Donald Trump cast the US presidential
race in stark personal terms Wednesday, telling voters that if he loses
against Hillary Clinton it will be the “single greatest waste” of his
time and money.
The provocative billionaire, in a
disjointed speech in Ocala, Florida with just 27 days before the
election, reminded supporters that he will have spent some $100 million
of his own fortune on his campaign.
“If I don’t win on November 8th, I will
consider this the single greatest waste of time, of energy and money,”
the Republican nominee told the crowd.
“We’ll not be able to reduce your taxes,
or save your Second Amendment and appoint Supreme Court justices, and
take care of your vets and fix up your very depleted” military, he said.
Trump trails his Democratic opponent
Clinton in national polls, and his campaign is limping after last week’s
release of a 2005 tape in which he is caught bragging about groping
women.
He has since apologized for the comments, saying they were just “locker-room” banter.
Several fellow Republicans have
abandoned him, and the nation’s top elected Republican is refusing to
defend or campaign with Trump.
In Florida, Trump bashed Clinton as a
criminal who has skirted punishment for her use of private email while
secretary of state, which he said put America’s national security at
risk.
“Other people’s lives have been ruined, destroyed for doing a tiny fraction” of what Clinton has done.
“I am ashamed of what has happened to our country and so are you,” he said.
With the race boiling down to three
final weeks and Clinton in the driver’s seat, Trump appeared to be
savaging his rival to keep her supporters or undecided voters away from
the polls on Election Day.
“She pledged to dissolve the borders of
the United States of America,” Trump fumed, referring to a hacked email,
allegedly to a Clinton aide, that included quotes from her closed-door
speeches to Wall Street banks and other corporations.
Clinton apparently told a Brazilian bank
in 2013: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and
open borders, sometime in the future with energy that’s as green and
sustainable as we can get it.”
The Democratic nominee was in Colorado
on Wednesday, where her communications director criticized Trump’s
“scorched-earth policy” aimed at driving down Democratic turnout.
“Obviously Hillary Clinton is very
concerned about how divisive this race has been, and all that Donald
Trump has done to try to divide Americans,” Jennifer Palmieri told
reporters.
“We feel energy is growing on the
Democratic side,” she said, citing growing Democratic voter registration
in some key swing states.
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