Trump makes further personal attacks on Harris at Wisconsin rally

Former President Donald Trump ran through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other topics on Saturday during an event aimed at tying his Democratic opponent to illegal border crossings.

One day after Harris talked about immigration At the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump spoke to a crowd in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, about immigration. He accused Harris of committing crimes against migrants after they entered the U.S. illegally and claimed she was responsible for “erasing our border.”

“I will rid Wisconsin of the mass migrant invasion,” he said. “We will liberate the country.”

The Republican candidate also escalated his personal attacks against Harris, calling her “mentally impaired” and a “disaster.”

“Joe Biden has been mentally impaired,” Trump said. “Kamala was born this way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed something like this to happen in our country. Everyone would know that.”

The personal attacks have been something of a trend for Trump since Harris entered the race. Trump in July questioned incorrectly Harris’ racial identity during a panel with the National Association of Black Journalists.

“I didn’t know she was black until she happened to be black a few years ago and now she wants to be known as black,” Trump said at the time. “So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?”

On request in one interview When he told CBS News last month that he believed the personal attacks were hurting him with voters, he replied: “No, I don’t think so.”

Trump, meanwhile, is hoping that frustration over illegal immigration will translate into votes in Wisconsin and other key swing states. The Republican candidate has denounced people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as “poisoning the blood of the country” and vowed to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history if elected. And polls show that Americans believe Trump would do a better job handling immigration than Harris.

Trump moved from topic to topic so quickly that it was sometimes difficult to keep track of what he meant. He talked about it two assassination attempts against him and blamed U.S. intelligence for his inability to hold a large outdoor rally instead of a smaller indoor event. But he also spoke out about climate change, about Harris’ father, about how his beach body was better than President Biden’s, and about a fly that buzzed near him.

“I wonder where the fly came from,” he said. “Two years ago I wouldn’t have had a fly up here. You are changing rapidly. But we can’t take it any longer. We can’t take it any longer.”

Trump repeatedly mentioned Harris’ Friday event in Douglas, Arizona, where she announced a push Further restrict asylum applications beyond Biden’s executive order announced earlier this year. Harris condemned Trump’s handling of the border while the president rejected a bipartisan border package earlier this year, saying Trump “prefers to address a problem rather than solve a problem.”

“I had to sit there and listen,” Trump said last night, drawing cheers. “And who does it? Fox News. They should not be allowed to state it. These are all lies. Everything she says is lies.”

Trump pretended not to understand what Harris meant when she said he was responsible for taking children away from their parents. Under his administration, border officials separated children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. A policy that was condemned worldwide as inhumane and that Trump himself ended under pressure from his own party.

At a rally in San Francisco, Harris told his supporters that there are “two very different visions for our nation” and that voters see this “every day on the campaign trail.”

“Donald Trump is the same old tired show,” she said. “The same tired playbook we’ve been hearing for years.”

She said Trump was “a very dubious man.”

“However, the consequences of putting him back in the White House are extremely serious,” she said.

The Harris campaign on Saturday Trump challenged again for a second debate, this time in the form of a football-themed TV spot. Following his rally in Wisconsin, Trump traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to attend the Alabama-Georgia football game Saturday night, and the Harris campaign debuted the commercial during the game.

“Champions know that it works anytime and anywhere, but losers whine and complain,” said the ad’s narrator.