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| At Minneapolis Rally, an Angry Trump Reserves Sharpest Attack for Biden | |
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| MINNEAPOLIS — A fired-up President Trump lashed out against Democrats at a combative campaign rally on Thursday night, deriding them as “very sick and deranged people” who were investigating his interactions with foreign leaders to “erase your vote.” | MINNEAPOLIS — A fired-up President Trump lashed out against Democrats at a combative campaign rally on Thursday night, deriding them as “very sick and deranged people” who were investigating his interactions with foreign leaders to “erase your vote.” |
| Facing an impeachment vote in the House, Mr. Trump took his case to his core supporters, arguing that Democrats were trying to overturn the 2016 election because they knew they could not beat him in 2020. And he derided former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who he said did nothing but “kiss Barack Obama’s ass.” | Facing an impeachment vote in the House, Mr. Trump took his case to his core supporters, arguing that Democrats were trying to overturn the 2016 election because they knew they could not beat him in 2020. And he derided former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who he said did nothing but “kiss Barack Obama’s ass.” |
| “They want to erase your vote like it never existed,” the president told an arena filled with cheering backers in a liberal city in a state that he hopes to switch from blue to red next year. “They want to erase your voice, and they want to erase your future. But they will fail because in America, the people rule again.” | “They want to erase your vote like it never existed,” the president told an arena filled with cheering backers in a liberal city in a state that he hopes to switch from blue to red next year. “They want to erase your voice, and they want to erase your future. But they will fail because in America, the people rule again.” |
| In his first campaign rally since Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared the formal beginning of an impeachment inquiry last month, Mr. Trump was as raw and rancorous as ever before, targeting individual Democrats in highly personal terms that past presidents would never have employed. | In his first campaign rally since Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared the formal beginning of an impeachment inquiry last month, Mr. Trump was as raw and rancorous as ever before, targeting individual Democrats in highly personal terms that past presidents would never have employed. |
| “She’s either really stupid or she’s really lost it — or maybe there’s a certain dishonesty in there,” he said of Ms. Pelosi. | “She’s either really stupid or she’s really lost it — or maybe there’s a certain dishonesty in there,” he said of Ms. Pelosi. |
| Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who is one of his favorite targets, is an “America-hating socialist” who married her brother in order to come into the country, he said. | Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who is one of his favorite targets, is an “America-hating socialist” who married her brother in order to come into the country, he said. |
| And he spent a lot of time singling out Mr. Biden, one of the leading Democrats bidding to challenge him next year. “He was only a good vice president because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass,” the president said. | And he spent a lot of time singling out Mr. Biden, one of the leading Democrats bidding to challenge him next year. “He was only a good vice president because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass,” the president said. |