Trump escalates his immigration rhetoric with baseless claim about Biden trying to overthrow the US - Seymour Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "At both rallies, Trump played a recording of "Justice for All," the version of the Star-Spangled Banner that he collaborated on with a group of defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 2021 insurrection, whom he refers to as "hostages."As he focuses on the general election, Trump has painted an apocalyptic vision of the country under Biden, particularly on the topic of immigration, which was the animating issue of his 2016 campaign and which he has once again seized on as the U.S. has experienced a record influx of migrants at the border.
48% : Trump won North Carolina twice but watched his margin of victory shrink.
46% : Ken Ballos, a retired police officer from nearby Hanover County who said he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, said he was eager at the prospect of a Trump-Biden rematch.
42% : Trump leaned into the theory again at his rally later in Virginia, saying of the migrants: "They're trying to sign them up to get them to vote in the next election.
41% : ""Once again Trump is projecting in an attempt to distract the American people from the fact he killed the fairest and toughest border security bill in decades because he believed it would help his campaign.
40% : Biden's reelection campaign already has staff on the ground hoping to flip the state for the first time since 2008.Virginia, meanwhile, had once been a swing state but for years has trended blue and Trump lost there twice.
40% : "We just love Trump," said, Mary Welborn, who lives in nearby Thomasville and expressed that she was frustrated by the criminal prosecutions and civil judgments against the former president.
39% : Trump has a long history of trying to turn attack lines back on his rivals in an attempt to diminish their impact.
39% : I don't personally think so," Trump said early into his appearance in Virginia.
33% : The primaries will be the largest day of voting of the year ahead of November's general election, which is shaping up as a likely rematch of 2020 between Trump and Biden.
31% : "Not one more innocent American life should be lost to migrant crime," Trump said.
27% : Studies have found native-born U.S. residents are more likely to have been arrested for violent crimes than people in the country illegally, but Trump has seized on several high-profile incidents, including a recent video of a group of migrants brawling with police in Times Square.
27% : Trump has lately sought to inoculate any questions by insisting he interchanges the names intentionally.
25% : Trump and Biden both visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to highlight their contrasting approaches to the issue.
23% : "I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president, but as a proud political dissident and a public enemy of a rogue regime," Trump said, railing against what he called an "anti-Democratic machine.
17% : "We're going to keep going and we're going to keep pushing," she said, arguing a majority of Americans don't want either Biden or Trump as the nation's leader.
10% : Biden has cast Trump as a threat to democracy, pointing to the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
10% : On Saturday, Trump conjured images of Biden turning "public schools into migrant camps" and "the USA into a crime-ridden, disease-ridden dumping ground, which is what they're doing."
10% : Trump, who repeatedly attacks Biden's intelligence and mental acuity, has been sensitive to questions of his own sharpness after he's mixed up Haley with Nancy Pelosi and Biden with former President Barack Obama at past rallies.
4% : Trump, who has responded by calling Biden "the real threat to democracy" and alleged without proof that Biden is responsible for the indictments he faces, turned to Biden's border policies on Saturday, charging that "every day Joe Biden is giving aid and comfort to foreign enemies of the United States.

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