With Election Day closing in, former President Trump took a shocking detour to ultra-blue California to highlight the state’s sky-high inflation, crime and unlawful immigration.
Trump touched down in Coachella Valley on Saturday night to tackle Vice President Kamala Harris on her residence turf. Becoming a member of him on the rally was A-list Hollywood star Dennis Quaid, star of a brand new biopic on former President Ronald Reagan.
Voters within the decidedly blue state got here out in droves, with Trump remarking on the sheer dimension of the crowds as he took the stage at 5:30 p.m. PST.
“We have had a great reception here. Look at this crowd,” Trump mentioned, marveling on the crowd. “This is like record stuff as far as the eye can see.”
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to talk at a marketing campaign rally on the Calhoun Ranch, in Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
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Trump highlighted California’s failed insurance policies, saying that “we gotta make it better.”
“I stand before you today in the heart of the majestic Coachella Valley, to declare that the Republican Party will always put America first and lead us on to victories like you have never seen before,” he mentioned. “Because we’ve become the party of common sense.”
The previous president promised that he’d battle for “hard-working citizens of every race, religion, color and creed.”
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Through the Trump marketing campaign’s announcement that the previous president would make a uncommon go to to California, spokesperson Steven Cheung mentioned that it was to “highlight Harris’ poor record and show that he has the right solutions for every state and every American.”
Trump highlighted Harris’ in addition to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s monitor report within the state, promising to “save it.”
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“The radical left Democrats have destroyed this state, but we are going to save it,” he mentioned. “And we’re going to make it better than ever before.”
“I’ve come here today not only to talk about California, where you have one of the worst governors in the country, Gavin Newsom, but you definitely had somebody here that was horrible – Kamala,” he mentioned. “And now she wants to destroy our country.
“She needs to destroy our nation like she did San Francisco,” he mentioned.
Attendees cheer as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Calhoun Ranch in Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump noted how California has changed, transitioning his speech to a promise of a safe and secure southern border.
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“California’s actually is a paradise misplaced, however we’ll convey it again,” he said. “Don’t fret about it. We’re bringing it again. It will occur quick.
“We’ll stop the murderers from coming in. The drug dealers, everybody coming into California,” he mentioned.
Republican presidential nominee former President Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally on the Calhoun Ranch in Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Picture/Alex Gallardo)
Trump reminisced of what California used to be, saying it was a ‘beacon of what our nation aspired to turn out to be.”
“It had the climate, it had the water,” he said. “The state had the perfect faculties, the most secure communities, and a booming center class, however all that was eradicated by many years of the very insurance policies that Kamala Harris needs to now drive upon America.”
The Republican nominee for president pointed to California’s sky-high cost of living, ongoing crime crisis and continuing illegal immigration crisis.
“Right this moment, California has the best inflation, the best taxes, the best fuel costs, the best price of dwelling, essentially the most laws, the costliest utilities, essentially the most homelessness, essentially the most crime, essentially the most decay, and essentially the most unlawful aliens,” he said.
“Aside from that, I believe you are doing fairly properly, truly,” he quipped.
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While acknowledging the economy is top of mind in California and across the nation, Trump highlighted illegal immigration as a top issue for voters, saying that the U.S. is considered an “occupied nation.”
“However we’re recognized all all through the world now as an occupied nation,” he said. “We obtained folks taking on components of Colorado. We now have folks taking on different states, numerous states.”
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Trump promised to “liberate our nation from criminals” and “rescue California.”
“To everybody right here in California and all throughout our nation, I make this pledge to you. November fifth, 2024 can be liberation day in America,” he said.
“We will liberate our nation from criminals. I’ll rescue California in each city throughout America that is been invaded and conquered, and we’ll put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell in a foreign country,” he mentioned.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Calhoun Ranch in Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump pointed to Eduardo Sarabia, an illegal immigrant, who was recently arrested in Los Angeles after he allegedly viciously raped two women in his windowless Ford Transit van.
“He was charged with sadistically raping two girls at the back of a windowless van that police mentioned was disgustingly outfitted as, quote, a rape dungeon on wheels,” Trump said. “Detective believes this monster had many extra victims.”
Republican presidential nominee former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Calhoun Ranch in Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
Trump also pointed to Victor Hernandez, an illegal migrant from El Salvador, who escaped his country of origin after committing a heinous crime and allegedly murdered Maryland mother, Rachel Morin.
“We had the strongest border within the historical past of our nation. Now now we have the worst border within the historical past of the world,” he mentioned.
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“My message to the American folks could be very easy,” Trump said. “No one who has inflicted the violence and terror that our harass has unleashed on our nation can by no means be allowed to turn out to be the President of the USA once more.”
Trump promised that Harris’ “reign of terror” would end the first day he took office.
“Anybody who orchestrates an invasion of America can not lead America,” he said. “Kamala Harris, her reign of terror ends the day I take workplace.”
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Quaid drew cheers when he requested the group the well-known Reagan query, ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Like Reagan did with opponent Jimmy Carter more than 40 years ago, Trump and his surrogates are using that theme to point out high inflation during his predecessor’s time period in workplace.
With time an especially valuable commodity for the presidential campaigns within the closing stretch of a White Home showdown in a margin-of-error race with Harris, many are questioning why Trump is stopping in blue states.
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The cease in Coachella could profit Trump with Latino voters — who’ve been trending in direction of the GOP in recent times — not solely in southeast California, however extra importantly in neighboring Arizona and Nevada, two of the seven essential battleground states that may seemingly decide if the previous president or Harris wins the 2024 election.
Fox Information’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
