Tweet Facebook Mail Former US President Donald Trump repeatedly swerved from a message focused on the economy into non-sequiturs and personal attacks, including thrice declaring that he was better looking than Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump wound back and forth between hitting his points on economic policy and delivering a smattering of insults and impressions of President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron as he held a rally in northeastern Pennsylvania. The former president has seemed to struggle to adjust to his new opponent after Democrats replaced their nominee.
Over the past week, he has diverged during campaign appearances away from the policies he was billed to speak about and instead diverted to a rotation of familiar attack lines and insults. READ MORE: Entire family wiped out in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP) As he attacked Democrats for inflation at the top of his speech, Trump asked his crowd of supporters, "You don't mind if I go off teleprompter for a second, do you? Joe Biden hates her." Joseph Costello, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, responded to Trump in a statement by saying, "Another rally, same old show" and that Trump "resorts to lies, name-calling, and confused rants," because he can't sell his agenda. "The more Americans hea.