Trump responds to accusations of anger

Sarah Arnold writes for Townhall.com about former President Donald Trump’s response to criticism of his recent debate performance.

Former President Donald Trump delivered an excellent response to people who accused him of being angry during this week’s presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“People said I was angry about the debate, angry,” Trump told a crowd in Tucson, Arizona.

“‘I was angry, and yes, I am angry because they let 21 million illegal aliens invade our communities. Many of them are criminals,’ he said. ‘I am angry about Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora, Colorado, and illegal Haitian migrants taking over Springfield, Ohio. I am angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized by barbaric criminal aliens. I am angry about the rampant inflation that is destroying our middle class — and the American people are angry too!’

To cheers from the crowd, Trump said he was angry “about the rampant inflation that is destroying our middle class, and the American people are also very angry about that and about everything we’ve had to endure over the last three and a half years.”

The 45th president criticized Harris’ self-declared “victory” during the debate, saying ABC News moderators showed favoritism to the vice president while fact-checking and throwing Trump into the debate every chance they got.

“Kamala Harris showed up with empty rhetoric. Same old lies, platitudes, no plans, no policies, no details, nothing,” he said. “The two hosts, David Muir and Linsey Davis, sat there and just corrected me on things that I was right about, but didn’t correct Kamala on Project 25, which I knew nothing about, on the carnage hoax that’s been completely debunked, that had to do with the auto industry that’s dying.”

Despite Democrats praising Harris’ debate performance, it didn’t do her any favors. In a post-debate poll conducted by JL Partners for DailyMail.com, 50 percent of respondents said they still don’t know enough about Harris’ plans, compared to 37 percent who said the same about Trump. The poll’s election model “currently leans toward Trump.”

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