Rozina Sabur
Deputy US Editor
29 September 2024 2:45pm
Donald Trump has said he could have been “sunbathing on a beach” if he was not running to regain the presidency, saying: “You have never seen a body so beautiful.”
The former president, 78, said he “had a hell of a life” before entering politics but he told supporters in Wisconsin he would “keep fighting” for them.
“I will keep on fighting for you and for this country that we all love. That’s why I’m doing this,” he said.
“I tell you what, I had a good life before I did this. Nobody was shooting at me,” he joked, to laughter from the crowd
He continued: “I had a hell of a life. Oh, those locations… I could’ve been sunbathing on the beach. You have never seen a body so beautiful. Much better than Sleepy Joe.”
Tight race
The Republican candidate was in the battleground Midwestern state on Saturday as he ramps up his campaign schedule with just over five weeks until the Nov 5 presidential election.
Trump is locked in a tight race against Kamala Harris in national polls, and narrowly leads her in some surveys of the six main swing states.
He also holds a lead on some of the issues voters consistently identify as priorities, including immigration and border security.
He used his rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, to attack his Democratic opponent’s record on illegal immigration through the US-Mexico border, calling her “mentally impaired”.
Citing figures from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Trump claimed “under Kamala Harris more than 13,099 convicted murderers… have crossed our border… so they’re free to kill again”.
“They make our criminals look like babies,” he said.
In his most ferocious personal attack on his opponent yet, Trump told the crowd: “Kamala is mentally impaired. If a Republican did what she did that Republican would be impeached and removed from office and rightfully so for high crimes and misdemeanours.”
“Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way,” he said, to raucous applause from his supporters.
“And if you think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.”
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