Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris

[Jilly_in_VA]

US elections 2024
Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris
Ex-president quickly broke away from prepared speech to accuse vice-president of being a communist and a fascist

Chris McGreal in Wilkes-Barre
Sat 17 Aug 2024 19.49 EDT
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Donald Trump tried to reset his campaign at a rally in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday as polls show Kamala Harris pulling ahead in key swing states.

But the former president quickly broke away from the prepared speech about economic issues to launch personal attacks on Harris including accusations that her agenda is both communist and fascist, and that she has “the laugh of a crazy person”.

Trump’s written speech before a mostly filled 8,000-seat indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre focussed on economic policy, although a part of the audience left before he finished speaking. Some Republican strategists had hoped the former president could regain the initiative by zeroing in on issues which opinion polls say voters have greater trust in Trump than the Democrats, such as inflation.

Trump attacked Harris as part of the Biden administration for the surge in prices that has hit many Americans hard and described increased household costs as “the Kamala Harris inflation tax”.

“She was there for everything,” he said in attempting to pin Biden’s policies on her.

Trump also likened Harris’s pledge on Friday to tackle high grocery costs by targeting profiteering by food corporations, and to bring down housing and prescription drug costs, to the Soviet Union’s economic system.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/17/trump-pennsylvania-rally

Make up your mind, dumbass. I do not think either word means what you think it means. You just call names to be calling names, and you can't stay on script for 5 seconds.

[GreenWave]

1. A communist and a fascist. How did that work out in WWII? Apparently they do not mix well.

Date 22 June 1941 – 5 December 1941
(5 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Location

Central EuropeNortheast EuropeEastern EuropeMainly the Soviet Union

Result Axis strategic failure
Territorial
changes Axis captured approximately 600,000 sq mi (1,600,000 km2) of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line

Belligerents

Nazi Germany Germany[a]
Romania
Finland
Italy
Hungary
Slovakia

Soviet Union

Commanders and leaders

Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany Wilhelm Keitel
Nazi Germany Alfred Jodl
Nazi Germany Walther von Brauchitsch
Nazi Germany Franz Halder
Nazi Germany Hermann Göring
Nazi Germany Hans Jeschonnek
Nazi Germany Fedor von Bock
Nazi Germany Gerd von Rundstedt
Nazi Germany Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Kingdom of Romania Ion Antonescu
Finland C.G.E. Mannerheim

Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov
Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov
Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov
Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny
Soviet Union Pavel Zhigarev
Soviet Union Markian Popov
Soviet Union Fyodor Kuznetsov
Soviet Union Dmitry Pavlov Executed
Soviet Union Andrey Yeremenko
Soviet Union Mikhail Kirponos †
Soviet Union Ivan Tyulenev

Units involved
Axis armies:

Soviet armies:
Strength

Frontline strength (22 June 1941) AXIS

3.8 million personnel[1][2]
3,350–3,795 tanks[3][1][4][5]
3,030–3,072 other AFVs[6]
2,770–5,369 aircraft[3][7]
7,200–23,435 artillery pieces[1][3][5]
17,081 mortars[5]
600,000 horses[8]
600,000 vehicles[8]



Frontline strength (22 June 1941) USSR

2.6–2.9 million personnel[9][10]
11,000 tanks[11][12]
7,133–9,100 military aircraft[13][14][15]

Casualties and losses

Total military casualties:
1,000,000+[c]
Breakdown


Total military casualties:
4,500,000