A defensive Trump tries to limit the fallout of the Arlington clash - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump and Harris have ramped up their efforts in Pennsylvania, perhaps the most crucial battleground state.
45% : During his 90-minute speech in Johnstown, Trump coined a term for his meandering off-the-cuff remarks -- and insisted that they were strategic.
39% : Accusing President Biden of being responsible for the deaths of the service members whose graves Trump was visiting, the former president said at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, "They tell me that I used their graves for public relations services, and I didn't."He said conspiratorially at one point, "That was all put out by the White House."
38% : My people said, 'Don't do it, sir, don't do it,'" Trump told the crowd.
30% : I said, 'Absolutely.'"Trump insisted he had not taken the photos for the publicity.
28% : Trump visited the cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport in 2021 during the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan.
24% : Instead, Trump has found himself struggling this week to fend off new criticisms of his long-scrutinized treatment of America's veterans and fallen service members.
23% : Trump made very few comments specifically about education, and he did not speak extensively about his education policy.
23% : Trump, who often refers to "transgender insanity" on the campaign trail, spoke admiringly about conservative parents who have become active in school board politics across the country around gender issues, sometimes disrupting meetings.
21% : Trump said twice in his Pennsylvania speech that his advisers had suggested he should not bring up the cemetery dispute.
18% : Trump said the country was "being poisoned" by illegal immigration, adding that "schools and children are suffering greatly" because migrants in some cities had been temporarily sheltered in schools.
15% : "During his speech, Trump also made familiar attacks on Harris and reiterated his pledge to invest in production of American steel and coal, industries that have historically dominated western areas of Pennsylvania, including Johnstown.

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