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 Every Falsehood, Exaggeration and Untruth in Trump’s and Harris’s Stump Speeches By Linda Qiu and  Elena Shao  Updated Oct. 4    With Election Day fast approaching, former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are accelerating their campaigns in battleground states and honing their closing arguments to sway voters and mobilize support. Two recent speeches by the candidates — Mr. Trump in Las Vegas and Ms. Harris in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — offer a glimpse at how their approaches and messages differ.  Over an hour and 3 minutes, Mr. Trump made 64 statements
			that were false, inaccurate or lacking context.   Thank you very much, everybody.    Hello, Las Vegas.    Hello, Las Vegas.    I’m thrilled to be back in this incredible state with thousands of proud, hardworking American patriots, which is what you are.    As you all saw three months ago, we had a monumental victory.    We had a beautiful victory three months ago.    And then, a couple of nights ago, we had an even better victory.    We took her on, Comrade Kamala Harris.    We took her on and we did really well.    Every poll had us up like 90, 92, 87.    We had a, uh – we actually had one, 92 to 6, which sounds about right    because now today, Rasmussen just came up, and we were six points up.    So, it’s pretty good.    Pretty good.    We dismantled her terrible record, we exposed her radical liberal agenda, and we laid out our plans to quite simply make America great again.    Meanwhile, Comrade Kamala Harris, Comrade, showed up, spewing lies and meaningless platitudes with no plans, no policies and no solutions whatsoever.    She doesn’t have a clue.    The only thing she had was a lot of people trying to push her over the line.    It’s not happening.    We’re not going to let this country be destroyed.    It’s already in deep trouble.    She offered American voters nothing but falsehoods and hoaxes while our country is being destroyed.    Our country is being destroyed, do we know that?    Not going to be for long.    Honestly, November — November 5th, is going to be the most important day in the history of our country, I really believe it.    And today, she had a terrible interview.    Did you see the interview she had today?    She can’t talk.    She can’t talk.    She can’t talk without, maybe, getting the answers.    What’s the story with that?    Did she get the questions, do you think?    So, I hear she got the questions, and    I also heard she had something in — the ear, a little something in the ear.    “No, Kamala, do this. Say it this way, Kamala. Okay, be quiet. Too many people watching.” She had a terrible interview today with the Philadelphia TV station.    A big word salad.    She just kept talking, talking, talking.    She had no idea what the hell she was saying.    She reminded me of Sleepy Joe Biden.    But people said that I was angry during debate, and I said, “Why wouldn’t I be angry? Of course I’m angry.    We got 21 million people that came into our country, invading our communities, invading our cities and our towns, and destroying our country.    I’m angry about Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora, Colorado, and I’m angry about illegal Haitian migrants taking over Springfield, Ohio.” You see that mess, don’t you?    And the Colorado governor is petrified.    He’s scared.    He doesn’t know what to do.    “The Venezuelans are attacking my state,” he said.    “The Venezuelans have big AK-47 Supremes.” This is Supreme.    Where the hell do they get these guns?    Our soldiers can’t get these guns.    They’re taking over our country from within, I mean, can you believe?    Then we got – we got Kamala.    I’m angry about young American girls being raped and murdered by savage criminal aliens that come into our country very easily, but very illegally.    I’m angry about rampant inflation destroying our middle class.    And the American people are damn angry, too.    We’re all angry.    Country’s being – wrecked.    That’s why, 53 days from now, we’re going to tell Harris that we’ve had enough.    Our country can’t take it anymore.    Comrade Kamala Harris, you’re fired!    You’re fired!    Get out!    Get out!    Get the hell out of here!    She shouldn’t be there anyway, she got no votes.    She’s a threat to democracy, right?    That’s what they say.    They always say, “Donald Trump,” you know it’s a sound bite for them?    “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.” Now she’s a threat.    Think of it – Joe Biden had 14 million votes; she had none.    She was the first one that failed.    Out of all the candidates, I think they had 22,    she didn’t even make it to Iowa, the first stop.    Didn’t even make it.    During the nominating process, she didn’t make it to Iowa.    During the nominating process, she didn’t make it to Iowa.    But we’re running against her.    I think based on what I’m seeing in the polls, I think she could be just as easy as him.    He was down so much.    He was down 21 points,    and they went to him and they said, “Get out of here, Sleepy Joe, you’re going to lose.” “I’m not going to get out. I won’t do it.” He held on for about a day.    Did you see the hat, though, the other day, right?    He walked into a great, beautiful area in Pennsylvania.    I was there, because that’s where one of the planes came down, you know that.    It was incredible, the reverence that we had for that area.    It’s horrible.    But the bravery of those people on that plane.    But the fire station, which was so brave also, and they did a fantastic job, and the place was stacked with every family member.    And Joe went in first and nobody… They didn’t even, you could hear a pin drop.    And then one of the firemen said, “Put the hat on! Put it on.” And I thought he was a little bit rough, Kash.    I thought he was a little bit rough, actually.    You know we’re talking to the president of the United States, right?    But this fireman, rough guy, obviously a Trump fan.    So, they throw him a Make America great… Look at them, look at all of them.    Oh, I love your hat.    Stand up.    Stand up.    Look at that.    No, no, stand up, right there.    Turn around.    Show the cameras.    I love that.    I love that hat.    You’re going to have to give me that hat later.    I’m going to have to make it, okay?    Would you do that?    You’re so cute.    Oh, I’m not allowed to say that!    That could be the end of my political career.    We’re not allowed to say that anymore.    That’s a great hat.    But they looked at Joe, they said, “Put on the hat.” “No, no, I can’t do that. It wouldn’t look good. It says Trump on it.” No, it doesn’t say that.    It says, “Make America great again.” And then the guy goes, “Put it on! Put it on! Now!” “Okay.” And he puts it on, and the rest is history.    It was so bad.    Right?    The rest is history.    Sleepy Joe.    What’s better, Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe?    Okay, ready?    A free poll.    You know it’s Friday night, we have a lot of time, right?    Do you think, later on, should I do The Snake or not?    People love The Snake.    It’s so appropriate.    Okay, you ready?    A quick poll.    Ready?    I’ll go Sleepy Joe, and then I’ll go Crooked Joe.    Ready?    Who likes Sleepy Joe?    Who likes Crooked Joe?    All right, thank you.    I just saved $200,000 with these phony pollsters.    They don’t even go out and check.    They just give you a number.    “Sir, that’ll cost $250,000 to interview 200 people.” Oh, thank you, you just did it for nothing.    And they don’t interview the 200, but they just put down a number.    “Let’s see, Trump is ahead 50 to 46.” No, that was something.    And then by the way, two hours later, I walked into the same firehouse.    The place went crazy.    Right?    The most preposterous part of Kamala… And how do you like the name Comrade Kamala Harris?    You know why?    It indicates that she is a communist comrade, because she is.    You know that she’s further left than crazy Bernie Sanders?    Can you believe it?    He’s crazy, that guy.    He’s almost as crazy as Nancy Pelosi.    She’s nuts.    The most preposterous part of Kamala’s debate performance was when she tried to gaslight the public into believing she never supported the radical left policies that she has championed for her entire career.    Do you mind if we roll a tape, please?    Let’s roll a tape.    Go ahead. ...    Everything is a lie, including the fact that she never worked at McDonald’s.    She lied about that, too.    I told that to one of the fake news people two days ago.    I was doing a news conference and the fake news was there.    I said, “You people all said she worked beautifully at McDonald’s. It turned out it was a lie. Will you admit it? Will you admit it?” I said.    And they said, “Oh yeah, we’ll admit.” They never did.    They don’t want to.    They’re protecting her.    I don’t know why.    She wants open borders,    she wants – Pennsylvania, zero… You know what’s going to happen?    There’ll never be fracking in Pennsylvania.    They’re going to take away your guns, you saw that, they’re going to take away your guns.    She’s going to take away your guns.    Would anybody like to give up their gun?    Would anybody like to voluntarily, with great liberal fanfare, say, “I’d like to give up my weapon, so that I can be shot in my house.” But she’s clearly not well.    Take a look at these videos.    Look at this, real fast. ...    She said “thank you” 38 times.    And at the end it was, “Thank you, thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank.” I said, “What the hell’s… What’s wrong with her?” I say, “Thank you.” And you wait a couple of seconds.    You say, “Thank you.” Again.    You say, “Come on, let’s get going. Thank you,” one more time.    38 times.    “Thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank.” There’s something wrong with her, okay?    Or as she would say, “She’s weird. She’s weird.” That was another soundbite they made up about JD and myself.    No, we’re solid people.    We’re very solid.    We’re very solid people.    We’re not weird.    They’re weird.    How about the vice president?    How about the vice president?    Now, he’s weird.    Despite all of these flagrant lies and the many other hoaxes she spread, the fake news moderators did not check her out.    They didn’t check what Comrade Kamala Harris… They didn’t – Do you see the lies that she was making up?    Project 2025, I’ve said a hundred times, I know nothing about it.    I had nothing to do.    