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Harris team responds to Trump’s NEPA rally

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — The Democratic team of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz issued a statement after Donald Trump’s speech at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township.

“After Donald Trump’s ‘worst week yet’ — featuring his plans to use troops against the American people and impose an even higher middle-class tax hike — Trump continued to spiral down the rabbit hole,” said Harris-Walz 2024 spokesperson Joseph Costello. “Even Trump’s MAGA diehards couldn’t sit through his whole speech.”

Costello added, “Another rally, same old show. Donald Trump can’t sell his dangerous Project 2025 agenda to raise taxes on working families by $3,900, terminate the Affordable Care Act, and rip away our freedoms, so he resorts to lies, name-calling, and confused rants.

“The more Americans hear Trump speak, the clearer the choice this November: Vice President Harris is unifying voters with her positive vision to protect our freedoms, build up the middle class, and move America forward — and Donald Trump is trying to take us backwards.”

The Democratic National Committee’s “War Room” also did a fact check on the Trump-Vance ticket.

In response to Trump’s “desperate efforts to cover for his deeply unpopular anti-health care agenda,” DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released a statement.

“Facts aren’t the Trump-Vance ticket’s strong suit, but the reality is that Donald Trump already tried (and failed) to ‘terminate’ and ‘totally kill’ the Affordable Care Act the last time he was in office — and just two weeks ago his running mate JD Vance confirmed that repealing the ACA would be a ‘priority’ for a second Trump term,” Floyd said. “The truth is that Trump and Vance are hellbent on pushing an extreme Project 2025 agenda to rip away health care access from millions of Americans. The future of affordable health care is on the ballot this November — and Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz are the only ticket that will save the ACA and its critical protections for Americans with preexisting conditions.”

Floyd said Trump led efforts to repeal the ACA as president and spent years railing against affordable health care.

Onotse Omoyeni, Pennsylvania Rapid Response Director, issued a statement on behalf of the Harris for President campaign.

“Pennsylvania voters remember how disastrous Trump’s first term was — from destroying more than 275,000 jobs to presiding over one steel factory closing after the next — and they know that a second term would be even worse.

“This election will be a choice between Trump’s disastrous Project 2025 agenda and Vice President Kamala Harris’ plans to lower costs for working families by cutting taxes for the middle class, reducing grocery costs, taking on price gouging, lowering the costs of owning and renting a home, bringing down the costs of prescription drugs and relieving medical debt for millions of Americans.”