Former President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to propel the US into a new “golden age” in his final appeal to voters ahead of Election Day.
“My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” the Republican nominee told supporters in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the penultimate speech of his 720-day-long campaign.
“With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces — and lead America, and indeed the world, to new heights of glory,” Trump declared.
“We’ll help the world – a lot of people think we’re isolationists, we’re not – but we want the world to appreciate what we’re doing. They have to appreciate that we’re helping them,” he noted.
Trump, 78, vowed to “end inflation,” rapidly “stop the invasion of criminals coming across our border,” and “strengthen our military” following the Harris-Biden administration “giving a big chunk of it to Afghanistan” when it ceded the Middle Eastern country to the Taliban.
“I will restore peace in the world and I will rescue the American dream,” the 45th president promised. “Together, we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country, and we will launch the most extraordinary economic boom the world has ever seen.”
“This will be the golden age of America,” Trump said of what he has in store for the country, if elected on Tuesday.
Ahead of his nearly two-hour-long remarks, Trump aides described his Steel City speech as his “closing message” to voters nationwide.
The former president will deliver a final pre-Election Day speech late Monday in Grand Rapids, Mich.
“If you vote for Kamala [Harris], you will have four more years of misery, failure and disaster,” Trump warned. “Our country may never recover.”
“Vote for me and I will deliver rising wages, soaring incomes and a colossal surge of jobs, wealth and opportunity for Americans of every race, religion, color, and creed – every one of them,” he pledged, promising cheaper groceries, higher paychecks, safer streets and richer communities.
“Your future will be brighter than ever before,” Trump envisioned.
Trump charged that his 60-year-old Democratic opponent is unfit for the presidency because of her handling of the border crisis, which he called an “egregious betrayal.”
“Over the past four years, Kamala has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted upon the people,” he said. “She has violated her oath, eradicated our sovereign borders [and] unleashed an army of gangs and criminal migrants from prisons and jails.”
“The day I take office, the migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins,” Trump vowed, re-upping his goal to “liberate” cities overrun by migrant gangs and launch the largest deportation program in US history on his first day in office.
The former president racked up several key endorsements on his final day on the campaign trail, including from former foe Megyn Kelly, podcaster Joe Rogan and the son of legendary Puerto Rican Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player Roberto Clemente.
“He will be a protector of women and it’s why I’m voting for him,” Kelly, who made a surprise appearance at the Pittsburgh rally, said with Trump by her side.
The former Fox News host said immigration was her “number one” issue in the election and she encouraged attendees in the key swing state to “vote Trump and get ten friends to vote Trump too.”
The ex-commander in chief likened the state of the race to a football team ready to run out the clock.
“We have the ball. It’s ours to win,” Trump said.
“The only thing I ask is that you go out and vote, because if you vote, we’re going to win.”
