Newsmax, Trump continued to launch into Harris, saying if she were elected, “she would be the most radical far-left extremist ever to occupy the White House. Times 10. There’s never been a lunatic like this in the White House, and we’ve had some bad ones.
“She is a radical-left lunatic who will destroy our country if she ever gets the chance to get into office,” Trump said. “We’re not going to let that happen. She’s now trying to get rid of her record, but she can’t. She’s going out and saying things that she doesn’t believe. And if she ever got in, she’d destroy this country so fast. So she was the border czar, but she never went to the border, right?
“As border czar, Kamala threw open our borders and allowed 20 million illegal aliens to stampede into our country from all over the world. As vice president, she cast the tie-breaking votes that created the worst inflation in half a century, decimating middle-class families and hurting very badly, as you know, all people in North Carolina. … And when Kamala Harris was sent to Europe to deter Russia? What a joke that was.
Trump continued by saying Harris can’t be trusted because she lied about Biden’s capacity to perform his duties as president.
“If Kamala will lie to you so brazenly about Joe Biden’s mental incapacity, then she will lie to you about anything,” he said. “She can never, ever be trusted. And just like crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris is unfit to lead. She’ll destroy our country in a year.
“A vote for Kamala is a vote for four more years of dishonesty, incompetence, weakness, and failure. Other than that, she’s doing an excellent job.”
Trump has said that he would like to debate Harris “multiple” times. No debates have been scheduled.
Here’s Trump’s complete speech from last night: