Forget the economy and inflation, Trump pinpoints the 'real issue' that's 'destroying the country'

Prescot Valley, Arizona: At a rally in Arizona, Donald Trump pledged to hire 10,000 additional border patrol agents if re-elected as he doubled-down on  immigration.

The former president said he would ask Congress to fund a 10% pay raise for border patrol agents and offer $10,000 retention and signing bonuses to ensure adequate staffing. Trump was flanked by leaders of the Border Patrol union, who have endorsed him, as he said: “We’ll hire and keep the Border Patrol agents that we need.”

“I think that the number one issue that (the polls) have down is the economy and inflation, and I agree they’re horrible issues. But, I think the number one issue is the destruction of our country, what’s happened at the border. I really think that’s actually the number one issue,” said Trump.

In recent weeks Trump has called for the death penalty for any migrant who kills a US citizen and labeled immigrants who commit violent crimes as “monsters” and “vile animals".

Ironically, earlier this year, Trump helped block a bipartisan border security bill that proposed hiring 1,500 additional agents and 1,600 asylum officers. His opponents, Kamala Harris and President Biden, accused him of sabotaging the bill for political gain.

In another blow to the Harris-Walz ticket a new DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll shows that she is tied with Donald Trump in the likely tipping point state of Pennsylvania, but that would not have been the case -- she would have been ahead -- had she picked the state's governor, Josh Shapiro, to her ticket instead of Walz from Minnesota.

When likely voters were asked who they would back, 47% said Harris/Shapiro, one point more than said they would vote for Donald Trump and JD Vance. But when it was Walz on the ticket, the rivals were tied 47 points apiece.