Trump warns of a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses in November
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MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVINMarch 16, 2024
Former President Trump claimed he won’t protect President Biden’s Social Security benefits and warned of a bloodbath if he loses in November while campaigning for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
Trump spoke at a windswept airport outside dayton on saturday, praising his chosen candidate in the
Senate
“race like an America’s first champion” and a political outsider who has spent his life building communities in Ohio.”
He will be a warrior in Washington,” Trump said, days after securing enough delegates to capture the 2024 Republican nomination.
presidential
lecture.
Moreno faces
Ohio
Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Senator Matt Dolan during the Republican Party primaries Tuesday. LaRose and Moreno have joined the party’s pro-Trump faction, while Dolan is backed by more establishment Republicans, including the GOP. Mike DeWine and former Senator Rob Portman.
Saturday’s rally was organized by Buckeye Values PAC, a group that supports Moreno’s candidacy. But Trump used the podium to deliver a profanity-filled version of his usual rally speech, which again painted an apocalyptic picture of the country if Biden wins a second term.
If I don’t get elected, it will be a bloodbath. …It will be a bloodbath for the country, he warned while talking about the impact of offshoring on the
American countries
auto industry and its plans to raise tariffs on foreign-made cars.
Trump later claimed
That
“If this election isn’t won, I’m not sure there will ever be another election in this country.”
Trump repeatedly noted that he had difficulty reading
are
teleprompters, which could be seen
visible
at a speed of 35 miles per hour
wind
gusts of wind.
A one-time Trump critic,
Moreno, a wealthy businessman from Cleveland
and who was once a Trump critic
endorsed Marco Rubio for president in the 2016 Republican primaries.
He once tweeted that listening to Trump was like watching a car crash that makes you sick, but you can stop watching.
In 2021, NBC News reported on an email exchange
by
around the time of Trump’s first presidential run, which Moreno referred to
he Trump
like a madman and a maniac.
On Saturday, however, Moreno praised Trump as a great American and railed against those in his party who criticized the former president, who became president this week.
his party is the
presumptive candidate for a third election in a row.
“I’m so tired of Republicans saying: I support President Trump’s policies, but I don’t like the man.”
Moreno hey
he said as he stood on stage with Trump.
Trump,
in the meantime yes
Rejected recent allegations against Moreno and compared them to attacks he has faced over the years, including his criminal charges.
Trump has been charged in four cases
different
cases involving his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
He is currently receiving very harsh bogus treatment from the Democrats, Trump said. And we didn’t stand for that.”
The Associated Press reported Thursday that someone with access to Moreno’s work email account had created a profile on an adult website in 2008, looking for men for one-on-one sex.
Certainly
confirm that it was made by Moreno himself. Moreno’s attorney said a former intern created the account and provided a statement from the intern, Dan Ricci, who said he created the account as part of a juvenile prank.
Questions about the profile have been circulating in Republican circles over the past month, leading to frustration among senior Republican operatives over Moreno’s potential vulnerability in a general election, according to seven people directly familiar with conversations about how to handle the issue. They requested anonymity to avoid clashing with Trump and his allies.
Trump also accused Biden of posing a threat to Social Security in his comments as he continued to clean up comments from an interview
earlier
this week, during which he appeared open to cuts.
Your social security will disappear, even though he warned of a second Biden term
the president Biden
has pledged to protect and strengthen social security as the country faces a projected budget deficit. With this man in office you cannot get social security because he is destroying our country’s economy. And that includes Medicare, by the way, and American seniors are going to be in big trouble.
I have promised that I will always adhere to Social Security and Medicare. We will always keep it. We will never cut it off,
Trump
said.
The comments came after Trump answered a question about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in an interview with CNBC by saying:
That,
There’s a lot you can do in terms of rights, in terms of cutting corners and also in terms of theft and poor rights management, massively bad rights management. There’s a huge amount of stuff and a huge number of things you can do.”
Trump
So
continued to criticize Biden over his handling of the border and the migrant crisis.
And hi too
addressed Dolan and called him a weak RINO
a
Republican in name only and accused him of trying to become the next Mitt Romney.” He
So
criticized the Dolan family, owners of the Cleveland baseball team, for changing their name from the
Cleveland
Indians to the
Cleveland
Guards.
Trump was joined at the meeting by Ohio Senator JD Vance and the governor of South Dakota. Kristi Noem, who did
both
stumbled over Moreno and is considered a potential vice presidential candidate.
Trump’s decision to endorse Moreno was a major blow to LaRose, who suffered it
a number of
steps to win his favor. Just days after entering the Senate race, LaRose endorsed Trump for president, reversing an earlier position that the state elections chief should remain politically neutral. The following month, he fired a longtime aide after old tweets surfaced in which the aide criticized Trump.
The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face third-term Sen. Sherrod Brown, considered one of the country’s most vulnerable Democrats, in November.
Brown, first elected in 2006 and unchallenged in his primary this year, has managed to keep his seat even as the state has shifted to the right. In his most recent re-election, in 2018, he defeated then-Rep. Jim Renacci with almost 7 percentage points.
Two years later, Ohio voted 8 points ahead of then-President Trump.
Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer Brian Slodysko contributed to this report.___Meg Kinnard can be reached at
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