Trump says he 'shouldn't have left' White House despite losing 2020 elections, calls Democrats 'demonic'

In yet another provocative remark, just days ahead of the November polls, former US President Donald Trump said that he should have stayed in the White House, despite losing the 2020 elections against current US President Joe Biden. The proclamation from the former president came during one of his final rallies of the campaign in Lititz in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Trump made the comment shortly after he denounced public polls that showed him behind his rival Vice President Kamala Harris. The Republican presidential nominee went back to his most problematic impulses and referred to Democrats as “demonic”. “We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left,” Trump said. “I shouldn’t have left, I mean honestly, we did so well, we had such a great – ” he exclaimed before abruptly cutting himself off.

Once the business-mogul-turned-politician spoke about the 2020 polls, he could not stop. He soon revived debunked conspiracy theories from the controversial polls and suggested anew that voting machines would be hacked, and efforts to extend polling hours in Pennsylvania – what his own team has pushed for – amounted to fraud.

Trump slams Iowa polls and others 

The former president also took out time to slam a series of recent polls notably a Des Moines Register poll in Iowa that put him four points behind Harris in the state. While the poll does not suggest that the vice president would outrightly win the Republican stronghold, it indicated that Harris is leading the race there.

“You really do inflict damage, like you do with this person in Iowa,” Trump said of the Selzer poll done for the Des Moines Register on Saturday. “It is called suppression. They suppress. And it actually should be illegal," he added.

He went on to slam media, suggesting that he would have no concerns about reporters being shot at if there were another assassination attempt against him. “To get to me, somebody would have to shoot through fake news, and I don’t mind that much, because, I don’t mind. I don’t mind,” Trump said from behind panes of bulletproof glass, which was followed by laughs from some supporters.

With inputs from agencies.