She goes out with a commercial.    “I support this, I support that, I support 25.” All lies, and lies that she knows are lies, that have been debunked, as they say, in the crazy news organization.    Hey, that’s a lot of press we have back there.    That’s a lot of fake news.    That’s a lot of fake news.    Meanwhile, every time they interfered to fact check me, it turned out that they were wrong, and Trump was right.    For example, a big one, I said that crime was up massively.    I didn’t want to go into the details.    What’s the purpose?    Crime was up massively.    And David Muir, you know, he’s another one doesn’t have a clue, you know?    And his hair was much better five years ago, I can tell you.    But David Muir barged in to claim that, “Sir! Crime was down.” And he said, quote, “President Trump, as you know, the FBI… says overall, violent crime is coming down in this country.” Now let me, you don’t have to see this.    You see what the hell is happening with crime?    Who would say it was down, even if without looking?    So, he reprimanded me for saying that crime was up.    And somebody in our government, at a very high level, likes me.    And they released the real numbers.    It said, yeah, in breaking news, just yesterday night, the premier statistical agency at the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, released brand-new data showing that since Kamala Harris took office, violent crime, nationwide, is up 40%.    Rape is up 42%.    Car theft is up 42%.    Robberies are up 67%.    Aggravated assaults are up much more than 55%.    And violent crime with a weapon is up 56%.    Violent attacks on strangers, I never heard of that one, is up 61 plus percent.    So, David Muir owes me an apology, do you agree?    She lies about everything, just like she lied about jobs.    They said they had 818,000 jobs, and it was a fraud.    They didn’t, they just wanted to pad the numbers before the election.    But fortunately, we had a leaker — or a whistleblower, I don’t care which.    I love that person; I’m not sure who it is.    And that person said that it was a total fraud.    They wanted to announce the correction.    They were going to do a correction right after the election.    They were going to do it on the 10th of November.    They just wanted to get by the election.    So, they fraudulently added 818,000 jobs.    Isn’t that unbelievable?    And yesterday they announced, “Yes, it was a slip-up.” 818,000.    Because their job numbers were looking like, “Where the hell did all those jobs come from?” You know where they came from?    Somebody’s sick brain, that’s where they came from.    Under Kamala Harris and the Communist left, our country is under invasion.    We are under invasion, just like it was an army.    Except, in many ways, it’s more difficult, because they don’t wear a uniform.    You don’t know who the hell to go after.    Millions and millions of illegal aliens are coming in from all over the world, from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and many terrorists, at numbers that we’ve never seen before – terrorists are coming into our country.    If you look at 2019, and I disagree with this, really, even though it’s good for me – they said in the year 2019, not one terrorist.    There’s an official definition of that, but you don’t want to hear it.    Not one terrorist came in.    That was my year, 2019, one of my years.    Not one terrorist came into the country.    Now, I sort of can’t believe that.    But it was pretty close, it was pretty close.    And now we have thousands and thousands and thousands of terrorists coming into our country.    They’re coming in from parts unknown.    This will not end well, unless Donald J. Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States, right?    Not going to end well, right?    Because I am your border president.    From now on, I want to be your border president.    I did a great job in 2016 on the border and we solved the problem very, very quickly, a beautiful job.    And in 2020 when I got millions of more votes than I did in 2016.    By the way, we did much better in 2020.    Everybody knows that.    Everybody knows that, but my people would say, “Sir, they don’t want to hear about the border.” I said, “I want to talk about it. I did a great job.” They don’t care.    “You’ve solved the border.” It was solved.    It was beautiful.    The difference is that this border crisis is 20 times worse than it was in 2016, but I’ll get it solved, I’ll get it solved fast, and we’ll get back to making our country strong again.    And I only want to be addressed – no longer as Mr. President – Mr. Border President, sir, because we got to get this border fixed.    We got people coming in that have never even dreamed about being in this country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked.    Nobody has any idea where the hell they come from.    Kamala would be the president of invasion and I will be the president of making this country stronger, better, more beautiful, bigger, more powerful, wealthier, safer than ever before.    I will protect our country.    She will surrender our country.    She has already let in 21 million people and if she gets four more years in America, our country will be obliterated.    The 21 million people    will be hundreds of millions of people will come in from all over the world, which is where they’re coming from now.    You’ll have 150 million more people.    You won’t have a country anymore.    You’re pretty close to not having one.    You better hope I get elected.    You better go out.    You’ll have a country back soon.    You’ll have your country back soon.    Not only is Harris … Do you ever notice when you say Harris, nobody knows who the hell you’re talking about.    You ever?    No, nobody has any idea.    Harris.    Hey is … Where’s Harris?    They know Kamala.    They know “Kambabla.” That was the nickname I used for a while, but I don’t use it anymore because everyone thought I was just mispronouncing her name.    I wasn’t.    “Kambabla.”    But no.    “Comrade” is the best because it says she’s a Marxist, communist, fascist person, which is … She’s a fascist.    Who the hell ever thought would be voting for a communist for president?    She is.    Look at her record.    Do you know that she wanted to have transgender surgery on illegal aliens that came into our country that were in jail?    Can you believe it?    She wanted… Did anyone know that?    I would say that’s quite a liberal thing to do, don’t you think?    Where the hell did she come from?    Honestly, I am not a big fan of Crooked Joe, but he would’ve been better than her.    He really would’ve been.    They didn’t want her.    She was the last one on the list.    They had 22 people they were looking at and the people voted.    She was the last one on the list, and I’m running against her.    It should be a good thing.    Look, based on … That’s sort of like a poll.    It should be a good thing, but it’s so unfair to our country and it’s unfair to Crooked Joe.    I feel badly.    Does anybody feel badly for Joe?    No?    No.    He was the worst president in the history of our country.    She is the worst vice president in the history of our country.    And the only good thing, he’s an old man now, and I’m sure he’s watching right now, but President Jimmy Carter, his administration looks totally brilliant by comparison.    So he no longer has to go down as the worst president because this group … I used to say, and I used to say it a lot, but if you took the 10 worst presidents or administrations, but 10 worst presidents in the history of our country and added them up, they would not have done the damage that this one presidency has done to our country.    What’s happened to our country?    We’re a laughing stock all over the world.    You think President Xi is enjoying it, but he won’t be enjoying it for long.    Not only is Kamala allowing millions of illegal aliens to stampede across our border, but she is flying them in from other countries.    Once she said a couple of months ago, they put on some extra little breaks to make their numbers look a little bit better, but they forgot to tell you that they’re flying in hundreds of thousands of people right over the border.    And I was with Art Del Cueto.    I was with the people from border control today or Border Patrol today, and they said, “No, those numbers don’t register.” In other words, they don’t count when they fly them in.    They’re flying them in in beautiful jet planes.    They’re flying them to Idaho.    Idaho potatoes.    I don’t think they want them.    They’re flying them to Iowa.    They’re flying them all over.    Now we have only border states okay?    Who would believe this fake … They’re saying, “No, no. We want to stop them,” but they’re flying them in by the tens of thousands on big, beautiful jet airplanes.    They’re flying them in.    These people are sick and they’re destroying our country.    You got to get out and vote and make sure they’re not cheating.    Make sure your vote counts.    Over the past three-and-a-half years, Harris and Biden have resettled a half a million illegal migrants from Haiti, including over 200,000 that she has flown into the United States by very beautiful airplanes,    I’d like to have one so nice, and deposit them into American communities all over the country.    Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, “A Venezuelan gang is expanding its deadly reach into the United States. They’ve become real estate developers,” like I used to be.    “They’re taking over apartment houses in Colorado.” The story begins, “U.S. law enforcement officials have watched with alarm the spread of Venezuelan gangs known as dismembering rivals.” They’re dismembering rivals from Chile and from Colombia.    They’re dismembering.    You know what that means?    Cutting them up.    They’re cutting them up.    How the hell did we allow this to happen to our country?    Likewise, The New York Times, or as I call it, the failing New York Times, it’s a failing paper.    The Washington Post is a failing paper.    Will you fail already?    Just get out.    They’re such phonies.    If The New York Times writes a story about you just go the opposite.    If you go the exact opposite, it’ll be very accurate.    The failing New York Times today reports this vicious Venezuelan prison gang is “Snick.” It sneaked into the United States among the millions of migrants who have crossed the border and is peddling drugs, guns, and women across the 50 states from urban centers like New York and Chicago to Florida beaches and once tranquil Middle America in Colorado.    The gang even got a green light to shoot the cops.    They were given an okay to shoot the cops.    How about that?    I just met a lot of great policemen backstage and police women backstage.    That’s not acceptable, but they were given an okay.    When I returned to the White House, I will launch a special task force of elite federal law enforcement and charge them with crushing and eliminating every foreign gang and organized crime network that is conquering our country.    They’re conquering our country.    We will deploy ICE, DHS, and other federal officials to go in and liberate Aurora.    We’re going to … Can you believe I’m saying that?    Can you believe I have to say this?    We are going to liberate parts of our country.    Let’s go back another 300 years.    We are going to liberate our country.    Did you ever think I would be standing here?    It’s a hell of a way to get elected.    The only good thing about what they’re doing is it’s great for the guy that happens to be running against these idiots, okay?    It’s the only thing.    That’s the only benefit.    That’s the only benefit I can see is running against them is a very good thing.    But last week, a high school girl in Virginia was walking to the bus stop when an illegal alien from Kamala Harris caught and released into the United States and let go by her, drove up behind her pretending to be a police officer.    He said, I’m a police officer.    He wasn’t.    The predator got out, grabbed her, and forced her into his car.    She had to escape by throwing herself out of a moving vehicle, believing she would be raped or murdered.    She was very badly hurt.    Also, this month, an illegal alien who entered our country through Kamala’s phone app.    Could you believe we have phone apps?    You know where they go to?    The cartels.    The cartels have apps where they call in so they know where to deposit their illegal people that, and they’re making billions.    They’ll be in the Forbes 400 along with your friend, me.    I’ll say, I don’t believe it.    This guy, he doesn’t speak English.    He can’t read or write, and he’s worth $10 billion.    That tells you something, doesn’t it?    If they put all of these people into the Forbes 400.    Used to be a big list.    I don’t know if it’s a big list.    I think Forbes is failing pretty badly now.    I haven’t heard about it in a long time, but they’d occupy a large section of the list.    But they have an app.    An app where they call so they know where they can illegally drop these people.    An illegal alien who entered our country through Kamala’s phone app was doing things that nobody believed.    He was arrested for the murder of a 25-year-old woman in Tennessee.    And in August, an illegal alien from Honduras, a beautiful place, who was previously deported under the Trump administration, was arrested for stabbing a young, beautiful 14-year-old girl with a butcher knife as she watched her brother’s baseball game.    He was just doing a horrible thing.    Who would like to hear the snake, because I have nothing but time tonight.    I got a lot of time.    They love the snake.    You know why?    It’s something that’s highly accurate.    It was a song many years ago and we reworked it a little bit and it became something that people like, but it’s very accurate in terms of what it represents for this country.    And very sad, too.    I will tell you.    So let’s go.    You ready?    On her way to work, one morning down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake.    His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.    “Poor thing,” she cried.    “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you.” “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” cried the vicious snake.    She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk and laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk.    She hugged and kissed him brightly.    The work that night had gone.    She found the pretty snake she had taken in had been revived.    “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” cried that vicious snake.    She clutched him to her bosom.    “You’re so beautiful,” she sighed.    “But if I hadn’t taken you in by now, you truly would have died.” She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight.    But instead of saying, “Thank you, ma’am,” the snake gave her a vicious bite.    Surprise.    “Take me in oh, tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed the vicious snake.    “I saved you,” cried the woman, “And you’ve bitten me. But why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.” “Shut up, silly woman,” sighed the reptile with a grin.    “You know damn well I was a snake before you took me in.”    And that’s the end of the story.    And I had to do that sucker by memory because there’s no light up here.    As much light, I’m dark.    It’s like dark.    I had two problems.    It’s dark and the print on that thing is so light you couldn’t read it.    So I did the best I could, but not bad, right?    I couldn’t see.    Michael, I couldn’t see a frickin’ word.    I said, “I have an idea. Let’s do this snake.” And then I take it out.    I say, “Oh, my God. That’s a very light print. Oh, my God. There’s no light.” Between the light and the print.    I’m saying, “What the hell am I doing this for?” But it wasn’t bad.    And you get the point.    When I’m a president and when I become your president, when we all — we’re going to all work together.    We’re going to make it happen.    We will get the illegal alien, murderers, rapists, and child predators the hell out of our country, and we will not ever, ever, ever let them back in.    So Nevada, get out and vote.    We win this state, we’re going to win the whole thing.    We win this, we’re going to win the whole thing.    If we win this state, we win everything.    And the people of Nevada also need to get out and vote for some really great people.    And you have to vote against a really terrible radical left senator named Jacky Rosen.    She does a terrible job.    We have, running, a man of the border, and I’m going to introduce you to him, but Jacky Rosen has voted with Crooked Joe Biden nearly 100% of the time.    She voted for every single inflation-causing spending bill.    And she also voted for Joe Biden’s Open Borders bill to set a minimum of two million illegal aliens per year.    So can you imagine?    They said this was a good bill, and that doesn’t include the fly-ins, and it doesn’t include all of the other people that get in.    They come in through places that we wouldn’t even believe.    They go through Snake Mountain.    Running against Wacky Jacky is an American hero named Sam Brown.    Sam Brown.    Sam Brown. ...    That was great.    I’ll tell you, you got to vote for him.    You got to vote for him.    Nobody’s been through what he has been through.    Nobody ever what he’s been through.    And he wants to put his life on the line again.    And he wants to do it for you.    And he is going to do it.    And he’s your border senator.    He’s going to be great.    And she’s the exact opposite.    She’s your open border and you don’t want open borders.    You’ve had millions of people come in right here.    They’re coming in here more than any place else now because Texas has closed it up pretty well.    But they’ve done nothing here.    You got to get it.    You got to get them in.    I also want to thank your Governor, Joe Lombardo, has been fantastic to us.    He’s been great.    And he’s right now out in the wildfires in Western Nevada, which are really taking a toll.    Joe’s been great.    And our prayers go out to every Nevada family that, every one of them that’s been forced to evacuate due to these raging fires.    They’re raging.    And we love you all.    And Governor, we thank you very much.    He’s done a fantastic job. ...    These are young guys, but they have plenty of cash, I can tell you that.    And they’re great people.    So Comrade Kamala Harris is the most radical nominee ever to seek the Oval Office.    And, you know, it was just pointed out, and the real number is 325,000 migrant children are lost.    They’re being raped or they’re being killed.    A lot of them are no longer with us.    They lost it during the last three years.    325,000 children, young children, think of it.    Never to see their parents again.    They’re either gone or they’re in the service as slaves, slaves, sex slaves or slaves.    And I just think it’s terrible.    You know, they talk about us like we’re evil people.    They lost 325,000 young kids.    Think of what that means.    Think of what that means.    As Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing us and the typical family, the typical family, $28,000.    Think of that, 28,000.    With me, it was the opposite, the exact opposite.    Days ago it was announced that we lost 438,000 full-time jobs in August.    That’s a record.    We lost almost a half a million jobs in August.    You know, they like to go around saying how well they’re doing.    They’re doing terribly.    Inflation makes everything bad anyway.    They had the highest ever.    We lost 24,000 manufacturing jobs and nearly 6,000 auto manufacturing jobs.    And I’ll tell you what, the United Auto Workers, those guys are going to vote for me.    Those guys and gals, they’re going to vote for me.    They’re going to vote for me because the auto industry is moving to Mexico, it’s moving to China, and it’s moving to other parts of the world, but not the United States.    China’s building two massive auto plants in Mexico now, and they think they’re going to build cars and put them into our country.    Not going to happen.    It’s not going to happen.    They’ve got authorization from Biden.    You know why?    Because they gave them a lot of cash.    That’s why.    And nobody talks about it.    Last month alone, American-born workers lost 1.3 million jobs as migrants gained 635,000 jobs in a single month.    You know, the jobs, almost every single job, was taken by a migrant worker.    And Black workers are losing their jobs to these people that are pouring into our country and Hispanics are losing their jobs.    And next will be unions.    Unions are going to be losing all of their power, all of their clout.    But the Black worker and the Black family, they’re losing their jobs.    Hispanics are losing their jobs.    The people that pour into our country illegally.    Now Kamala is pushing the largest individual and small business tax increase in American history.    