Former President Donald Trump addressed a swath of issues at his Saturday night rally in Philadelphia — where he repeatedly claimed the US was at its “worst” moment in history.
The presidential candidate’s comments to the cheering crowd largely centered on the ongoing migrant crisis, which he linked to a rise in crime and a decrease in jobs.
“We had the safest border in the history of our country. Now we have the unsafest border in the history of the world,” Trump told the crowd at the Liacouras Center.
The GOP frontrunner focused on the murder case of Rachel Morin as proof that migrants are wreaking havoc on the US — police believe the Maryland mother of five was raped and slaughtered by a Salvadorian migrant on the run after killing another girl in his native country.
According to Trump, even non-violent migrants pose a danger to the nation’s security. He claimed they are stealing jobs, an issue that disproportionately affects black Americans.
President Joe Biden has exacerbated the issue by allowing inflation to run rampant under Bidenomics, Trump continued, promising to replace the latter plan with “MAGA-omics.”
“I believe it’s the worst inflation the country’s ever had,” he said.
“To stop Biden-flation, I will end crooked Joe’s wasteful spending and rapidly terminate the green new scam.”
Trump’s visit to the Liacouras Center — the 10,200-seat North Philly arena home to Temple University basketball and various other events — comes as polls show him opening up a narrow lead over President Biden in Pennsylvania.
A Marist College poll released last week found voters in Biden’s birth state prefer the former prez to the incumbent by 2 percentage points (47% to 45%).
Earlier Saturday, Trump visited the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington DC to brag about his involvement in overturning Roe v. Wade.