Trump speaks at Wisconsin campaign rally behind barriers of bulletproof glass – live | US elections 2024

Trump brought Dodge county sheriff Dale Schmidt to the stage, along with a group of other Wisconsin sheriffs.

“I am proud to announce that all of these sheriffs are among a very small amount of sheriffs and law enforcement across our country that support you,” Schmidt said.

“In Dodge county, in this 2024 election, there are zero drop boxes for the election,” the sheriff said proudly.

Eric Hovde, Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin took the stage during Trump’s rally.

Hovde attacked his rival Tammy Baldwin and said: “All of you go work hard, go grab every friend, colleague, neighbor, and let’s restore this great country and get President Trump and me to Washington.”

Trump also invited Republican senator Ron Johnson to the stage. He congratulated Trump for his alliance with the ex-independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

“We are actually going through a huge problem with chronic health and children’s health, but you are right about the enemy within. They are dividing us. They are destroying this nation. And by aligning with Bobby Kennedy, you are setting the example,” Johnson said.

Kennedy has been campaigning for Trump since he ended his own independent presidential bid to support the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump baselessly linked inflation and the country’s economic woes to the influx of migrants in the US.

He falsely claimed leaders in other countries are emptying their jails and sending inmates to the US.

He later presented a chart that shows the rate of migrant entries in the US, suggesting a decline during his presidency.

“I kiss it every night,” Trump said about his chart. “I take it to bed with me every single night.”

Donald Trump called Wisconsin governor Tony Evers a “lousy governor”.

“I hate to say it with your Democrat governor, you have some of the highest electricity prices, and highest energy costs is just about at the top in Wisconsin,” Trump said.

He then said he plans to double the electricity production for the development of artificial intelligence.

“We need tremendous electric here so that other people that are into this whole world of this, it’s a new world, but it’s going to be a very big world, a very fascinating world,” he said about the field of AI.

Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris’s tax policy, calling her a “tax queen” and misleading attendees with a claim that Harris plans to raise taxes on US families.

“I’ve never seen somebody that openly campaigns on the fact that they’re going to raise taxes,” Trump said.

He then showed a campaign ad, composed of a compilation of clips of Harris saying wants to raise taxes.

In reality, Harris has said she plans to cut corporate tax rates.

Donald Trump said rifle owners and the Christian community don’t vote “as much as they should”.

“Evangelicals don’t vote that much, and if they did vote, we could never lose an election,” he said.

Donald Trump claimed that the media favors Kamala Harris in their coverage and they “hate our country”. He continued to make anti-immigrant and transphobic comments.

“I can’t understand. Why do they want open borders? Why do they want sex change operations for people that are too young to even think about it? Why do they want men playing in women’s sports?” Trump said.

“We actually are now the party of common sense,” he said. “I think that’s what I like calling us now, party of common sense.”

The former president called Elon Musk a “good guy” a day after the SpaceX founder made an appearance at Trump’s rally on Saturday.

He also attacked his rival Kamala Harris, calling her “grossly incompetent”.

“Kamala is not wonderful,” Trump said. “With four more years of Kamala Harris, your long nightmare is just beginning.”

Donald Trump said the response to Hurricane Helene in the south-eastern US was “probably worse than Katrina”, referring to the devastating storm in 2005.

“That’s hard to beat, right? Worse than Katrina. They didn’t do too good a job, either,” he said.

Donald Trump called the Biden administration “the most corrupt people” during his rally in Wisconsin.

“From the very beginning of this journey, I’ve been on a mission to rescue our nation from a failed and corrupt political establishment and corrupt people,” he said.

“This country is in big trouble. We’re a failing nation. We are a failing nation. We’re a nation in decline. We’re a nation in distress, and we’re going to get it fixed very quickly,” Trump said.

“Just 30 days from now, we’re going to win the state of Wisconsin, we’re going to defeat Kamala Harris,” Trump said.

He called his rally on Saturday an “unbelievable evening”, when he returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of his assassination attempt.

“We had 100,000 people, and there was love, and I had a fantastic… opera singer, and he went up and he sang ‘Ave Maria’,” he said.

Donald Trump started his speech on time in Juneau, Wisconsin.

The former president is standing behind barriers of bulletproof glass, which is now a standard US Secret Service practice at outdoor rallies.

We’ll be following his remarks.

Arkansas senator Tom Cotton dodged questions regarding the results of the 2020 elections during an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press, where he struggled to admit that Donald Trump lost the race.

“Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. It was an unfair election in many ways,” Cotton said on Sunday. “You had states that were changing their election practices or election laws, sometimes in violation of their constitution.”

“Joe Biden was elected president. Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket as a result,” he added.

President Joe Biden said on Sunday he ordered another 500 active-duty troops to move into western North Carolina and assist with the response and recovery efforts after the deadly and devastating Hurricane Helene.

“With a total of 1,500 troops now supplementing a robust on-the-ground effort – including more than 6,100 National Guardsmen and more than 7,000 Federal personnel – my administration is sparing no resource to support families as they begin their road to rebuilding,” Biden said in a statement.

He also said he was being briefed on tropical storm Milton as it strengthened across the Gulf of Mexico. Milton, which strengthened into a category one hurricane on Sunday, is expected to make landfall on Florida on Tuesday or Wednesday.

California representative Adam Schiff said during an interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Donald Trump “will contest” the election results if he loses.

“If it is close, if Donald Trump loses again, as I expect that he will, he will contest it,” Schiff said.

“He has more reason to contest it than he did before, not because of any flaw in the election, but because Donald Trump believes, and perhaps with reason, that if he doesn’t succeed at the ballot box, he may be going to jail. So he’s going to challenge the results.”

Republican Senate candidate and former Maryland mayor Larry Hogan said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union that if he’s elected, he will not support cabinet or supreme court nominees who do not garner bipartisan support in the Senate.

“I would make that pledge. If we can’t get any bipartisan buy-in, then I’m not going to vote for that person,” he said.

“In Washington, we can’t even seem to get one vote,” Hogan added. “It’s like Democrats will only vote for Democrats and Republicans will only vote for Republicans. If there’s one place that we should not be playing politics, it’s on appointments to the supreme court.”

The Charlotte Observer’s editorial board published an op-ed titled: Shame on Donald Trump for worsening NC’s Helene tragedy with political lies.

On Monday, Trump accused the federal government and Democratic governor Roy Cooper of “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!” Trump also said that the Biden administration has “left Americans to drown” in North Carolina and other states.

“This is not a situation to capitalize on for political gain,” reads the op-ed. “But former President Donald Trump has politicized the situation at every turn, spreading falsehoods and conspiracies that fracture the community instead of bringing it together.”

Here’s more context on some of the false claims made by Trump:

Ahead of a rally by the Republic presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in Juneau, Wisconsin, a line began forming near the event venue at the Dodge county airport.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that attendees were greeted by a “larger-than-life Trump inflatable with which some were taking photos”.

The former president’s speech is scheduled for 2pm CT, buthe usually starts his speeches at least half an hour after the slated time.