Trump mixes somber remembrance with heated rhetoric in his return to Butler

Former President Donald Trump set the stage for a bruising final month of the presidential campaign during a return visit to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman attempted to assassinate him this summer.

The trip was Trump’s latest to the Keystone State, which is shaping up to be the most pivotal in this election cycle. As the rally was ongoing, Trump’s campaign announced two additional Pennsylvania events the president would appear at in the coming days.

Speaking before one of his larger rally crowds of the cycle, Trump attacked Democratic leaders for the federal response to Hurricane Helene, baselessly suggested that the party was working to steal the upcoming election from him and repeatedly went after Vice President Kamala Harris for saying in a 2019 ACLU questionnaire that she supported taxpayer funding of gender transition care for immigrants in federal detention facilities.