Former President Donald Trump walks off stage at the end of a campaign rally at Lee’s Family Forum on October 31, 2024 in Henderson, Nevada. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump shifted from one topic to another, airing a litany of familiar grievances during a rambling and hyperbolic speech Thursday afternoon in Henderson.
Trump unloaded on Vice Pres. Kamala Harris’s economic problems, immigration policies, credibility, intellect and mental fitness for office.
“If she can’t handle the press conferences or the television interviews, and she can’t do that, then you can’t handle the presidency,” he said of Harris. “It will be overwhelmed, melt away and millions of people will die.”
Trump announced he filed a lawsuit Thursday against CBS News for editing one of Harris’ responses during an interview on 60 Minutes.
“I think CBS should lose its license, but I think ABC should lose its license too,” Trump said during the meeting at the Lee Family Forum in Henderson.
Networks are not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, but each network owns and operates a number of local stations in major markets that are licensed by the government.
Trump made no mention of the failures that have plagued his campaign in the final week leading up to Election Day.
With presidential elections at a dead end in battleground states, and him having to navigate a gender divide among voters of his own making, Trump did not repeat his position. proclamation a day earlier that he is the self-proclaimed protector of women “whether the women like it or not.”
The statement sparked widespread outrage, including from Harris, who called Trump’s words “deeply offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”
Of the nearly 60 million ballots cast in America to date, 55% have come from women and 45% from men, according to a analysis by Politico.
The former president tried to woo minority voters but failed to denounce a comedian’s racist comments that targeted Puerto Ricans, blacks, Jews and others. during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday,
“We welcome historic numbers of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Arab Americans.” Trump said Thursday. “And here in Nevada, we’re going to win a record share of the Hispanic vote at a level that no one has ever seen before.”
He also reiterated his pledge to initiate mass deportations of undocumented immigrants “on day one.”
Nevada is home to approximately 168,000 undocumented immigrants, according to 2019 data analyzed of the Migration Policy Institute. Census data shows that more than a quarter of illegal immigrants in Nevada have been in the U.S. for more than 20 years, and a majority for more than 10 years. About a third are homeowners.
Undocumented workers make up about 5% of the U.S. workforce.
Trump’s remarks, which spanned more than 90 minutes, often moved freely from topic to topic. He went from warning that foreign companies doing business in the US have no loyalty to the US, to questioning the legitimacy of ‘Crazy Nancy’ Pelosi’s wealth, to recounting memories of his father receiving $100 put into tin cups with beggars. He said he would win California if the votes were counted fairly. He boasted of Elon Musk, a mega-donor to Trump’s re-election bid, praising his rockets and telling the crowd “in terms of computer, Elon is the best.” And he gave the audience a brief history of his post-presidential social media presence.
Governor Joe Lombardo, who once said Trump was a “healthy president” even if he was not a “great” president, ended a long string of absences from Trump campaign rallies by making a brief appearance on Thursday, and was subsequently dismissed by the government publicly exempted from the event. candidate.
“Can he go do some business so we can win and he can take care of some incredible young people,” Trump said as Lombardo walked out as Trump began his remarks.
“With your help, we are going to win Nevada,” Trump told the crowd. He noted that Republicans are leading Democrats in early voting “for the first time ever” and thanked Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, one of Trump’s 2020 mock electors in Nevada.
