Donald Trump Ohio speech: Biden, Congress pouring fuel over inflation fire

Former US President Donald Trump is at Ohio where he is speaking for the Republican Party nominees in the upcoming mid-term elections in November. In his speech, the former President said that President Joe Biden and “the Democrat Congress keep spending us further and further into oblivion, pouring fuel on the inflation fire, incinerating trillions of dollars of middle class wealth, and doing it at a level that nobody ever thought possible.”

Another focus of the speech was immigration. He said, “Our country is being invaded” by “millions of illegal immigrants from all over the planet”. He also chastised “left-wing sickos” for “pumping toxic anti-American propaganda” into the minds of the American youth. 

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The former President also mentioned the Russia-Ukraine war and said that “if they didn’t rig the election”, in an apparent reference to the 2020 presidential elections that Trump and his allies have claimed have been rigged, the same could have been avoided.

JD Vance, the venture capitalist who is the Republicans’ Senate nominee, has been on the receiving end of some flak from his fellow GOP members. He spoke of the same at the Republican Party’s annual dinner in Putnam County. Regarding such criticism Vance said, “One criticism I’ve heard is, ‘Yeah, we see you at events like these, we see at the state fairs and all that, but we don’t see you on TV”. 

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The 38-year-old is currently four percentage points ahead of his Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan.

At the rally, congressional candidate J.R. Majewski said, “For those of you that are willing to stand on your feet & risk persecution, than fall on your knees in oppression, I ask you to stand with us!”

Despite his minimal presence on airwaves, Vance has the backing of Trump, whose Ohio appearance is the second rally post the primary elections. In the earlier campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the former President had lambasted the Department of Justice and the FBI regarding their involvement in the Mar-a-Lago raid.