In speech, Trump tries to limit the fallout of the Arlington clash

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.
38% : My people said, 'Don't do it, sir, don't do it,'" Trump told the crowd.
33% : After the rally, Trump was set to travel to Washington to speak at an event hosted by Moms for Liberty, a conservative activist group focused on education.
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.
26% : Over a digressive 13 minutes, Trump insisted that he had not been seeking publicity Monday when he posed for photographs in a heavily restricted area of the cemetery where veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are buried.
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% : Accusing President Joe 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.
21% : Trump said twice in his Pennsylvania speech that his advisers had suggested he should not bring up the cemetery dispute.
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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