Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Saturday he believes Democrat Kamala Harris will be easier to beat than President Joe Biden, even as some polls show him leading in the Nov. 5 race. Presidential elections
Trump, the former president, spoke at a rally in Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, a state that is leading heavily on the campaign trail. Vice President Harris will take a bus tour of western Pennsylvania starting in Pittsburgh on Sunday, before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday.
“I believe it would be easy to beat him,” Trump said, calling him “radical” and “crazy.”
Trump has tried to impersonate Harris on several policies. At the rally, he highlighted his previous call for a ban on fracking, a key industry for the state. Harris’ campaign recently indicated that it would not support a ban.
He also continued to attack Harris on personal terms, with some political analysts saying such comments could hurt Trump with moderate voters.
“Did you hear him laugh? That’s the laugh of a madman,” Trump said, taking offense to Harris’s photo on the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine. “I look better than that.”
In a blistering 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 tariffs on foreign goods would tax American consumers. will not work as, a claim that most economists contest.