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Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump was on Saturday in Pennsylvania and he wasn’t done with the state of the battlefield yet. As Trump announced on Saturday, he will hold a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The former president will likely criticize the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the southern border and inflation.

“With prices rising more than 20 percent and real wages falling since Kamala Harris took office, Pennsylvanians are struggling to make ends meet,” the Trump-Vance campaign press release reads in part. “Meanwhile, tens of millions of illegal immigrants have flooded our country in front of Kamala, worsening already sky-high rent and real estate costs.”

The rally will take place at the Santander Arena on Penn Street, Reading; event doors will open at 15:00 According to the Trump-Vance campaign, the former president is scheduled to deliver a speech at 19:00

If re-elected, Trump said he would secure the country’s borders and protect American workers from unfair competition, making America “safe, rich and great again,” according to a press release from the Trump-Vance campaign.

The Harris-Walz Pennsylvania campaign team released a statement regarding the former president’s upcoming visit to Berks County.

“As president, Trump has eliminated more than 275,000 workers in the commonwealth, given handouts to his ultra-wealthy friends at our expense, and tried to deprive us of health care,” read a statement from Onotse Omoyeni, Pennsylvania’s director of rapid response at Harris for President. partly. “A second term would be even worse: He would raise costs by almost $4,000 and give more donations to the super-rich and large corporations, while trying to cut our Social Security and Medicare.”

On Saturday, Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, for the first time since his visit almost murdered almost three months ago. Trump paid tribute during the rally firefighter Corey Comperatorewho died in an attack on July 13 while trying to protect his family from bullets.

The former president also praised the Secret Service for its protection during the attack. Billionaire Elon Musk also joined the former president on stage and called the 2024 elections “the most important of our lives.”

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc. (right), speaks on stage with former U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign event during the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. Republican Party candidate Donald Trump rallies supporters at the site of the July assassination attempt , then returned to his headquarters in Pennsylvania, where a gunman’s bullet pierced his ear and thwarted his presidential campaign. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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