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    Donald Trump pitched his shutdown proposal to Atlanta voters on Monday, leaning heavily on immigration and anti-trans rhetoric.

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    WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump — while attacking all sorts of opponents from the vice president Kamala Harris to former first lady Michelle Obama — claimed on Monday that Democrats are using “disgusting” rhetoric to define their campaign as he sought to woo Georgia’s all-important voters just a week before the 2024 election.

    Trump’s rally at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta was aimed at getting voters to the polls ahead of the Nov. 5 runoff election. “We love Georgia,” he told the crowd to cheers at the opening of his roughly 75-minute speech.

    Georgia is among seven pivotal swing states Trump and Harris believe they are the key to their paths to victory. trump card he almost lost Georgia in 2020 to President Joe Biden — neither the former president nor Harris showed a clear advantage in the state in recent polls.

    Trump’s latest pitch to voters included attacks on transgender people, tax cut proposals, a dose of nostalgia and lots of talk about immigration.

    Here’s a look at some key moments.

    Anti-trans message

    In the final days of the election, the Trump campaign questioned Harris support for the transgender community and leaned towards anti-trans messages. Monday’s rally was no exception.

    At the top of his speech, Trump called transgender issues a “big deal” and told supporters, “We don’t want transgender operations everywhere … We don’t want men playing in women’s sports.”

    He delivered similar lines throughout the speech, suggesting his campaign might view the issue as a rallying cry for Trump’s base. Pro-Trump ads argues that Harris is for “them/them” and says he favors “sex changes for prisoners.”

    But polls have shown that transgender rights issues are not top of mind for most voters. A Gallup poll since early October, it found that transgender rights ranked as the least important issue on voters’ minds in 22 issue areas, including the economy, inflation, abortion, taxes and energy policy.

    Criticism of Harris’s rhetoric

    Trump used the rally to counter attacks from Democrats who have compared his past rallies, actions and comments to those of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.

    Harris described Trump as a “fascist“Last week, after John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, used the term to describe the former president in interviews with the New York Times. Kelly also said that Trump has made admiring comments about Hitler on several occasions.

    “The way they talk is so disgusting, just horrible,” Trump said at his rally on Monday. “This is the kind of outrageous rhetoric that has led to two assassination attempts in the last three months.”

    Democrats pointed out that it was Trump who attacked Harris’ intelligence, ethnicity and competence. He labeled his politics as fascist in August and called her a fascist on Monday.

    While decrying the rhetoric against him, Trump told the Atlanta crowd about Harris: “She’s a fascist, okay? She’s a fascist.”

    Earlier, Harris said Trump is “obsessed with his grievances, with himself and with dividing our country,” citing Sunday’s rally in Madison Square Garden as the latest example.

    “It is absolutely something that is intended and fuels the attempt to divide our country,” Harris said.

    Care fee reductions

    If elected, Trump proposed tax reductions for everything from overtime pay to social security benefits. A tax credit for family carers can now be added to the list.

    During his rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump announced the new policy proposal for family caregivers and repeated it to voters in Atlanta on Monday night.

    “I will support a tax credit, a full tax credit for family caregivers who care for a parent or loved one. It’s worth it,” Trump said to cheers.

    The proposal comes as Trump and Harris try to court two major voting blocs — seniors and women, who comprise the majority unpaid family carers in the country.

    Harris committed earlier this year expand Medicare coverage to include home care costs for the elderly if she wins.

    MAGA nostalgia

    If Trump wins, he will not be able to run for re-election again under the Constitution. If he loses, he has signaled that he will not launch another presidential campaign in 2028.

    The weight of his last eight years in the political spotlight and the end of his campaign days loomed large on the former president’s mind Monday night.

    “We’re almost done with it. We’ve been doing this together for nine years,” he said, adding that it would be “very hard” for future Republican presidential candidates to match the size of the crowds.

    Trump has described his rise to political fame as a “unique situation” and “the biggest political move.”

    Trump called Michelle Obama ‘disgusting’

    Trump called former first lady Michelle Obama “disgusting” for comments she made about him at an event for Harris over the weekend.

    During a speech in Michigan on SaturdayObama described Trump as “erratic” and said he was a convicted felon and in “obvious mental decline,” among other criticisms.

    Trump responded, saying “it was a big mistake that he made.” He did not elaborate.

    Trump Upends Democrats’ Immigration Record

    Immigration has been a central focus of Trump’s campaign since he launched his first bid for the presidency in 2016. And he stayed on message in the final days of the race.

    Trump criticized the immigration policies of Biden and Harris and brought up the death of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on campus in February. A 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant was arrested on charges of murder and assault, and federal authorities said he entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and had been arrested at least once before.

    Trump used Reilly’s death as an example of violent crimes committed by immigrants in the US – even though they have been found to be committing crimes in less than half the rate of US-born citizens, according to a study by the National Institute of Justice.

    Rallying cry to get out the vote

    With margins as close as in Georgia, every vote counts. Trump pressed rally-goers on the importance of their vote and at one point took a real-time voice poll to see how many people had already voted.

    “We’re way ahead, but get out and vote. We can’t take any chances,” Trump said.

    During a religious summit near Atlanta earlier in the day, Trump encouraged Christian voters — a critical part of his constituency — to go vote.

    Contributing: Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY

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