And she said that a 70 to 80 percent tax rate is something that’s very, very doable.    “It’s a bold idea,” she said, “and it must be discussed.”    Now she changed that a little bit, but with a politician, they always go back to their original thought.    Harris and Biden waged war on American energy, opened up the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2 — that I had closed    — but shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline that I had opened.    She reentered the horribly unfair to the United States US-Paris Climate Accord.    I want it to be the Nevada Climate Accord, not the Paris.    It’s the most unfair document you’ve ever seen.    And she has always said, “I will ban fracking.” And she has always said, “I will defund the police.” Anybody—you know she was the head of the Defund the Police movement.    Anybody that was with that scam for even a week is not fit to serve as the President of the United States.    As California Attorney General, she redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of an unconscious person.    These are categories, all categories, horrible categories, but she redefined them as, in all cases, nonviolent crimes.    Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations on them without their parents’ consent.    Did you know that?    Did you know that?    Now she’ll say, “Oh no, I don’t – I never said that.” But we can put up the tapes anytime you want.    I don’t even want to show – they’re so disgusting, I don’t want to show them.    Despite the false fact check by the fake moderators, those guys at ABC Fake News.    In the debate this week, her running mate, Tampon Tim, who put tampons – who put tampons in young boys’ bathrooms.    He even signed a law that allows abortion in the ninth month.    He says abortion in the ninth month and babies to be executed after birth.    And that’s right.    And it’s happened numerous times in the states and other states too.    There are radical left states that allow that.    Nobody wants to talk about it, but they allow that, execution after birth.    But from the moment we take back the White House from Comrade Kamala Harris, I believe we are going to have the four greatest years in the history of our country.    Starting on day one, I will seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.    We will carry out the largest deportation operation of criminals in American history.    We will defeat inflation quickly and we will make America affordable again.    We’re getting your prices way down.    We will make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far.    You know I already had it above Russia and Saudi Arabia.    Then we had a terrible result in a horrible election,    an election where I got, remember, more votes than any sitting president ever by far, by millions.    We have more liquid gold under our feet than any country in the world.    Think of it.    We are standing on more liquid gold under our feet than any country in the world, and we’re going to use it.    In 12 months, I will cut your energy costs in half, and that includes heating, air conditioning, electricity, and gasoline for your car.    Right?    As part of our efforts to increase housing affordability, I will work with your governor to open up new tracks of federal land for large-scale housing construction, and you’ll get it for a much lower price.    More than 80% of all land in Nevada is owned by the federal government.    Governor Lombardo has sent three letters to the Biden-Harris administration, asking them to open up some of this land to help alleviate the crisis.    But Kamala and crooked Joe did not even have the decency to reply to those requests.    Under the Trump administration, the pleas of Nevada will be ignored no longer.    We’re going to open it up.    We’re going to open.    We’ll start with a small portion, you’ll get it going, and then we’re going to open up large portions of land.    We will create special new zones with ultra-low taxes and ultra-low regulations to allow the development of really extraordinary new housing at a proper price, while also bringing jobs and industries to Nevada.    Like the movie industry, the technology industry and the massive manufacturing plants from foreign nations will be coming into your state.    And that means jobs.    And if I pull this off, with the help of your governor, a lot of Hollywood will be moving from California because right now you don’t have the land.    Because you don’t have the land.    It’s owned by the federal government.    We’re going to open up that land to you.    You’ll be able to build studio lots and everything else.    Millions and millions of Americans will be able to take part in building these clean, safe, and beautiful new communities, reviving the frontier spirit and the American dream, something you don’t hear much about anymore.    It’s going to be done right here in Nevada.    Next, I will turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower, more than it has ever been before.    We’re going to bring back the car industry too.    We’re going to bring back the car industry, and we’re not going to let China and Mexico sell cars into the United States that are going to just take back our jobs.    They’re going to have to pay 100%, maybe a 200% tariff because we don’t want those cars.    We want to make our own cars in our country.    We’ll do it better than them.    Other countries that make us pay a tax to do business with them will be charged the same tax when they send their product into the United States.    It will be called the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act.    In other words, if China or any other country charges us a 100, 200 or 300% tax, which they actually charge, then we will charge them a 100, 200 or 300% tax in return.    Right now we charge them nothing.    My message is simple.    Make your product here in America and only in America.    That’s what we wanted.    My plan is that if you open your factory in Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or anywhere else in the United States, you don’t pay a tariff.    You don’t have to pay anything.    All you have to do is pay the workers and the workers are going to be you.    But if you move your production outside of the United States and send it back here, you’ll have to pay a massive tariff and we don’t even want your product, even if you pay it.    We are going to very quickly supercharge our country.    And when I’m back in that beautiful White House, we will pass larger tax cuts for workers and we have a special tax that here is going to do I think quite well, it’s called no tax on tips.    No tax on tips.    No tax on tips.    Did you see when I announced that a long time ago, all of a sudden she announced it and she was met with rebuke.    And you know, they can’t do it anyway, because they have so much legislation in, that make sure that you pay your tax on tips, and it didn’t go over too well.    But we are going to do it.    We’ll get it done fast.    They said they were going to cut the school lending.    When you borrow money to go to school, they were going to cut it.    They were going to cut it down to nothing.    Guess what?    A big thud.    Never happened.    It never happened.    You know why?    Because they’re all talk and no action.    And you saw that the other night at the debate.    She was all talk, I’m going to do this and I’m going to do that, and then I’m going to cut tax and then I’m going to give you 25,000 per house and then I’m going to go, over and over.    And I said very simply at the end of my last little statement, “Why haven’t you done it? You’ve been there for three and a half years. Why haven’t you done it?”    Right, Michael?    Why haven’t you done it, Michael?    Right, Michael?    Why haven’t they done it?    I said, “We will leave this debate stage, which is just a waste of time anyway. I will go with you to Washington and you can announce the closure of the border.” You know she doesn’t need a bill.    I didn’t have a bill.    I said, “We’re closing the border.” We closed the border and we had the greatest chart of all time.    You want to put up that chart if you can find it, the border chart, my all-time favorite in the history of charts.    Yeah, I love that chart.    I’m going to sleep with that chart.    That chart saved my life.    Can you believe it?    Just like that.    I said, “Put up the chart.” I went like that to look at it.    Ding.    That chart, think of it, illegal immigration saved my life.    See that?    That is the most beautiful document I’ve ever seen.    But you see the arrow on the bottom, that’s when I left office.    That’s the lowest point in the history of our country for illegal immigrants to come in, but also drugs and everything else that was coming in bad.    That point is the lowest.    And then as soon as they took over, look, it became a rocket ship.    Look at that, like a rocket ship.    And our country was destroyed.    We had it under control.    That’s the lowest point in the history.    That was done by border patrol, that chart.    But regardless of the numbers, I love that chart.    I’m sorry.    Additionally, I will fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, no cuts, and we will have no tax on social security benefits for our seniors.    No tax on social security.    And then we wheeled out a great one.    And I actually think this is going to be fantastic for the country as well as the worker because a lot of people are going to be working overtime.    And just yesterday I announced that there will be no taxes on overtime.    No taxes on overtime.    We will terminate the Green New Scam.    I call it the Green New scam, Green New Deal, Green New Scam.    It’s greatest scam.    You know what they’re going to spend?    $97 trillion.    Where are they going to get that money?    That’s more money than every country in the world has.    It’s a scam.    They were going to spend $97 trillion.    And you know the time is coming up.    Remember they said we only have 12 years to live because the environment is going to kill us, right?    That time is very close.    Somehow I’m not worried.    I am worried about nuclear because to be honest with you, we have incompetent people dealing on it.    You’re going to end up in World War III.    You’re going to have a nuclear holocaust if we’re not careful, these people have no idea.    Our people have no idea what they’re doing.    And I will keep you out of World War III.    I’m the only one that’s going to be able to do it.    But we’re going to spend all of that Green New Scam money on roads and bridges and real infrastructure and paying down debt.    