Former President Donald Trump told Pennsylvania voters that they have “no choice” but to vote for him in the 2024 presidential election, warning that our nation can’t survive with Vice President Kamala Harris as commander-in-chief.
“You can sit there and say, ‘I can’t stand that guy but there’s no way I’m gonna vote for her,’” Trump said.
Trump told a Fox News town hall that Kamala Harris would carry out her threat to impose a ban on fracking in the state.
“Pennsylvania can’t take the chance that that answer is true,” said Trump.
Fox News host Sean Hannity played a video showing Harris saying that she supported a ban on fracking, and Trump responded: “She will do that. There’s no chance she’s going to allow it.”
“The election will take place, if she won, you’re not gonna have any fracking in Pennsylvania. You have 500,000 jobs. Think of that, it’s your biggest business, and you get a big majority of your income from fracking, and you have somebody that’s not gonna allow fracking. She’s not gonna allow it. You can’t take the chance. You have no choice. You’ve gotta vote for me,” Trump said.
“The whole country would go down the tubes if you didn’t do the fossil fuel thing. You know, you’re the biggest in the country for this. You have two of the biggest sites in the world. It’s a massive business for Pennsylvania and you can’t take a chance,” Trump added.
Trump said Harris will “not allow fracking, and she’s got a lot of other problems too.”
Harris told CNN last week that even though she had declared she would outlaw fracking during her initial bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, she would not do so if she were elected president in November.
“What I have seen is that we can grow, and we can increase a clean energy economy without banning fracking,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash.
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Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman stated that Tuesday’s ABC News Presidential discussion in Philadelphia will be “close,” acknowledging that both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are capable of competing in a discussion.
During an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Fetterman was asked what Harris needed to do in the debate to win over important Pennsylvania voters in the battleground state.
“I also want to just say that it’s going to be a straight-up debate. She’s going to do great, of course, but Donald Trump will be good, too,” Fetterman said.
“I mean, we can all remember he wrecked all of the Republicans. He’s a good debater. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe this debate’s going to be definitive because it’s going to come down to this choice, and it’s going to be close,” Fetterman continued.
Fetterman said Pennsylvania “is always going to be close” in terms of votes during the presidential election, and thinks that the focus of voters will be on “order” versus “chaos.”
“I think a majority of Pennsylvanians are going to decide, ‘Hey, I want four years of order and fairness and unity and a different way forward.’ And I don’t think they want the kinds of dark days and chaos that Donald Trump provided for our nation,” the senator said.
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Panelists on Fox News’s “The Big Weekend Show” discussed the established rules of the upcoming ABC News presidential debate between Trump and Harris.
“Tour de force aren’t going to be what you hear from the headlines, because the campaign’s already downplaying her performance before it even happens,” Fox News national correspondent Griff Jenkins said.
“[The Trump campaign] offered her three debates, which is really out of respect for the American people and the voters [for candidates] to earn their vote on Election Day,” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich said.
“We’ve always had three debates, right? One is this format that we’re going to see on Tuesday night, one is a town hall debate, and then one focuses on foreign policy,” Fox News contributor Joe Concha said. “[Harris] was offered a Fox News debate, and she would not take that debate because Bret Baier [and] Martha MacCallum are going to ask germane, relevant, tough questions. She wants no part of that whatsoever.”
The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday will model the one that took place in June between Trump and President Joe Biden, with one candidate’s microphone being live while they respond to questions and the other’s being muted until it is their turn to speak.
Additionally, according to ABC News, Trump and Harris will each have two minutes to respond to questions. There will then be a rebuttal period of two minutes, and there will be “an additional minute for a follow-up, clarification, or response.”
No contender will be permitted to enter the stage with pre-written notes, and each competitor’s closing remarks will be limited to 120 seconds.
Neither side will be allowed to make an opening statement.
