Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said last night that he thinks he will easier to beat Democratic candidate Kamala Harris than President Joe Biden, although some polls show she has a small lead in the race for the presidential election on November 5, Reuters reported, cited by BTA.
Former President Trump said this at a rally in Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, a state that looms large in the outcome of the race.
Vice President Harris, for his part, will take a bus tour of Western Pennsylvania, starting in Pittsburgh today, before the start of the Democratic National Convention tomorrow in Chicago.
"I think she will be easier to beat than him,” Trump said, calling Harris "radical" and "lunatic". Trump has sought to portray Biden's running mate as far-left on a number of policies. During the rally, he highlighted her previous call to ban fracking, an industry of great importance to the state. Harris' campaign recently indicated that she would not support the ban.
He also continued to attack Harris personally, although some political analysts say such comments could hurt Trump among moderate voters.
"Did you hear her laugh? It's the laugh of a madman,'' Trump said, adding that he was unhappy with the illustration of Harris on the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine. "I look much better than her," he added.
In a rambling speech, Trump repeated his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud, dismissed the threat of climate change and said his plan to impose blanket tariffs on foreign goods won't work as a tax on US consumers - a claim most economists dispute.
The hall "Mohegan Sun Arena" with a capacity of about 8,000 people, it was almost full when he began to speak. After the first hour, however, the crowd began to thin out. In total, he spoke for more than 100 minutes.
Trump said Harris should have done more to address inflation and other issues since she and Biden took office. If re-elected, he said he would sign an executive order directing cabinet secretaries and agency heads to take action to reduce prices.
Pennsylvania is one of three so-called Rust Belt states, along with Wisconsin and Michigan, that helped propel Trump to an unexpected victory in 2016, according to Reuters. Biden, who grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, won all three states for Democrats in 2020.