Trump tells New York rally that Harris is the threat to democracy, not him: Live

Trump said he would visit Springfield, Ohio as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.

“How about in Springfield, Ohio, they had 32,000 – This is a little beautiful town, no crime, no problem – 32,000 illegal immigrants come into the town,” Trump said. “So they almost double their population in a period of a few weeks. Can you believe it? And you know what? They’ve got to get much tougher. I’m going to go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and I’m going to Aurora.”

“You may never see me again, but that’s okay,” he added. “‘Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield.’”

“So the mayor of Springfield, and I think he’s a very nice person,” Trump continued. “But instead of saying we’re getting them all out, we’re getting them out, he says, very simply, ‘we’re hiring teachers to teach them English.’”

“Could you believe it? ‘We are hiring interpreters.’ So when they go to school and take the place of our children in school, we have an interpreter. Each one will have a private interpreter. What the hell is wrong with our country?” he asked.

The former president said, “we’re getting them out of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country. We’re getting them out. They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”

The city of Springfield states on its website that “YES, Haitian immigrants are here legally, under the Immigration Parole Program. Once here, immigrants are then eligible to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Haiti is designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security for TPS. Current TPS is granted through February 3, 2026.”

Trump suggested that Kamala Harris would be known as the “invasion president” as he complained about immigration.

“The border is 25 times worse than it was in 2016 now the border is not even believable … I want to be known as your border president,” Trump said.

“And Kamala will be known as your invasion president. Just let them all come in … We got to save our country. Our country is going down,” he claimed.

Trump indicated that he hasn’t read Melania’s new book, saying that he’s “so busy.”

“People love our First Lady. Go out and get a book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about… I don’t know. I didn’t… so busy. She just wrote a book called Melania. Go out and buy it, and if she says bad things about me, I’ll call you all up and I’ll say, don’t buy it,” Trump said.

Trump claimed that parents dropping off their kids at the New York subway have a 75 percent chance of never seeing them again.

“My parents would drop me off at a subway, and I’d go to Union Turnpike, or I’d go to wherever – they had no fear that I was going to be disappearing,” Trump said.

“If you do that today, you have about a 75 percent chance and you’ll never see your child again,” he claimed. “What the hell has happened here?”

“We will renovate the New York subway so that the greatest city in the world finally has again the greatest transit system anywhere in the world,” the former president said. “You have the basics. We have to clean it. We have to take care of it. We have to give it a little love, and we have to get the criminals the hell out of there.”

During a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, Vance was asked by Politico what would happen to migrants in the country under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, such as many of those in Springfield, during a possible second Trump administration. The Republican vice presidential nominee was also asked how the administration would go about deporting migrants in the country legally.

“The media loves to say that the Haitian migrants hundreds of thousands of them, by the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across the country, they are here legally,” Vance said. “And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and temporary protective status … to wave a wand and to say, ‘We’re not going to deport those people here.’”

Addressing the second assassination attempt on his life in the last few months, Trump called the suspect Ryan Wesley Routh a “radical left mobster.”

“As you know, three days ago, there was yet another assassination attempt on my life,” he said. “It was the second one in eight weeks by a violent radical left mobster, this evil would-be assassin, got within a few hundred yards of where I stood. But thankfully, our outstanding Secret Service agents … spotted the barrel of his rifle in the bushes.”

Trump is speaking at a rally in Uniondale, New York on Long Island.

“I’m thrilled to be back in the state I love with thousands of proud, patriotic New Yorkers who are really the heart and soul of America. We know that,” he said.

“And the reason I’m here … hasn’t been done in many decades. It hasn’t been done for a long time, but we are going to win New York,” Trump added.

The last time a Republican won the Empire State was in 1984 when Ronald Reagan won the state.

Speaker Mike Johnson pushed forward with his doomed bid to avert a government shutdown on Wednesday, despite clear signs that the legislation was unpalatable to both conservatives in his own party as well as Democrats who control the upper chamber of Congress.

The House voted early Wednesday evening on a continuing resolution to keep the government open laden with giveaways to the conservative right. Those included spending cuts and a piece of legislation stapled to the broader package aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting in federal elections — something that is already illegal. Johnson of course, admitted this in a recent interview — and has evaded acknowledging that Donald Trump’s claims of massive numbers of undocumented immigrants voting are false.

“This is the play we’re running,” the Speaker told The Hill this week. “I’ll be working around the clock to try to get it done.”

The producers of the program would have to go back and edit the show to make the person who Trump chose to fire look bad, even if they had performed quite well during the tasks at hand.