Trump said Democrats are using disgusting rhetoric

Donald Trump delivered his final speech to Atlanta voters on Monday, leaning heavily on immigration and anti-transgender rhetoric.

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump – when attacking all kinds of opponents by the vice president Kamala Harris former first lady Michelle Obama — said Monday that it was Democrats who were using “disgusting” rhetoric to define his campaign as he tried to woo all-important Georgia voters just a week before the 2024 election.

Trump’s rally at Georgia Tech in Atlanta was aimed at getting voters to the polls ahead of the Nov. 5 runoff election. “We love Georgia,” he told the crowd to applause at the start of his roughly 75-minute speech.

Georgia is among seven major swing states Trump and Harris believe this is the key to their path to victory. Trump barely lost Georgia in 2020 to President Joe Biden—neither the former president nor Harris showed a clear lead in the state in recent polls.

Trump’s latest appeal to voters included attacks on transgender people, proposals for tax cuts, a dose of nostalgia and plenty of talk about immigration.

Here are some key points.

Antitrans message

In the final days of the election, the Trump campaign questioned Harris’ position. support for the transgender community and leaned toward anti-trans messages. Monday’s rally was no exception.

Early in his speech, Trump called transgender issues a “big deal” and told supporters, “We don’t want transgender surgery everywhere… We don’t want men playing women’s sports.”

He used similar lines in his address, suggesting his campaign might view the issue as a rallying cry for Trump’s base. Advertising in support of Trump claim that Harris is for “they/them” and say that she is for “them/them” and say that she is for “them/them”prisoner gender reassignment”

But polls have shown that transgender rights issues are not top of mind for most voters. A Gallup poll since early October found that transgender rights rank as the least important issue on voters’ minds across 22 issue areas, including the economy, inflation, abortion, taxes and energy policy.

Criticism Harris’ rhetoric

Trump used the rally to dispute attacks from some Democrats who compared his rallies, actions and past comments to those of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.

Harris described Trump as “fascist“Last week, after John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, used the term describe the former president in an interview with the New York Times. Kelly also said that Trump has repeatedly made glowing comments about Hitler.

“The way they talk is so disgusting, it’s just terrible,” Trump said at his rally on Monday. “This is the kind of outrageous rhetoric that has led to two assassination attempts in the last three months.”

Democrats noted that it was Trump who attacked Harris’ intelligence, ethnicity and competence. He called her policy fascist in August and called her a fascist on Monday.

Condemning the rhetoric against him, Trump told the Atlanta crowd regarding Harris: “She’s a fascist, okay? She’s a fascist.”

Harris previously said Trump is “fixated on his grievances, on himself and on dividing our country,” citing Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden as the latest example.

“This is absolutely what is intended and fuels efforts to divide our country,” Harris said.

Reduced taxes on care

If elected, Trump proposed tax reduction about everything from overtime pay to Social Security benefits. Now you can add a tax benefit for family caregivers to that list.

During his rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump announced a new policy proposal for family caregivers and repeated it to Atlanta voters Monday night.

“I will support a tax break, a full tax break for family caregivers who care for a parent or loved one. They deserve it,” Trump said to applause.

The proposal comes as Trump and Harris seek to appeal to two major voting blocs – seniors and women, who make up the majority. unpaid family caregivers in the country.

Harris promised earlier this year expand Medicare coverage include the cost of home care for seniors if she wins.

MAGA nostalgia

If Trump wins, he cannot run for re-election again under the Constitution. If he loses, he has made it clear that he will not launch a new presidential campaign in 2028.

On Monday night, the former president reflected on his time in the political spotlight over the past eight years, as well as the end of his re-election campaign.

“We’re almost done with this. We’ve been doing this together for nine years,” he said, adding that it would be “very difficult” for future Republican presidential candidates to match the size of his crowd.

Trump called his rise to political fame a “unique situation” and “the greatest political movement.”

Trump calls Michelle Obama ‘disgusting’

Trump called former first lady Michelle Obama “disgusting” for comments she made about him at an event for Harris over the weekend.

During performance in Michigan on SaturdayObama described Trump as “unstable” and said he is a convicted felon and in “clear mental decline,” among other criticisms.

Trump hit back, saying “she made a big mistake.”

Trump criticizes Democrats’ immigration record

Immigration has been a major focus of Trump’s campaign since he first ran for president in 2016. And in the last days of the election race, he remained true to his position.

Trump criticized Biden and Harris’ immigration policies and recalled the death of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on campus in February. A 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant. was arrested on murder and assault charges, and federal authorities said he entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and had been arrested at least once before.

Trump used Reilly’s death as an example of violent crimes committed by immigrants in the US even though they were convicted of committing crimes in the US. less than half the bet US citizens born in the US, according to a study by the National Institute of Justice.

Rally cry to get votes

With electoral margins as close as they are in Georgia, every vote matters. Trump pressed protesters about the importance of voting and at one point held a real-time voice poll to see how many people had already voted.

“We are leading by a wide margin, but get out and vote. We can’t take any chances,” Trump said.

Earlier in the day, Trump appealed to Christian voters during a religious summit near Atlanta. a critical part of his constituency – go to the polls.

Contributing: Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY