Trump, Back In Battleground Pennsylvania, Offers The Same Economic Playbook

YORK, Pa. — In the type of city he once promised to set on an explosive path to economic growth, Donald Trump laid out a vague economic agenda for a second term and claimed a Kamala Harris presidency would unleash a “big-league depression” across the nation.

“Kamala Harris is an economy-wrecker and a country-destroyer,” Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, told what appeared to be a relatively small audience in the historic brick warehouse of Pennsylvania machining manufacturer Precision Custom Components. “Now she wants to be promoted to job-killer-in-chief.”

Trump described a dystopian future under Harris, peppered with lies and exaggerations about the vice president’s plans and record. He claimed the first Black and South Asian woman to run as the Democratic presidential nominee was “on a regulatory jihad,” adding, “Kamala stands for energy disappearance and energy obliteration,” as he stood next to a banner reading, “Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!”

In Trump’s hourlong speech, he made many of the same promises he made in 2016 and 2020 about bringing back manufacturing and offshored jobs.

The former president said he would cut energy costs in half during the first year of his administration, but didn’t explain how he’d achieve that goal. He claimed he’d create dozens of new power plants — again, without specifics. He said he would end President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate (which Trump has discussed before). And he endorsed slashing taxes for working Americans and heaping taxes on foreign manufacturers. “This will help us end inflation and make America affordable,” he said.

In a state where fracking is a hot-button issue, Trump repeatedly pointed out that Harris has supported fracking bans. He also accused her of copying