“The crowd at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas roared as Trump received the NRA’s endorsement before he took the stage,” wrote Fox News.
“Trump thanked the ‘great patriots’ for the endorsements, but reprimanded the ‘rebellious bunch’ for not voting.
“But one thing I’ll say, and I say it as friends, we’ve got to get gun owners to vote because you know what? I don’t know what it is. Perhaps it’s a form of rebellion because you’re a rebellious people, aren’t you?,” the former president said. “But gun owners don’t vote. What is that all about?”
“If gun owners would vote, we would swamp them at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he continued “So, I think you’re a rebellious bunch. So let’s be rebellious and vote this time.”
It wasn’t just the gun talk that got attention, however. Trump also made an interesting debate demand of Joe Biden,
“I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump said at the Minnesota Republican Party’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner Friday. “I am, no I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union, he was high as a kite,” noted The Hill.
Trump has previously stated in a radio interview that Biden was “all jacked up” at the beginning of his State of the Union address, as well as “higher than a kite.”
The former president and Biden rapidly agreed to two presidential debates in June and September on CNN and ABC on Wednesday. Biden and Trump now have just a little over a month before they participate in their first debate.
“They gotta be fair, I think they gotta be fair, and if they’re not, you know, you have to deal with it. Right? You have to deal with it,” Trump said at the dinner.
LAST NIGHT: Trump says he’s going to demand a drug test before debating Biden during @CNN debate moderated by ‘fake’ Jake Tapper (@jaketapper.) WATCH
“No, I have fake Jake Tapper of CNN. And they, they said, ‘Do you want to debate this guy?’ But, you know, and I’m going to, I’m… pic.twitter.com/Qft1vJLcD3
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 18, 2024
Trump recently challenged Biden to a third debate, but was quickly refused by the president’s reelection campaign.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chair of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign, told Newsweek: “Donald Trump has a long history of playing games with debates: complaining about the rules, breaking those rules, pulling out at the last minute, or not showing up at all – which he’s done repeatedly in all three cycles he’s run for president.”
The statement continued by explaining that Biden offered to debate Trump “anytime, anywhere, anyplace.” It noted that the president made “his terms clear for two one-on-one debates, and Donald Trump accepted those terms.”
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