My visit to Harrisburg to see a Donald Trump town hall meeting

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September 6, 2024
My visit to Harrisburg to see a Donald Trump town hall meeting
By Bruce Dov Perel

Donald Trump held a town hall meeting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 16 days before Pennsylvania will start voting. The town hall replaced the Fox News debate that the Trump and Biden campaigns had agreed upon. Currently, the presidential race is a tossup, according to most reputable polls. It can very well be that Kamala Harris will be the next President of the USA.

Sean Hannity hosted the town hall for FOX News. Ten thousand people waited in for hours to attend the event. There were many media outlets present, as well as Eric Trump and Dave McCormick.

I was one of the 10,000, and here’s what I saw.

President Trump explained that in the last election, Fake News ABC reported he was down 16 points to Biden in Wisconsin. That led many Trump supporters to skip voting because they thought Trump had already lost. In fact, Trump was down six points. If voters had known, that would have led to a higher voter turnout because people would feel their vote would make a difference.

What ABC News did is called voter suppression. Biden won Wisconsin because people looked at ABC’s poll showing Biden winning by 16 points and gave up hope. Ultimately, Biden won Wisconsin by 0.63 of a point. The election was stolen. Period.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/my_visit_to_harrisburg_to_see_a_donald_trump_town_hall_meeting.html

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Read the article .... It's worth it to learn some of the other things he talked about and the questions he answered.  A sampling follows.

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President Trump receives a ROARING applause from the audience as he enters the stage for tonight’s interview with Hannity 🔥” (Video)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1831499599917543617

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TRUMP: “It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons and we are going to make it better. We are going to heal our world. We’re gonna get rid of all these wars starting all over the place. We’re going to make it better.” (Video)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1831504065521709071

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: Pennsylvania can’t take a chance on Kamala Harris. If she won, you’re not going to have any fracking in Pennsylvania. It’s your biggest business, and you get a big majority of your income from fracking. You have no choice — you’ve got to vote for me! (Video)

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831505993479409988

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Hannity: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Crowd: “NOOOOOOO”. (Video)

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831508792489419121

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Take a look at Aurora in Colorado where Venezuelans are taking over the whole town — They have AK-47s. They’re knocking down doors and occupying apartments. The people are petrified and it’s getting worse and worse — We have to do the largest deportation in history.” (Video)

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831504823482466467

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TRUMP: If Kamala wins you will have 100 Million illegals in the United States” (Video)

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1831511854423687619

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“Conclusion of Hannity Town Hall in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with President Trump…” (Video)

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1831517368150851829

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TRUMP ON ECONOMY: "We're going to have low interest rates, low taxes, we're going to give you tremendous incentive to grow and build your business."

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1831868258519281773

[catfish1957]

Every conservative ought to rejoice at the thought of bringing Musk into the government to basically "GUT IT".   

Seeing Musk with a kitchen sink ought to strike fear into every worthless bureaucrat sucking on Fedzilla's hind teat!!!!

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"My question to you is, on Day One, when you're back in the White House, how do we restore deterrence? How do we bring strength and capability back to our military, and how do we make sure everybody knows that America is back?"

President Trump: "We have to strengthen our country from within. We have to have a border like we had four years ago. The other thing is, we have to become energy DOMINANT. We will bring back PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH."

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831863288142967098

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Highlights From Trump's Town Hall With Fox News
Epoch Times, Sep 5, 2024

HARRISBURG, Pa.—Former President Donald Trump continued his courtship of voters in Pennsylvania, one of a handful of states that could decide the 2024 presidential election, with a wide-ranging town hall discussion on Sept. 4.

Fox News host Sean Hannity reminded the audience at New Holland Arena that the Republican nominee’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, declined an invitation to debate Trump that night. That’s why the event instead became a Trump-only town hall.

So far, Harris has agreed to one debate with Trump, set for Sept. 10 with ABC News in Philadelphia. Trump also invited her to appear Sept. 25 on CBS News.

