Trump is long on criticism and short on offers in rambling closing argument for Nevada • Nevada Current

Old Pres. Donald Trump bounced from one topic to the next, repeating familiar complaints during a rambling and bombastic speech in Henderson on Thursday afternoon.

Trump blamed the Vice President. Kamala Harris’ economic skills, immigration policy, credibility, intelligence, and mental fitness for office.

“If she can’t handle press conferences or television interviews, and she can’t handle it, you can’t handle the presidency either,” he said of Harris. “It will overwhelm, it will melt, and millions of people will die.”

Trump announced Thursday that he is suing CBS News for editing one of Harris’ responses during an interview with 60 Minutes.

“I think CBS should lose its license, but I think ABC should lose its license, too,” Trump said during a rally at the Lee Family Forum in Henderson.

The networks are not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, but each network owns and operates a number of local stations licensed by the government in major markets.

Trump made no mention of the misfires that negatively impacted his campaign in the final week leading up to Election Day.

Trump has not repeated that statement as presidential race polls heat up in battleground states and drive the gender divide among his own created electorate. declaration the day before he had said that he was the protector of women “whether women like it or not.”

The statement sparked widespread outrage, including from Harris, who called Trump’s remarks “very offensive to women’s failure to understand their own agency, their authority, their rights, and their ability to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”

Of the approximately 60 million ballots cast in America so far, 55 percent are from women and 45 percent are from men. analysis By Politico.

The former president tried to persuade minority voters but failed to condemn a comedian’s racist remarks targeting Puerto Ricans, Blacks, Jews and others During Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday,

“We welcome historic numbers of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Arab Americans.” Trump said on Thursday. “And here in Nevada, we will have a record share of the Hispanic American vote at a level that no one has ever seen before.”

He also reiterated his promise to begin mass deportations of undocumented immigrants “on day one.”

Nevada is home to approximately 168,000 undocumented immigrants, according to 2019 data analyzed By the Migration Policy Institute. Census data show that more than a quarter of unauthorized immigrants in Nevada have been in the United States for more than 20 years, and the majority have been in the United States for more than a decade. Approximately one-third are homeowners.

Undocumented workers make up about 5% of America’s workforce.

Trump’s remarks, which lasted more than 90 minutes, often bounced freely from topic to topic. He went from warning that foreign companies doing business in the United States had no loyalty to the United States, to questioning the legitimacy of “Crazy Nancy” Pelosi’s wealth, to recounting memories of his father putting $100 bills into beggars’ tin containers. He said he would win California if the votes were counted fairly. He admired Elon Musk, a megadonor to Trump’s reelection bid, praising his rockets and telling the crowd that “from a computing standpoint, Elon is the best.” And he gave viewers a brief history of his post-presidency social media presence.

Gov. Joe Lombardo, who once said Trump was a “solid president” if not a “great one,” made a brief appearance Thursday, ending Trump’s long absence from campaign rallies and was later publicly excused from the event by officials. applicant.

As Trump began his remarks, as Lombardo walked out, Trump said, “Can he go do some work so we can win and he can take care of these incredible young people?”

“With your help, we will win Nevada,” Trump told the crowd. He noted that Republicans were leading Democrats in early voting “for the first time” and thanked the state’s Republican Party chairman, Michael McDonald, who was one of Trump’s fake voters in Nevada in 2020.