Trump claims if Biden wins election US seniors will have no AC during the summer or heat in winter

President also praises debate moderator Kristen Welker

Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
Friday 23 October 2020 23:22 BST
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Trump claims senior citizens will have 'no AC' if Biden wins election
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Donald Trump bizarrely claimed that if Joe Biden wins the White House  senior citizens will have no AC in the summer or heat in the winter.

The president attacked his rival’s climate plans at a campaign rally in the Flordia retirement community of The Villages.

“Biden’s plan would mean America’ seniors have no air conditioning during the summer, no heat during the winter and no electricity during peak hours.," said Mr Trump.

“It’s true. He wants wind. When the wind doesn’t blow, ‘Lets watch the president on television tonight darling”, “I’m sorry we can’t, the wind is not blowing tonight.'”

Mr Trump went on to praise the treatment he got from debate moderator Kristen Welker.

“I thought I got treated very fairly by the anchor, Kristen, I was surprised, she has been a little bit rough on me over the years so i was surprised, her network has been cray, NBC,” said Mr Trump.

"I thought Kristen did a very good job, some people said she interrupted me more than she did Sleepy Joe but that’s because he didn’t have that much to say.

“I said she handled it very professionally, it is not easy.”

Earlier Mr Trump called Mr Biden’s position on fossil fuels could be “one of the worst mistakes in presidential debate history.”

The president accused Mr Biden and the media of trying to “scare” Americans about coronavirus.

“He gets up this morning leaves his house and all he wants to talk about Covid, Covid, Covid, he wants to scare people. We are rounding the turn beautifully,” said Mr Trump.

The president then claimed that his administration had done a good job in testing for the virus.

“You know why we have so many case numbers? Because we do more testing than any country in the world,” said Mr Trump.

“There's plenty good about testing, too. The bad thing is you find cases."

Mr Trump said that despite rising virus cases in the US, the country was not approaching a “dark winter” but  instead was heading for “the final turn and approaching the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Throughout the rally social media observers claimed that an audience member behind the president appeared to be making white supremacy hand gestures as Mr Trump spoke.

Mr Trump, who is polling poorly with women, also took a shot at Senator Kamala Harris.

"We're not supposed to have a socialist — look we're not going to be a socialist nation," said Mr Trump.

“We're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president, we're not going to have it, we're not going to put up with it.”

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