Banter between Hannity and Trump on Wednesday, sprinkled with video montages of Harris’s past statements, filled about 50 minutes that had been allotted—even before a single audience member had been able to ask a question.

Then, Trump suggested, “Let’s make two shows” from the footage; Hannity obliged, and the event continued for about 15 more minutes as Dave McCormick, a Republican candidate for Senate, and four attendees sought answers from the former president. Their questions focused on safety, immigration, and the economy. Trump repeated his past pledges to improve on all three of those fronts.

The network was slated to broadcast the prerecorded Trump–Hannity interview later on Sept. 4; the Trump–audience interactions will air during Hannity’s regular time slot on Sept. 5. Other media outlets, including The Epoch Times, were permitted to report on the exchanges only after the first segment was broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 4.

The following are key highlights from the town hall.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/highlights-from-trumps-town-hall-with-fox-news-5718273?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy

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ABC Debate: ‘I’m Gonna Let Her Talk’
After Hannity asked what the former president was doing to get ready for next week’s debate with Harris, Trump replied: “I think I’ve been practicing all my life for this stuff. It’ll be an interesting evening.”

The former president said debates are unpredictable, so a candidate needs to be nimble. Many before him have prepped extensively, only to fail miserably in the heat of debate. “Everybody has a plan until they get ‘punched in the face,’” Trump said, quoting Mike Tyson. [...]

Fracking a Big Deal for Pennsylvania
Noting that many thousands of Pennsylvanians depend on fracking for their livelihoods, Trump told the audience, “You have no choice; you’ve gotta vote for me.”

Hannity played multiple video clips of Harris making past statements opposing fracking. Trump said he disbelieves her recent statement that she won’t ban the procedure that is used to help extract gas or oil from the ground. He said Democrats’ policies have directly hurt the industry even without an outright ban. [...]

Trump Trending Upward
Hannity noted the town hall came at a time when Trump was trending upward in some of the polls. Those include a Trafalgar Group poll showing Trump ahead of Harris in Pennsylvania by 2 percentage points.

The host said the latest numbers seem to suggest that Harris’s “long-lived honeymoon phase now finally, finally appears to be over.” [...]

Contrast With Harris–Walz Accessibility
Hannity noted that Harris has given no solo news conferences since she became the apparent Democratic nominee 45 days prior to the Fox town hall.

She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participated in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Aug. 29 but disclosed no new policy specifics. And, as of Sept. 4, no policy platform was yet listed on Harris’s website.

Hannity contrasted this with the dozens of news conferences and interviews Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have given since Biden dropped out of the race.

After Trump passed the 16-minute, 30-second mark into the program, Hannity thanked him for going longer than Harris’s CNN interview; the audience laughed.

Reassuring ‘Hesitant’ Voters
A woman asked Trump what he had learned from his first term as president that could help reassure “those that are hesitant to vote for [him] now.”

Trump replied that he learned the importance of putting the right people into key positions in his administration.

“I put people in, that in some cases were not what I really wanted. ... I know the good ones, the bad ones, the weak ones, the smart ones, the dumb ones,” he said, his last phrase prompting a chuckle from the audience. “A big key to running it is getting the right people. ... I know now the people, and I know them better than anybody.”


https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/highlights-from-trumps-town-hall-with-fox-news-5718273?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge

[Right_in_Virginia]

Every conservative ought to rejoice at the thought of bringing Musk into the government to basically "GUT IT".   

Seeing Musk with a kitchen sink ought to strike fear into every worthless bureaucrat sucking on Fedzilla's hind teat!!!!

Did you see Trump's speech yesterday to the Economic Club @catfish1957 ?  I thought it was excellent and detailed.

[catfish1957]

Did you see Trump's speech yesterday to the Economic Club @catfish1957 ?  I thought it was excellent and detailed.

Not yet, but I am impressed with the Fall 2024 version of Trump.  The Musk addition was awesome.  I just can't wait until the press conference happens where Musk tells the American voters that half of the non-military members in the federal govenment aren't needed, and have been a massive waste of tax dollars.