U.S. Election: Trump Rejects Polls Showing Gains for Kamala Harris

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denounced opinion polls showing momentum for his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, as he wrapped up his campaign rally.

Trump, at his first of three rallies on Sunday, frequently abandoned his teleprompter with off-the-cuff remarks. 

He called Democrats a “demonic party,” ridiculed Democratic President Joe Biden and talked about the high price of apples.

Trump, who survived an assassination attempt in July when a gunman’s bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday complained to supporters about gaps in the bulletproof glass surrounding him as he spoke and mused that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to get him.

“To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I don’t mind that so much,” said Trump, who has long criticized the media and sought to rile public sentiment against them.

Later, Trump addressed crowds in Kinston, North Carolina, and Macon, Georgia, where he focused on last week’s jobs report, highlighting that the U.S. economy added only 12,000 jobs in the past month.

He told a large crowd gathered in an amphitheater that the report showed that the United States was a “nation in decline” and he warned darkly without evidence of a potentially looming repeat of the 1929 Great Depression with “people jumping off buildings.”

Towards the end of his speech in Pennsylvania, Trump — who had previously claimed, without evidence, that his 2020 loss was due to fraud, fueling his supporters’ January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — remarked that he would have preferred not to transfer power.

“We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left. I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well,” Trump said.

Source: Reuters