We’re going to pay down debt and you know we’re going to have growth like this country has never seen before.    We’re going to get that debt way down.    We’re going to get your interest rates way down so you can buy the house, you can have the American dream.    I had interest rates at 2% and now they’re 10% and you can’t get the money.    You can’t pay the money anyway, too expensive, but you can’t get the money.    We’re not going to have fake infrastructure that’s caused massive inflation.    You know the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a fake deal, they actually said about six months ago, they never expected it to do anything for inflation.    It was a scam to get more money for the environment.    So listen to this, very important I think, you haven’t heard the word environment in seven months.    You know why?    It doesn’t play.    It doesn’t play.    We want clean air.    We want crystal clear water, beautiful water, and we want an unbelievable country, and we want an economy that’s better than it’s ever been before.    The environment isn’t playing.    They don’t mention it anymore.    With all the money they spent wasted on all this nonsense that they did, the apartment, your windows have to be smaller, preferably don’t have any windows at all.    They showed me a building, an ideal building.    I said, “What is that? Is it a bunker?”    “No, this is a building. It’s a modern building.” It had no windows.    Let’s try selling one of those apartments.    You have – not small windows, you had no windows.    Because it’s good, the sunlight doesn’t go through.    Okay, look, she’s laughing.    That’s crazy, isn’t it?    I don’t know if you’re laughing or crying.    I’m sort of crying about it.    It’s crazy.    These people are crazy.    We want a new building and they want to knock down all those beautiful buildings of Manhattan and rebuild them with no windows.    We don’t want one building in Manhattan.    I will end the chaos in the Middle East and I will settle the war in Ukraine as I will settle that as President-elect.    And remember, a vote for comrade Kamala Harris is a vote for war with Russia.    Would anybody like to be in war with Russia?    If necessary we would, but preferably not, right?    Don’t you think?    It’s also a vote to bring back the draft?    Would anybody like to be drafted in the audience?    Because that’s what they’re doing.    She’s already talking about bringing back the draft.    She wants to bring back the draft and draft your child and put them in a war that should never have happened.    Remember, Russia would’ve never attacked Ukraine ever and didn’t for four years.    And remember this, when Bush was president, he gave up a lot to Russia.    When Barack Hussein Obama was president — gave up a lot to Russia.    When Biden was president — going to give up the whole thing to Russia, it looks like.    But when Trump was president, he gave up nothing to Russia.    Zero.    I gave up nothing.    I’m the only one.    I’m the only one.    And a vote for comrade Kamala Harris is a vote to obliterate Israel and fast.    Israel is going to be blown off the face of the earth if she becomes the President of the United States.    I hate to say it, I’ve always backed Israel.    They will not have a chance if she… She went to a party instead when your prime minister came to the United States and spoke before Congress, which is a big event, she went to a sorority party instead, she found that more important.    Ready?    Israel will be blown off the face of the earth.    It will not exist if she becomes President of the United States.    If I become President of the United States, it will go on to glory.    But if she becomes President, it will be obliterated.    Just remember I said it.    A vote for President Donald J.    Trump is a vote for prosperity and peace.    We will rebuild our cities, including Washington D.C., which is a mess with graffiti all over our beautiful marble buildings, with roads that have potholes all over and medians that are falling down into the gutter.    We’re going to make those cities safe, clean, and beautiful again, and we will keep the U.S.dollar as the world’s reserve currency.    We’re losing it fast.    Nobody else will be able to do that.    We’re already missing so many.    Russia’s gone.    China essentially has gone.    China’s the one that wants to take it.    North Korea’s got… They’re all getting out.    But with me it’s different.    I’m going to say, you know what?    You want to get out?    Yes, we’re decided to get out.    We’re going to go with Russia.    We’re going to go with China.    I said, “That’s okay. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to put a 250% tariff on anything you sell us in this country.” And you know what they’re going to do?    Sir, we’ve decided that we want to stay in your currency, sir, we’re going to stay in your currency.    It won’t happen.    It won’t happen.    Just like Mexico gave us all those soldiers at our border, everyone said you could never get that.    I got it.    28,000 soldiers cash, right?    We got 28,000 soldiers to protect our border while we were building the wall.    And we got a lot of other things too.    I could go over them.    I could speak all night long about what we got.    What we’re going to get is the greatest country in the history of the world.    We’re going to bring it back.    And just in closing, this is how we will end the era of inflation, mayhem and misery under Kamala and crooked Joe, and unleash safety, prosperity, and peace for Americans of every race, religion, color, and creed.    Together we will deliver low taxes, low regulations, low energy costs, low interest rates, and low inflation so that everyone can afford groceries, a car and a home.    Very simple, isn’t it?    I saw the other night on television, a woman went up to the grocery store and put on the counter three apples.    And then she realized she didn’t have enough money for that, and she took one of the apples back.    I said, that should never happen in our country.    We’re not going to let it happen in our country, while other people get rich and while illegal migrants are staying in luxury hotels and our soldiers, our vets are sleeping on the streets at the base of those hotels, and they’re up in luxury rooms, and they came into our country illegally and many of them are very bad people.    We will stop the invasion, end migrant crime, support our police, strengthen our military, build a missile defense shield, and a lot of it is going to be built in Nevada.    We will keep critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we will keep men out of women’s sports.    I don’t know if you saw the Olympics a couple of weeks ago, a beautiful young Italian boxer, female boxer, and supposed to be very good, and she was fighting a young gentleman or a young woman.    You always have to be careful.    You know your political career could end immediately with the wrong statement.    So I’ll say one of each.    But she was fighting a person who was a man and transitioned into womanhood.    And he looked like if Muhammad Ali in his prime saw him, Muhammad would be afraid.    And the fight began, and they’re standing.    Henry would know this better than anybody, but they were standing up, and a left jab, it’s just sort of defense.    Left jab, left jab.    And he hit her with a left jab and she was, oh, oh my.    Whoa.    She got hit like a horse.    She said, “Somebody hit me. It was a horse.” And then she said, “I’ll try it again.” And she went up and he hit her again with just a left jab.    And she said, “Nope, I’m not going to do it.” He ended up winning the gold medal, went through the boxers like nothing.    There were two people in women’s boxing that transitioned.    Both of them happened to win a gold medal.    Are you surprised?    Are you surprised by that?    Are you surprised?    No, I’m not either right?    I’m not surprised.    We will defend the Second Amendment, restore free speech, and we will secure our elections.    We’re going to have to secure our elections because they cheat so badly.    Everyone will prosper.    Every family will thrive, and every day we will be filled – you know the word they used – with joy.    So I’m not going to use that word, if you don’t mind.    But opportunity and hope – we’re going to be filled with ambition.    We’re going to go out and love getting up every morning and going to work and making a lot of money.    But for that to happen, we must defeat comrade Kamala Harris, a radical left lunatic.    And we must stop her country destroying liberal agenda once and for all.    If they get in, we’re never going to be able to turn this country around.    It’s going to be Venezuela on steroids.    You’re never going to be able to do it.    So get everyone you know to vote.    We want a landslide that is too big to rig, too big to rig.    On November 5th, we will save our economy.    We will rescue our middle class.    We will reclaim our sovereignty and restore our borders like they have not been restored in a long time.    We will put America first and we will take back our country.    Together we will make America powerful again.    Make America wealthy again.    Make America healthy again.    Make America strong again.    Make America proud again.    Make America safe again.    Make America free again.    We will make America great again.    Thank you very much, Nevada.    Thank you.    Thank you very much.    Thank you everybody.    Get out and vote.    God bless you.       + Show more Ms. Harris, in her 23-minute speech, made 6 statements
