Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: In his first campaign rally after President Joe Biden quit the 2024 presidential race, Republican nominee Donald Trump lit into her laying out his angles of attack on Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Mispronouncing her name as Kamaala, he launched a fusillade of labels – “ultra-liberal”, “Left-Lunatic”, “Marxist”, and “ultra-left” – to brand her ideologically at a rally in Charlotte in North Carolina, a state he carried in the last two elections. His rally was held indoors in a packed stadium with seating on stands of about 10,000 with another 10,000 or so in temporary seats in the playfield, because of security reasons after the sniper attack at his outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump seemed to not have a bandage on his right ear, which had been injured in the recent assassination attempt. His speech of 100 minutes was theatre and entertainment for his fervent supporters relying on his showmanship and unabashed hyperbole, sometimes fact-challenged.
The only issue he spoke of that could affect India was to repeat his threat to enact what he called the Trump Reciprocal Tariff Act that would impose retaliatory taxes on countries that impose high customs duties on imports from the US.
