Donald Trump unveiled a new tax policy at an Arizona rally, saying he will abolish taxes on overtime if he returns to the White House. The former President said the policy would incentivize hard work, adding that it is “time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break.” Mr. Trump has also pledged to end taxation on tips and Social Security payments.
Speaking to a raucous crowd in Tucson, the former President discussed the Philadelphia debate against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and said she had offered little of substance. Trump mocked Harris’s mannerisms and said few Americans know she is. Unusually, he praised the Vice President’s first name, saying Kamala is a “very nice name.” He then claimed that Americans only know her as Kamala, and when she is referred to as “Harris,” people’s response is to ask, “Who the hell is that?”
The Arizona event was Trump’s first since his debate against Harris, and he insisted he had defeated her. “We had a monumental victory over comrade Kamala Harris,” he told a cheering crowd. However, many Republicans and allies did not express the same confidence. Several GOP lawmakers, speaking anonymously, said the former President had failed to hold Harris to account and allowed himself to become distracted by relatively insignificant issues such as rally sizes.
The Vice President baited Mr. Trump throughout the debate, saying his events are boring and attendees often leave midway through. Notably, Harris also told the former President, who frequently cites his close relationships with world leaders, that they are laughing at him behind his back because of his tendency to respond to “flattery.”
Harris called Trump “weak” and a “disgrace” who was “fired by 81 million people” in 2020. She also mocked him for mentioning the fictional character Hannibal Lecter at his rallies and for frequently praising dictators because he wanted to be one. Trump hit back, telling Harris she had flip-flopped on her policy positions so much that “everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window.” The former President said Harris had adopted so many of his proposals that he was “going to send her a MAGA hat.”