			that were false, inaccurate or lacking context.   Good evening, Pennsylvania.    Good evening.    Can we please hear it for Mary-Grace?    It’s good to be back in Pennsylvania.    Hi, everyone.    Thank you.    Thank you.    Thank you.    Okay.    Okay.    We got some business to handle.    Okay.    So, let me start by saying to everyone here, thank you for all you are doing and for taking the time to be here this evening.    You know, one of the things that I love about everyone who is here and what we are doing: You know, in the midst of this moment where there are people trying to divide us as a nation, trying to make people feel small and feel alone, these are moments that remind all of us that we are all in this together as one loving community.    \We’re all in this together.    We’re all in this together.    So, thank you all for the time you’ve taken to be here this evening.    I want to thank also all the incredible leaders, including Governor Shapiro, who you heard from earlier — Senator Bob Casey, who we will reelect to the United States Senate — and Mayor Brown.    And thank you, Mayor, for the warm welcome.    All right.    So, Pennsylvania, three days ago, Donald Trump and I had our debate.    You watched it?    So — yeah.    So, here’s the thing.    So, I — I take it many people here watched it.    So, you’ll remember, that night I talked about issues that matter to families across America, like bringing down the cost of living, investing in America’s small businesses, protecting reproductive freedom — and keeping our nation safe and secure.    But that is not what we heard from Donald Trump.    Instead, it was the same old show, the same tired playbook we’ve heard for years with no plan — no plan on how he would address the needs of the American people.    Well, folks, it’s time to turn the page.    Let’s turn the page.    We’re not going back.    We’re not going back.    We’re not going back!    We’re not going back!    And we are not going back because —    We’re not going back because America is ready for a new way forward.    We are ready for a new generation of leadership that is optimistic about what we can do together, which is why — and, Mary-Grace, thank you — which is why Democrats, Republicans, and independents are supporting our campaign.    We need a president of the United States who works for all the American people  and that just stops with all the trying to divide us.    Like, people are exhausted with that stuff.    Exhausted.    And, you know, my entire career, I have fought for the people.    As a young courtroom prosecutor in Oakland, I stood up for women and children against predators who abused them.    As attorney general of California, I took on the big banks and delivered $20 billion for middle-class families who faced foreclosure.    I stood up for veterans and students being scammed by big for-profit colleges for workers who were being cheated out of the wages they were due for seniors facing elder abuse.    And as attorney general of a border state, I took on transnational criminal organizations, like the Sinaloa Cartel, that traffic in drugs and threaten the safety of our communities.    I know these cartels firsthand, and as president, I will make sure we prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law  for pushing poison like fentanyl on our children.    And as president, I will fight on behalf of all communities and all Americans.    And together, we will build a brighter future for our nation.    Together.    Together.    We’re not going back!    And that future — and that future we build will include what I call an “opportunity economy” so that every American has an opportunity to own a home, to build wealth, and to start a business.    You know, I love our small businesses.    So, growing up  I really — do we have small-business leaders here?    Raise your hand.    Yeah.    Right?    Right?    So, growing up, my sister and my mother — my sister and me had a mother — have a mother — had a mother — excuse me; she passed.    But our mother worked long hours.    She worked hard; she worked long hours.    And my sister, Maya, and I would go over to Ms.    Shelton’s house.    Ms.    Shelton lived a couple of doors down, and she helped my mother take care of us.    And we, in fact, used to call her our second mother.    Well, Ms.    Shelton was a small-business owner.    And I will tell you, since I was a child, I know the character and the — the person who is a small-business owner.    You’re not only business leaders; you’re civic leaders.    You hold the community together.    You’re part of the fabric of the community.    And small-business owners are the backbone of America’s economy.    The backbone of America’s economy.    Which is why part of my plan that you heard about the other night will give a $50,000 tax deduction to start up small businesses  knowing that not everybody, like my opponent, got handed $40 million on a silver tray and then filed for bankruptcy six times  and people sometimes just need the opportunity, because we, as Americans, do not lack for ambition, for aspiration, for dreams, for the preparedness to do hard work, but not everyone has the opportunity, because not everyone has the access.    When I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is grounded in that foundational belief that when given an opportunity, people excel every day  every day.    Part of my focus is on the fact that we need to build more housing in America.    And so, we are going to cut red tape and work with the private sector to build 3 million new homes by the end of my first term.    And I have a plan to help lower the cost of living for America’s families on everything from health care to groceries, including I will take on corporate price gouging  which, as we know, is about those few bad guys taking advantage of desperate people.    And there needs to be a consequence.    Under my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a tax cut, including — including expanding the Child Tax Credit  to $6,000 during the first year of a child’s life, understanding that new parents need support in that most critical phase of their child’s development to help them  buy a car seat, a crib, baby clothes.    I will also make sure good-paying jobs are available to all Americans, not just those with college degrees.    For far too long, our nation has encouraged only one path to success: a four-year college degree.    Our nation needs to recognize the value of other paths — additional paths, such as apprenticeships and technical programs.    So, as president, I will get rid of the unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs  to increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree, understanding that requiring a certain degree does not necessarily talk about one’s skills.    And I will challenge the private sector to do the same.    All of this to say, look, I come from the middle class.    I understand where I come from, and I’m never going to forget that.    And I will always put middle-class working people first.    It will always be my priority  always be my priority.    I know where I come from.    I know where I come from.    But now, Donald Trump has a different plan.    Just google — just — just look up the Google.    Just google Project 2025.    It is a detailed, dangerous blueprint for what he will do if he were elected president again.    Donald Trump will give billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts, like he did before.    He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.    And he wants to impose what I call the “Trump sales tax” on everyday basic necessities, which, as economists have reviewed, would cost the average family nearly $4,000 more a year.    In fact, independent economists like Goldman Sachs have said my plan would grow our economy  and his plan would shrink the economy, reignite inflation, and send us into a recession by the middle of next year.    On top of all of this, Donald Trump intends to end the Affordable Care Act.    And let’s remember —    Like, we’re not here with Trump amnesia.    We remember.    Remember, when he was president, he tried 60 times to end the Affordable Care Act.    And as he said in the debate just this week, he has no — no plan to replace it.    Right.    Right.    You said it.    He said he has, quote, “concepts of a plan” — “concepts of a plan,” no actual plan.    So, let’s — let’s just think about this for a moment.    He’s going threaten health insurance for the 45 million people who rely on it based on a concept and take us back    — when insurance companies had — but — because we remember where that was.    We remember what that was when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions.    Remember what that was like?    Remember.    Well, we are    — not going back.    We are not going back.    No.    We are not going back.    Because — because — because ours is a fight for the future.    And — and ours is a fight for freedom  like the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government telling her what to do.    And we remember how we got here.    Donald Trump handpicked three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intent that they would overturn Roe v.    Wade, and they did exactly as he intended.    And we — and we understand where we are.    We understand where we are.    Hey, listen.    Listen.    Now — now is the time to get a hostage deal and ceasefire.    I — we have been working around the clock to get that done.    And I respect your voice, but right now I am speaking.    So, on the issue — so, on the issue of fundamental rights and freedoms, we remember how he selected those members of the Supreme Court to undo Roe v.    Wade.    They did just as he intended.    And what we have seen is, in state after state, they passed laws to criminalize health care providers, to punish women.    Now, more than 20 states have a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions —    many with no exceptions for rape and incest, which is immoral.    To tell a survivor of a violation to their body that they don’t have a right to make a decision about what happens to their body next, that’s immoral.    And let us agree: One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do  not the government.    And I will tell you, when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.    Proudly.    And I’m traveling our country, and I’ll tell you, across our nation, we are witnessing a full-on assault on other hard-fought, hard-won fundamental freedoms and rights, like the freedom to vote; the freedom to be safe from gun violence; the freedom to join a union; and the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.    And generations — let’s remember who we are as Americans.    Generations before us led the fight for freedom.    And to the friends here, I say: The baton is now in our hands.    It is now in our hands.    And so much is on the line in this election.    We all know and remember.    This is not 2016 or 2020.    The stakes are even higher than they were then, because two months ago, the United States Supreme Court essentially told the former president that he will effectively be immune no matter what he does, if he gets back into the White House.    Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.    Imagine what that might mean.    Right.    He who has vowed, if reelected, he would be a dictator on day one.    He who called for the, quote, “termination” of the Constitution of the United States.    