BOZEMAN, MT — At his rally tonight, Trump continued to peddle a conspiracy that President Joe Biden, who dropped his reelection bid in July, will re-enter the race during the Democratic National Convention later this month in Chicago.
“I hear he’s going to make a comeback at the Democrat convention. He’s going to walk into the room and he’s going to say, ‘I want my presidency back. I want another chance to debate Trump. I want another chance,’” Trump said.
He also cast Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as far-left, telling the crowd that Walz ordered tampons be provided in boys’ bathrooms.
“He ordered tampons to be put into boys’ bathrooms. Do we have any children here? Please close your ears. He ordered tampons in boys’ bathrooms, OK?”
Last year, Walz signed a law that requires period supplies like pads and tampons to be provided in public school bathrooms for 4th to 12th grade students. According to the text of the law, free menstrual products should be provided to “all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district.”
While promoting Montana’s GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, Trump repeatedly criticized incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, calling him “one of the biggest phonies in American politics,” saying that “he’s got the biggest stomach I have ever seen,” and tying him to Democrats like President Biden, Vice President Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont who regularly caucuses with Democrats.
Trump continued to tie Harris to concerns about immigration, a salient issue for Republicans even in states far from the southern border. He referenced a 2022 incident in Bozeman, where an undocumented immigrant fatally stabbed a man.
“Under the so-called border czar Harris, illegal aliens are stampeding into America by the millions and millions,” Trump said. “Every day, Kamala is letting migrant criminals roam free to assault, rape, mutilate and kill our citizens.”
In Trump’s first rally since Harris announced Walz as her running mate, he made an apparent reference to criticism the Minnesota governor has faced over the timing of his departure from the National Guard, while praising Sheehy’s military service.
“He’s highly successful, great education, purple heart recipient, a former Navy SEAL, which is, you know, a big deal. It’s a tough thing to be. A combat veteran at the highest level, a Bronze Star. And he’s got a — his really is valor,” Trump said. “It’s valor for heroism award. You know, the other one talks about valor. He has a different kind of a valor. It’s the opposite.”
At one point, Trump called for a doctor to assist someone in the audience and momentarily paused his remarks, but it was not immediately clear what was wrong with the attendee.
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