If Donald Trump appeared angry during Tuesday night’s debate, he offered no apologies for it two days later. He said he was furious about what Kamala Harris was doing to the country.
“People said I was angry about the debate, angry,” he told a raucous crowd in Tucson, Arizona.
“I was angry, and yes, I am angry because she let 21 million illegal aliens into our communities. Many of them are criminals.”
The event was billed as an opportunity to address the rising cost-of-living crisis, and Trump unveiled a populist new policy, promising to abolish the overtime tax.
But much of his speech focused on Tuesday’s debate. Trump railed against moderators and said he had no desire to meet with Harris again after his “monumental victory.”
After commemorating the anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday, Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail on Thursday, with a rally in Tucson, Arizona, a must-win state
Harris was declared the winner of the debate in a DailyMail.com poll of viewers. They also said she was the winner of the vibe war, saying the vice president made them “hopeful” while Trump made them “irritated.”
Trump was clearly shocked by her attacks and was prompted to repeat a right-wing online rumor that illegal immigrants were stealing and eating pets.
He was back on the campaign trail on Thursday to get his election campaign back on track in a crucial state.
He did so in typical Trump fashion: he made no apologies for his anger and repeated the claim about migrants, cats and dogs.
He said 911 calls in Springfield, Ohio, showed migrants running away with geese.
“The migrants are running away with the geese from the city. They’ve taken the geese with them,” he said. “You know where the geese are in the park, in the lake, and even running away with their pets
“My dog has been taken.”
He performed at the city’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, much to the dismay of its namesake, who had previously condemned his performance.
Normally, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra plays here. ZZ Top is coming in October. But on Thursday, it was the stage for Trump’s signature outspoken, angry delivery.
JL Partners asked 800 independent voters for their one-word summary of Trump’s debate performance. Angry was one of the most common words, behind strong, confident, arrogant
Trump appeared at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson on Thursday
Trump hits Arizona, California and Nevada in his push west
“I am angry that young American girls are being raped, sodomized and murdered by barbaric criminal aliens,” he said.
“I’m angry about the skyrocketing inflation that’s destroying our middle class, and the American people are angry about that and everything else we’ve had to endure over the last three and a half years.”
Behind him, a diverse mix of supporters, some in cowboy hats … some in suits, held signs. “Latinos for Trump,” one said.
He couldn’t resist referring back to the debate and launched a fierce attack on Harris and the two ABC moderators.
“Kamala Harris showed up with empty rhetoric. Same old lies, platitudes, no plans, no policies, no details, nothing,” he said.
‘The two presenters, David Muir and Linsey Davis, sat there and only corrected me on points where I was right, but they didn’t correct Kamala about Project 25 which I knew nothing about, about the massacre hoax which has been completely debunked, which had to do with the car industry which is dying.
JL Partners surveyed 800 independent viewers immediately after Tuesday’s debate. They said they knew more about Trump’s policy plans than Harris did
People lined up around the convention center, winding around parking lots in temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit to get a seat inside
Both candidates traveled to key states to build tension after Tuesday’s debate.
Harris was in North Carolina, holding rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro, to further bolster her supporters after a strong performance that left Trump off-balance and on the defensive in their first head-to-head meeting.
Her team studied the 90-minute debate and incorporated clips from it into TV commercials.
Meanwhile, Trump was trying to stabilize his campaign, which had been in turmoil since Harris unexpectedly entered the race in July.
He has expanded his staff, which is confident he can capitalize on what they see as Harris’s inability to flesh out her policy agenda and her vague answers on Tuesday.
That suspicion is confirmed by a poll of viewers of the debate (all independent viewers) conducted by JL Partners for DailyMail.com.
Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake was one of the warm-up speakers on Thursday
Trump and Harris clashed for more than 90 minutes in Tuesday’s ABC News debate
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About 50 percent said they wanted to know more about Harris’ plans for the White House, compared to 37 percent for Trump.
Arizona is crucial to Trump’s chances of success. Joe Biden won by fewer than 11,000 votes, a narrow margin that has led to lawsuits and claims of fraud by Trump allies.
Trump had won the election four years earlier by 3.5 percent.
The latest data from the JL Partners/DailyMail.com election model, which crunches decades of data along with the latest polls and forecasts, suggests there is currently a “trump tilt.”
His visit was immediately criticized, with Mexican-American singer Linda Ronstadt condemning him for his “hatred” before he appeared at her eponymous music venue.
“It saddens me to see the former president bring his hate show to Tucson, a city with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful, tolerant spirit. I detest not only his toxic politics, his hatred of women, immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance — although that is there too,” Ronstadt wrote on Facebook, also calling him a rapist.