And let us be clear: Someone who suggests we should terminate the Constitution of the United States of America should never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States.    Never again.    Never again.    So, Pennsylvania, it all comes down to this.    We are here together because we love our country.    We love — we love our country.    And we who are here understand the awesome responsibility — the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on Earth: the privilege and pride of being an American.    That’s right.    And I do believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country and to fight to realize the promise of America.    So, Pennsylvania, 53 days until Election Day.    And we know ours will be a tight race until the very end.    We are the underdog.    We are the underdog.    Let’s remember that and know that.    And we know how they play.    We know how they play.    We are the underdog, and we have some very hard work ahead of us.    But here’s the thing.    We like hard work.    Hard work is good work.    And with your help, we will win.    We will win.    So, Pennsylvania, today, I ask you: Are you ready to make your voices heard?    Do we believe in freedom?    Do we believe in opportunity?    Do we believe in the promise of America?    And are we ready to fight for it?    And when we fight —    we win.    God bless you.    And God bless the United States of America.       Though their speeches in the next month will likely vary — Mr. Trump’s especially, given his habit of ditching prepared remarks for preferred tangents — they are expected to follow the same familiar contours.Here’s a fact-check of their speeches from two rallies in September.   Trump’s speech
		(64) Harris’s speech
		(6)  23 False  polling “Every poll had us up like 90, 92, 87. We had a, uh — we actually had one, 92 to six, which sounds about right.” No reputable poll has Mr. Trump leading Ms. Harris 90 percent to 10 percent. On the day he spoke, Sept. 13, Ms. Harris led by nearly three points in The New York Times’s polling average. immigration “I’m angry about Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora, Colo.” A number of Venezuelan migrants, including some engaged in criminal activity, have taken up residence in dilapidated apartment buildings in Aurora, but they have not “taken over” the entire city. “I’m angry about illegal Haitian migrants taking over Springfield, Ohio.” Thousands of Haitian migrants are residing in Springfield, but most are there legally. “And the Colorado governor is petrified. He’s scared. He doesn’t know what to do. ‘The Venezuelans are attacking my state,’ he said. ‘The Venezuelans have big AK-47 Supremes.’ This is Supreme. Where the hell do they get these guns? Our soldiers can’t get these guns. They’re taking over our country from within, I mean, can you believe?” Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado has not said this. The Republican mayor of Aurora had said certain buildings — not the city, much less the whole state — had “fallen” to gangs, but he has since said suggestions that the city was unsafe were exaggerated.  “She wants open borders” Ms. Harris had a more lenient approach to illegal immigration in 2019, but has taken a more aggressive stance since becoming vice president and since the start of this campaign. She supports increased border security and asylum restrictions if border crossings are too numerous. “But you see the arrow on the bottom, that’s when I left office. That’s the lowest point in the history of our country for illegal immigrants to come in, but also drugs and everything else that was coming in bad. That point is the lowest.”  “That’s the lowest point in the history.” The arrow on the chart was actually pointing to a dip in early 2020, not during his last week in office. That low did not last, nor was it the lowest point in history. attacks on harris “She was the first one that failed. Out of all the candidates, I think they had 22.” Ms. Harris’s exit from the 2020 primary race was preceded by a dozen other Democrats'. “It indicates that she is a communist comrade, because she is.”  “She’s a Marxist, communist, fascist person, which is … She’s a fascist. Who the hell ever thought we'd be voting for a communist for president? She is. Look at her record.” Ms. Harris’s campaign has said she is a capitalist. She has the support of many executives, and she has not proposed to seize the means of production. “Now Kamala is pushing the largest individual and small-business tax increase in American history.” Ms. Harris has proposed tax increases for the wealthy and large corporations, which would not amount to the “largest” ever. And she has promised to not raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000. “Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex-change operations on them without their parents’ consent.” Surgical procedures for minors receiving gender-affirming care require parental consent. Ms. Harris has not said she supports changing state laws. “She’s already talking about bringing back the draft. She wants to bring back the draft and draft your child and put them in a war that should never have happened.” Ms. Harris has not. The Trump campaign told PolitiFact he was referring to a Democratic senator’s proposal to require women to register for the draft; it would not restore the draft. crime “I said that crime was up massively. I didn’t want to go into the details. What’s the purpose? Crime was up massively.” Violent crime, after increasing during the coronavirus pandemic, has since declined and remains at a decades-low. economy “They said they had 818,000 jobs, and it was a fraud.” In late August, the Labor Department corrected its jobs data from the 12 months that ended in March 2024, noting that there were 818,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. This was not "fraud," but rather a regular occurrence as statisticians reconcile different data sources. Claimed that a correction to official jobs data came before the election only because of a whistle-blower, who said “it was a total fraud.” + Show full quote There is no “whistle-blower” or leaker, nor did the Labor Department try to delay its numbers update until the end of the election. The agency announced in July that it would release its preliminary 12-month revision in August — the same timeline it has followed in recent years. In August 2019, the agency’s revision reported half a million fewer jobs. “Inflation makes everything bad anyway. They had the highest ever.” Inflation was higher in the 1970s and the 1980s. “The auto industry is moving to Mexico, it’s moving to China and it’s moving to other parts of the world, but not the United States.” Car markers have invested tens of billions of dollars for manufacturing expansions and new factories — largely for electric vehicle and battery production — in the United States under the Biden administration, The Wall Street Journal reported. “China’s building two massive auto plants in Mexico now, and they think they’re going to build cars and put them into our country. Not going to happen. It’s not going to happen. They’ve got authorization from Biden.” Mr. Biden has no control over China’s decision to build auto factories in Mexico. Chinese companies are, in fact, taking advantage of a trade deal negotiated by Mr. Trump. “You know, the jobs, almost every single job, was taken by a migrant worker.” The number of native-born workers and foreign-born workers have both increased by millions under the Biden administration. social issues “He even signed a law that allows abortion in the ninth month. He says abortion in the ninth month and babies to be executed after birth. And that’s right. And it’s happened numerous times in the states and other states, too. There are radical left states that allow that. Nobody wants to talk about it, but they allow that, execution after birth.” Minnesota allows abortion at any stage of pregnancy. But abortion after birth is infanticide, which is illegal in Minnesota and every other state. domestic policy “Gov. Lombardo has sent three letters to the Biden-Harris administration, asking them to open up some of this land to help alleviate the crisis. But Kamala and Crooked Joe did not even have the decency to reply to those requests.” In his latest letter requesting more federal land for housing development, Joe Lombardo, Nevada’s Republican governor, acknowledged that the Bureau of Land Management responded to his letters on behalf of the Biden administration and that he has had “productive” meetings with the Interior Department. The administration also opened up public land in Nevada to build as many as 15,000 additional housing units. “They said they were going to cut the school lending. When you borrow money to go to school, they were going to cut it. They were going to cut it down to nothing. Guess what? A big thud. Never happened. It never happened. You know why? Because they’re all talk and no action.” The Biden administration’s plans to eliminate student loan debt for millions of Americans have hit legal roadblocks, but the efforts have canceled the debt of 4.75 million people.    6 Lack Evidence  attacks on harris “I also heard she had something in — the ear, a little something in the ear. ‘No, Kamala, do this. Say it this way, Kamala. OK, be quiet. Too many people watching.’” This was a reference to baseless internet rumors that earrings Ms. Harris wore during the debate on Sept. 10 resembled earrings with embedded audio equipment. There are clear differences between the two, and Ms. Harris appeared to be wearing a pair of pearl earrings from Tiffany’s. immigration “Millions and millions of illegal aliens are coming in from all over the world, from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and many terrorists, at numbers that we’ve never seen before — terrorists are coming into our country.” The Trump campaign has yet to provide evidence for this claim, and immigration experts could not corroborate it, either. Claimed that the Biden administration “lost” 325,000 migrant children, many of whom were killed or trafficked. + Show full quote Mr. Trump is wildly distorting a number from a recent inspector general report. This figure includes both some 32,000 migrant children who did not appear for court hearings as well as nearly 300,000 others who were not required to from the 2019 to 2023 fiscal years. There is no evidence that all of these children were “lost,” “killed” or trafficked.  Moreover, about half of that time — the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years, and part of the 2021 fiscal year — occurred under the Trump administration. 
