Do you know what infuriates Donald Trump? Calling him angry.
If he came across as angry in Tuesday night’s debate, he was making no apologies for it two days later, saying he had every right to be furious about what Kamala Harris was doing to the country.
‘People said that I was angry at the debate, angry,’ he told a raucous crowd in Tucson, Arizona.
‘I was angry, and yes, I am angry because she allowed 21 million illegal aliens invading our communities. Many of them are criminals.’
The event was billed as a chance to address the spiralling cost of living crisis. And Trump unveiled a populist new policy, promising to end tax on overtime.
After marking the anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday, Donald Trump was back out on the campaign trail on Thursday, with a rally in Tucson, Arizona, a must-win state
But much of his speech was taken up with Tuesday’s debate. Trump railed against the moderators and said he had no need for another meeting with Harris after his ‘monumental victory.’
Harris was declared the winner of the debate in a DailyMail.com snap poll of viewers. They also said she was the winner of the vibe war, saying the vice president made them feel ‘hopeful’ while Trump made them feel ‘annoyed.’
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Trump was clearly rattled by her attacks, baited into repeating a rightwing online rumor that illegal immigrants had been stealing and eating pets.
On Thursday, he was back on the campaign trail trying to get his election run back on track in a crucial battleground state.
He did that in typical Trump style, by making no apologies for appearing angry and by repeating the claim about migrants and cats and dogs.
He said 911 calls in Springfield, Ohio, revealed migrants walking off with geese.
‘The migrants are walking off with the town’s geese. They’ve taken the geese,’ he said. ‘You know where the geese are in the park, in the lake, and even walking off with their pets
‘My dog’s been taken.’
He appeared at the city’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, much to the horror of its namesake, who earlier condemned his appearance.
It usually hosts Tucson’s symphony orchestra. ZZ Top are coming in October. But on Thursday it was the stage for Trump’s trademark freewheeling delivery, packed with fury.
J.L. 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 is hitting Arizona, California and Nevada on his swing out west
‘I’m angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized and murdered by Savage criminal aliens,’ he said.
‘I’m angry about rampant inflation destroying our middle class, and the American people are also very angry about that and every other thing that we’ve had to endure for three and a half years.’
Behind him a diverse mix of supporters, some in cowboy hats … some in suits, held up signs. ‘Latino Americans for Trump,’ said one
And he couldn’t help but hark back to the debate, slamming Harris as well as the two ABC moderators.
‘Kamala Harris showed up spewing empty rhetoric. The same old lies, platitudes, offering no plans, no policies and no details whatsoever, nothing,’ he said.
‘The two anchors, David Muir and Linsey Davis, sat there and only corrected me on things where I was right but didn’t correct Kamala on Project 25 that I knew nothing about, on the bloodbath hoax that has been totally debunked, which had to do with the automobile industry that is going to be dying
J.L. Partners polled 800 independent viewers immediately after Tuesday’s debate. They said they knew more about Trump’s policy plans than Harris
People lined up around the convention center, curving around parking lots, in temperatures that climbed well over 100F to get a seat inside
Both candidates headed to battleground states as they looked to kick on from Tuesday’s debate.
Harris was in North Carolina, with rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro, for a chance to further buoy her supporters after a strong performance when she knocked Trump off his stride and put him on the defensive in their first head-to head-meeting.
Her team has been poring over the 90-minute debate for clips to turn into TV ads.
Meanwhile, Trump was looking to stabilize his campaign, which has been in flux ever since Harris unexpectedly entered the race in July.
He has bulked up his senior staff, who believe he can capitalize what they see as Harris’s inability to flesh out her policy agenda and her vague answers on Tuesday.
That hunch is borne out by a poll of debate viewers (all independent viewers) conducted by J.L. Partners for DailyMail.com
Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake was one of the warmup speakers on Thursday
Trump and Harris clashed for more than 90 minutes in the ABC News debate on Tuesday
Some 50 percent said they still needed to know more about Harris’ plans for office, compared with 37 percent for Trump.
Arizona is central to Trump’s chances of success. Joe Biden win it by fewer than 11,000 votes, a narrow margin that triggered rounds of legal action and claims of fraud by Trump allies.
Trump had won it four years earlier by 3.5 percent.
The latest data from the J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com election model, which crunches decades of data along with the latest polls and forecasts, suggests it currently ‘leans Trump.’
His visit attracted criticism from the off. Mexican American singer Linda Ronstadt condemned him for his ‘hatred’ before his appearance in her namesake music hall.
‘It saddens me to see the former president bring his hate show to Tucson, a town with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful, tolerant spirit. I don’t just deplore his toxic politics, his hatred of women, immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance – although there’s that,’ Ronstadt wrote in a Facebook in which she also called him a rapist.