LADY IS A TRUMP CARD
WASHINGTON: First Lady Melania Trump hit the campaign trail for her husband to the delight of his supporters, as both candidates insisted they would win next week’s US presidential election.
While a record of almost 70 million Americans have already cast their votes, neither side has given up.
Donald Trump toured three battleground states and promised that a “red wave” of enthusiasm would deliver a win to Republicans.
“We’ll take back the House, we’ll hold the Senate, we’ll hold the White House,” he said to loud applause.
Mr Biden held a drive- in car rally in normally conservative Georgia, where he labelled Mr Trump a “conman” and said the state was within the Democrats’ reach for the first time since 1992.
As legal challenges continued in some states over how long ballots could be counted past poll day, Mr Trump again called for a result on election night.
“It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and I don’t believe that that’s by our laws,” Mr Trump said.
Mrs Trump made her campaign debut relatively late in
the race, but she charmed a small crowd of 300 Trump supporters with a joke about her mercurial husband and defended his social media use.
“I don’t always agree the way he says things, but it is important to him that he speaks directly to the people he serves,” she said at a rally in Pennsylvania.
“Donald is a fighter. He loves this country and he fights for you every single day. For the first time in history, the citizens of this country get to hear directly and instantly from their President every single day through social media.”
Sharing her family’s experience with COVID, Mrs Trump slammed the Demo
crats for trying to impeach the President just as the pandemic reached the US.
“We are all feeling so much better now thanks to healthy living and some of the amazing therapeutic options available,” she said.
“Let us also not forget what the Democrats chose to focus on when COVID- 19 first came into our country.
“While the President was taking decisive actions to keep the American people safe, the Democrats were wasting taxpayer dollars in a sham impeachment.”
In Georgia, Mr Biden told his rally the reason for his surprise visit: “There aren’t a lot of pundits who would have guessed four years ago that a
Democratic candidate for president in 2020 would be campaigning in Georgia in the final week of the election,” he said to loud cheers and honks from the cars.
“Or that we’d have such competitive Senate races in Georgia. But we do because something is happening here in Georgia — and right across America.
“People of different races, backgrounds, Democrats, Republicans, independents, they’re coming together to transcend the old divides and show what’s possible.”
Earlier, the Trump 2020 campaign website was briefly hacked by an opponent of the President, blaming him for the coronavirus pandemic.