 democratic rivals “You know why? Because they gave them a lot of cash. That’s why. And nobody talks about it.” There is no evidence that President Biden received money from China related to his son’s business dealings.  social issues “But she was fighting a person who was a man and transitioned into womanhood.”  “There were two people in women’s boxing that transitioned. Both of them happened to win a gold medal.” There were questions surrounding the gender eligibility of two boxers from Algeria and Taiwan during the Olympics, but the organizing committee has said neither is transgender and both were born as women.    15 Misleading  crime Claimed that “real numbers” and “brand-new data” show that violent crime was up 40 percent nationally. + Show full quote Mr. Trump was cherrypicking a federal survey released in 2022, PolitiFact reported. Another crime report from the F.B.I. showed that crime had decreased during that time, and every federal and nongovernmental report since then has shown a decline. immigration Claimed that the Biden administration was “flying in” unauthorized migrants to obscure the number of border crossings. + Show full quote  “Over the past three and a half years, Harris and Biden have resettled a half a million illegal migrants from Haiti, including over 200,000 that she has flown into the United States by very beautiful airplanes.” As of August, nearly  530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans had traveled to the United States via commercial flights. But these are lawful migrants who were processed under a program that granted citizens of those countries temporary legal status.  “Could you believe we have phone apps? You know where they go to? The cartels. The cartels have apps where they call in so they know where to deposit their illegal people that, and they’re making billions.”  “But they have an app. An app where they call so they know where they can illegally drop these people.” It is unclear what Mr. Trump is referring to. But the mobile app in question, CBP One, is a tool created by the Biden administration — not the cartels — to allow migrants to make appointments with immigration officials before entering the United States and seeking asylum.  “And she also voted for Joe Biden’s open borders bill to set a minimum of two million illegal aliens per year.” The border deal, which failed in the Senate, did not permit a “minimum” number of migrants to enter the United States. It triggered a mechanism to shut down the border to those claiming asylum if crossings reached a certain threshold.  “I didn’t have a bill. I said, ‘We’re closing the border.’ We closed the border” Mr. Trump’s attempts to “close the border” via executive order were routinely thwarted by courts and Congress. Unauthorized crossings only ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic, when migration slowed, and after his administration put in place a public health emergency order. economy “Days ago, it was announced that we lost 438,000 full-time jobs in August. That’s a record.” The economy added 142,000 jobs in August in total, but 438,000 fewer people reported working full time while 527,000 more people reported working part time. That was not a record, even discounting pandemic-era monthly fluctuations. In August 2018, 509,000 fewer people reported working full time. “Last month alone, American-born workers lost 1.3 million jobs as migrants gained 635,000 jobs in a single month.” The number of native-born workers declined by 1.3 million from August 2023 to August 2024 — not over the course of a single month. Moreover, these figures omit that the native-born work force has declined, as people retire or stop searching for jobs, while the foreign-born work force has increased.  “And Black workers are losing their jobs to these people that are pouring into our country and Hispanics are losing their jobs.” There is some debate over the effect that migrants have had on wages, particularly those of Black and Hispanic workers. But both groups have seen job growth in recent years. attacks on harris “And she said that a 70 to 80 percent tax rate is something that’s very, very doable. ‘It’s a bold idea,’ she said, ‘and it must be discussed.’” Ms. Harris said that the proposal was worth discussing, but did not endorse it. She added, “When we are able to defend the status quo, then do it.” Claimed that Ms. Harris, as California’s attorney general, redefined several “horrible” crimes as nonviolent. + Show full quote Mr. Trump was referring to — and hyperbolically extracting from — a description of a ballot initiative provided by Ms. Harris’s office when she was California’s attorney general. In that role, Ms. Harris did not redefine those crimes as nonviolent. energy “Harris and Biden waged war on American energy, opened up the Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2, that I had closed.” The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Russian pipeline that delayed its construction, but work on it restarted while he was still president. It has never been operational. “We will make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far. You know I already had it above Russia and Saudi Arabia. Then we had a terrible result in a horrible election.” The United States overtook Russia and Saudi Arabia as the top producer of oil in 2018. It remains the top producer. elections “Then we had a terrible result in a horrible election, an election where I got, remember, more votes than any sitting president ever by far, by millions.” Mr. Trump received 74 million votes in the 2020 presidential election. While that is the most ever cast for a sitting president, Mr. Trump omits that the voting population of the United States has also grown and even more people, 81 million, voted for his opponent. By a percentage, Mr. Trump received 47 percent of the votes — lower than President Barack Obama’s 51 percent in 2012, President George W. Bush’s 50.7 percent in 2004 and President Bill Clinton’s 49.2 percent in 1996.     16 Exaggerated  polling “Because now today, Rasmussen just came up, and we were six points up.” In Rasmussen’s most recent poll at the time, released the day before Mr. Trump spoke, he led Ms. Harris by two points. “He was down 21 points.” When President Biden dropped out of the race in July, he was trailing Mr. Trump by a few percentage points in polls, not more than 20. immigration “We got 21 million people that came into our country, invading our communities, invading our cities and our towns, and destroying our country.”  “She has already let in 21 million people and if she gets four more years in America, our country will be obliterated.” Officials have recorded more than 10 million unauthorized “encounters” at the southwestern border under the Biden administration. That includes a large number of repeat offenders and more than four million people who were quickly turned away.  “And now we have thousands and thousands and thousands of terrorists coming into our country.” Officials reported 172 encounters of individuals whose names triggered matches with the F.B.I.’s terrorism watch list trying to cross the southern and northern borders in the 2023 fiscal year, and 102 in the 2024 fiscal year so far. attacks on harris “You know that she’s further left than crazy Bernie Sanders?” GovTrack, a service that monitors Congress, ranked Ms. Harris as the most liberal senator of 2019. But she was the second-most liberal senator in 2020, behind Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the fourth-most liberal in 2018 and the eighth-most liberal in 2017, her first year in Congress.  “They’re going to take away your guns, you saw that, they’re going to take away your guns. She’s going to take away your guns.” Ms. Harris supported a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons — not all guns — during her 2020 primary campaign. But she no longer holds that position. “And she has always said, ‘I will defund the police.’ Anybody — you know she was the head of the defund-the-police movement.” Ms. Harris supported “reimagining” public safety during the 2020 Democratic primary, but she stopped short of wanting to eliminate police departments. energy “And she has always said, ‘I will ban fracking.’”  “There’ll never be fracking in Pennsylvania.” Ms. Harris supported a ban on fracking in 2019, but reversed course in 2020 as Mr. Biden’s running mate. economy “She voted for every single inflation-causing spending bill.” Economists generally agree that recent government spending has contributed to inflation, but they disagree on how big of an effect it has had. Moreover, that also includes spending by the Trump administration.  “As vice president, Harris cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing us and the typical family, the typical family, $28,000.” The $28,000 figure refers to a calculation by Republican lawmakers on the Joint Economic Committee of the rise of average household costs since January 2021. While Ms. Harris cast a tiebreaking vote to help the American Rescue Plan move forward, the law was not solely responsible for the inflation since January. “I call it the Green New Scam, Green New Deal, Green New Scam. It’s greatest scam. You know what they’re going to spend? $97 trillion. Where are they going to get that money? That’s more money than every country in the world has. It’s a scam. They were going to spend $97 trillion.” The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution for tackling climate change. One conservative group estimated that it would cost up to $93 trillion over 10 years, but economists have said the plan is too vague to put a price tag on, FactCheck.org has reported. Global gross domestic product exceeded $100 trillion in 2022.  “I had interest rates at 2 percent, and now they’re 10 percent and you can’t get the money.” The Federal Reserve set interest rates at around 2 percent during Mr. Trump’s presidency, before the coronavirus pandemic, but rates never exceeded 6 percent under Mr. Biden. Average mortgage rates too reached a high of 7.63 percent in November 2023, but hovered at 3 to 4 percent in the months before the pandemic.  “You know the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a fake deal, they actually said about six months ago, they never expected it to do anything for inflation. It was a scam to get more money for the environment.” The Biden administration and Democrats put forth the bill to address inflation, but they also emphasized that it would tackle climate change, reduce health care costs and cut the deficit. Economists do generally agree that the law did little to reduce inflation.  democratic rivals “Tampon Tim, who put tampons — who put tampons in young boys’ bathrooms.” A state law requires schools in Minnesota, where Ms. Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, is the governor, to provide menstrual products to students free of charge, but it does not mandate placing them in boy’s bathrooms.    4 Need Context  project 2025 “Project 2025, I’ve said a hundred times, I know nothing about it. I had nothing to do.” Project 2025 is a set of conservative policy proposals. It did not come from Mr. Trump or his campaign, but his campaign and the project share many overlaps in policy and personnel. immigration “If you look at 2019, and I disagree with this, really, even though it’s good for me — they said in the year 2019, not one terrorist. There’s an official definition of that, but you don’t want to hear it. Not one terrorist came in. That was my year, 2019, one of my years. Not one terrorist came into the country. Now, I sort of can’t believe that. But it was pretty close, it was pretty close.” Officials reported no encounters of individuals whose names triggered matches with the F.B.I.’s terrorism watch list — an expansive list that also includes affiliates and family members — at the southern border in the 2019 fiscal year. But they did record three encounters at the northern border. attacks on harris “She went to a party instead when your prime minister came to the United States and spoke before Congress, which is a big event. She went to a sorority party instead — she found that more important.” Ms. Harris addressed a sorority’s convention on July 24, the day the Israeli prime minister addressed Congress. But she met with the prime minister the next day. social issues “Do you know that she wanted to have transgender surgery on illegal aliens that came into our country that were in jail?” In a response to a questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019, Ms. Harris said she supported access to gender-affirming care for people in prisons and immigration detention. Ms. Harris’s campaign said this month, though, that “that questionnaire is not what she is proposing or running on.”        


On Sept. 26, a claim was added from Ms. Harris's speech.Note: The length of Mr. Trump’s speaking time and the transcript of his speech shown at the top do not include the time that Mr. Trump took to introduce guest speakers or the time that the guests spent speaking. The total duration of Mr. Trump’s onstage appearance at the Las Vegas rally was one hour and 20 minutes.Additional work by Michael Gold, Taylor Robinson and Ama Sarpomaa.See more on: 2024 Elections: News, Polls and Analysis, Donald Trump, Kamala HarrisShare full articleAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSite IndexSite Information Navigation© 2025 The New York Times CompanyNYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioYour Ad ChoicesPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapCanadaInternationalHelpSubscriptionsManage Privacy Preferences



















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