Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz He used some of his most acerbic language of the campaign on Thursday, in remarks aimed at both former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
At a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Walz borrowed a phrase from Josh Shapiro, the state’s Democratic governor, saying that “every time Donald Trump talks about America, he talks about America.”
Shapiro has repeatedly said Trump is “running roughshod” over the country, which Walz acknowledged when he paraphrased the Pennsylvania governor.
Walz, who was first elected governor of Minnesota in 2018, went on to say that Trump got his “ass kicked fairly and lost” in the last election and that he “tried to violently overthrow our democratic government.”
Reached for comment, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said Walz “set his state on fire during the riots and has devastated its citizens since becoming governor. He and Kamala Harris are weak, failed and dangerously liberal.”
Trump has falsely claimed for years that he won the 2020 election, although he recognized In a podcast episode released Tuesday, he said he lost the race “narrowly.” He has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges costs linked to efforts to overturn the election results and has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
On Thursday, Walz also called the Republican Party a “cult.”
“This country needs two functioning political parties, at least,” he said. “We don’t need one, a sect on the other side, we don’t need that.”
The Minnesota governor’s comments come less than a week before the first debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Walz and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio are scheduled to debate each other on Oct. 1.
Democrats and Republicans are locked in a bitter battle over Pennsylvania, a state that President Joe Biden flipped blue in 2020 by a landslide. narrow margin — with 50% of the vote against 48.8% for Trump. In 2016, Trump narrowly beaten Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won 48.6 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 47.9 percent.
National polls indicate that Harris and Trump are locked in a tight race, much of which will likely come down to a handful of key battleground states like Pennsylvania.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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