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    Before the Steelers game, Trump does the age defense at PA City Hall

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    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended himself against attacks on his age during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Sunday. The event took place between a visit to McDonald’s to hand out fries and a planned attendance at a Pittsburgh Steelers game.

    “I’m not 80, and I’m not even close to 80,” the 78-year-old former president said at a town hall event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    “I did cognitive testing. I took them twice and passed both, and in one case the doctor said, ‘I’ve never seen anyone pass them,'” Trump added.

    Trump appeared to be referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which, according to his White House physician, Ronny Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas, the then-president in January 2018 answered perfectly in 10 minutes and asks 30 questions, including about naming the animal in a picture and to repeat a series of words.

    During Sunday’s town hall meeting, Trump also spoke sharply against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ evolving stance on fracking, an energy production technique used for natural gas in Pennsylvania and more than two dozen other states. Harris called for a ban on the practice when she first ran for president in 2019, although she now says she would allow it.

    Earlier in the day, the former president visited a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, where he donned an apron, worked the fry station and handed out food to pre-screened people along the drive-thru.

    Harris, for her part, celebrated her 60th birthday on Sunday with a visit to two churches in Georgia and called for early voting in another key swing state.

    “She could have a cognitive problem”

    Democrats have gone on the offensive in recent days over Trump’s age and behavior, including last week at a town hall in Pennsylvania, where the Republican presidential candidate walked around the crowd to music for nearly 40 minutes after answering the question because of two medical emergencies -and-answer part of his event.

    At a fundraiser in Boston, Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate and two-time governor of Minnesota, referenced Trump’s comments from a rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where the former president told a story about the private anatomy of a former professional golfer and praised the late Arnold Palmer as All Man.

    “These are people out there, and I meet them – hell, they’re my family – and I meet them, they – ‘I don’t really like Trump.’ “You mean you don’t like him talking about Arnold Palmer in the shower, the stuff you don’t like?” Walz said Sunday. “And it’s going to be pretty embarrassing for them.”

    Trump pushed back against criticism of his age at his town hall on Sunday, singling out Wall Street Journal opinion writer James Taranto, who wrote in a recent article that there were no signs of “dissent” from Trump when the Republican candidate’s editorial board met the newspaper’s board on Thursday. While Trump’s “discursive speaking style can confuse listeners,” that was also true nine years ago, according to Taranto.

    At his town hall, Trump tried to turn the tables on Harris. “She may have a cognitive problem, but there is no cognitive problem,” he said.

    “Frack, baby, frack”

    When asked by a small business owner at Lancaster City Hall about gas prices, Trump promised that his incoming administration would cut electric and energy bills in half “within a year” by pushing forward measures to expand oil and gas production.

    “What do we do? Drill, baby drill. Tailcoat, baby tailcoat,” Trump said.

    Trump’s campaign then played town hall attendees a series of video clips in which Harris discussed energy policy in her 2020 presidential campaign, including one in which she said she was “determined to pass a Green New Deal and finally end fracking.” put.” for everyone.”

    “She doesn’t want fracking. She never wanted fracking,” Trump said.

    Trump also claimed that Harris, along with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “destroyed” California, but repeatedly mispronounced Newsom’s last name, making him sound like Newsom “scum.”

    “We will not let it destroy America,” he said.

    Trump calls for protecting law enforcement from “the bad things.”

    A Pennsylvania sheriff who said he supported Trump asked the former president how his law and order plan would help local sheriffs. Trump responded that police officers must be protected from any legal consequences.

    “We need to protect our law enforcement. We have to compensate them for the bad things,” Trump said.

    Trump said that a police officer doing his job is often attacked by critics who want to take away his job or pension or fire the person.

    “We have people who need to be given authority and respect back because our cities are exploding,” he said.

    Trump goes to the Steelers game as Harris touts his support

    Trump said he plans to attend the Steelers-New York Jets game at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh on Sunday night.

    In a pregame press release, the Harris campaign touted the support of former Steelers players Jerome “The Bus” Bettis and Joe Greene, as well as the family of former player Franco Harris, who died in 2022.

    “It’s time we elect a leader who will fight for us. Someone who will roll up their sleeves and get the job done. Not just complaining about it in a half-empty venue,” Bettis said in a video. “There is only one person in this race who meets these requirements: Vice President Kamala Harris.”

    The Steelers are owned by Arthur Rooney II. His father, the late Dan Rooney, was U.S. ambassador to Ireland during the Obama administration. The Jets are co-owned by Robert Wood Johnson IV, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom during the Trump administration.

    (This story has been updated with more information.)

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