The 2024 campaign is nearing its final stages, and previously President Donald Trump is attracting attention in Rhetoric on immigration — and chase the enemy.
This comes at a time when candidates are virtually neck and neck both nationally and in battleground states, according to the latest information. vote From CBS News. The former president also reiterated what he had warned throughout the campaign about what he called “the enemy from within.”
At a campaign rally in the battleground state of Arizona on Sunday, Trump focused on immigration, a crucial issue in his campaign.
“If I win on November 5th, the immigrant invasion will end and our nation’s recovery will begin.”
The former president pledged to hire 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents after vetoing a bipartisan bill earlier this year that would have added 1,500 additional personnel. And he doubled down on his rhetoric about border politics more broadly, arguing that the United States is “now known around the world as an occupied country.”
Trump also attacked the “enemy from within” on Election Day, naming Democrats and those who oppose or have investigated Trump in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday. He suggested using the military for this purpose.
“We have sick people and radical left-wing lunatics,” President Trump said Sunday. “And it could very easily be dealt with by the National Guard if necessary, or by the military if really necessary.”
On Saturday, President Trump told Democratic lawmakers: Adam Schiff He led the first impeachment against Trump and is now running for Senate, but was one of the “enemies from within” at the rally. Coachella, Californiahe portrayed Schiff and other rivals as a threat to the county. He on Friday called Vice President Kamala Harris’ role in the Biden administration’s handling of immigration, a common vector of attack in recent months, “criminal.”
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly used the label “insider threat” to label his political opponents during the campaign, but the label is gaining traction as Election Day approaches.
In a speech in New Hampshire in November 2023, President Trump used language reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, saying, “Communists who live like vermin on our territory.” , Marxists, fascists, and far-left thugs.” . ”
In his speech, President Trump said, “Threats from outside forces are far more sinister, dangerous and far less serious than threats from within.” “Our threat is from within.”
In a December 2023 speech, also in New Hampshire, President Trump said illegal immigrants “taint the blood of our nation.”
On immigration, Sunday’s comments are also the latest example of President Trump’s increasingly sharp rhetoric as he makes the issue a closing pitch for his 2024 campaign. there were.
in Rally in Aurora, Colorado on FridayWhile border security has been a focus of the former president’s pitch, Trump has called immigrants “rapists” during the last election, among a number of derogatory comments he has made about people seeking to enter the United States. He cited the criticism he received for this. It suggests that this country’s new landscape requires an entirely new vocabulary.
“These statements pale in comparison to what’s happening in our country,” Trump said. “They are the worst criminals in the world…They are the most violent people on the planet.”
The former president said he would “save Aurora and all the towns that have been invaded and conquered” and promised to “put these violent, bloodthirsty criminals behind bars or drive them out of the country.”
“We can’t live with people like this,” President Trump said. “These are frigid killers. If I were walking down the street with my husband, we would both die.”
President Trump said he hopes Colorado will vote in protest of “what they’ve done to the fabric of your culture.”
At a recent rally, President Trump called immigrants “animals” and said they come to America from “Third World dungeons” to “prey on innocent Americans.”
On Friday, President Trump also pledged to invoke the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, which has been used to round up or remove enemy nationals from the United States during wartime.
Trump supporters, on the other hand, appear to be reacting to the politicization of the border issue, which is the most decisive factor in the Republican vote.
A CBS News poll found that 65% of voters who voted for President Trump believe the Biden administration is trying to increase the number of migrants entering the country at the southern border. And of those individuals who said so, nearly three-quarters said this is happening because the government wants non-citizens to vote. Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in federal elections, and illegal crossings at the southern border reached the lowest level of Biden’s presidency in September.
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