Trump criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "madly" and "hated" for his campaign speech in Dallas on October 17.
"The more achievements the United States has, the crazier and more angry the Democrats will become. They are crazy. They are crazy," US President Donald Trump said at the election campaign in an American aviation center in Dallas, Texas yesterday.
The statement was made after Trump and his Democratic leaders on Oct. 16 had a heated argument at a White House meeting. During the meeting, Pelosi and Democratic leaders criticized Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria.
She also accused Trump of paving the way for Russia to intervene further in Syria and declared "to him, every path leads to Putin". In response, Trump called Pelosi a "third-class politician," prompting Democratic party members to stand up from the conference room.
"Nancy is crazy. She is crazy," Trump continued to criticize the Speaker of the House of Representatives in a speech in Dallas, while affirming that his administration helped achieve a ceasefire between Turkey and the people. Kurdish militia in Syria without "losing a single drop of American blood".
He acknowledged his strategy was "unusual" but it would work. "Sometimes you have to let them fight first, then they will realize how difficult the situation is," Trump declared.
House Speaker Pelosi was one of the most active Democrats in Trump's impeachment investigation over his phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky in July. investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the top candidate for the Democratic Party and also Trump's opponent in the race to the White House in 2020.
Trump called the Democratic Party's impeachment efforts "a witch hunt" and asserted that the party was trying to reverse the results of the 2016 election against him. "At stake in this war is the survival of American democracy itself. That's what Democrats want, but we will never let it happen."
Trump appeared in Dallas on October 17 in order to rally his core voters in Texas, one of the states that Trump favored during the race for the White House in November 2020. Texas has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. However, observers anticipate the rise of pro-Democratic voters in the big cities of states like Austin and Housston could change the landscape in the 2020 election season.
In just October 17 in Texas, Trump raised $ 5.5 million for his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee.