PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — It's the final campaign weekend before the election and the presidential candidates are stumping in Pennsylvania, which is considered a key swing state. One of those stops for President Donald Trump was Newtown, Bucks County.
"And I'm thrilled to be back in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania so much," he said to supporters.
Several hundred gathered on the Bucks County farm where General George Washington's headquarters were during the American Revolution, for the president's Making America Great Again rally.
Trump told the assembled crowd that we are turning the corner when it comes to COVID-19, the economy is coming back, and to make sure to vote.
"I will continue to fight for you with every breath in my body, and with your support on Tuesday, we will show the world that for our country, for our children, and for the incredible people of Pennsylvania, the best is indeed yet to come," he said.
The president also called his opponent Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe," and that he is not the man for the job.
"Over the last four years, we've been building the biggest, strongest, and most secure middle class in human history," Trump said.
"We've built the most powerful military anywhere in the world. And over the next four years, we will make it even stronger, stronger like nobody thought even possible."
Meanwhile, Biden campaigned at a drive-in rally in Flint, Michigan, alongside former President Barack Obama.
The former vice president said Trump is at fault for the third surge in coronavirus cases in the United States, the largest wave yet.
"Imagine where we'd be if we had a president who wore a mask instead of mocking it," Biden addressed the crowd. "I can tell you this: we wouldn't have 9 million confirmed cases of COVID in this nation, over 230,000 deaths. We wouldn't be seeing a new record of cases we're seeing right now."
In a statement issued Saturday morning, Biden said, "President Trump's refusal to take COVID-19 seriously or be honest with the American people about the reality of the virus, has cost Pennsylvania thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
"Over four years in office, all President Trump has delivered to working families in Pennsylvania are broken promises. Pennsylvanians see these failures every day in the factories that have closed down in their town, in the empty chair at their kitchen table, and in the stack of medical bills that they are unable to pay."
Biden is expected to appear in Philadelphia on Sunday.