Trump torches Democrats at Arizona rally, warns they will ‘destroy our country’ ahead of midterms

President Donald Trump addressed a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, where he told supporters that Democrats would "destroy our country" and urged voters to back Republican candidates across the ticket. The event, held at Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport, featured Representative Andy Biggs joining Trump onstage; Biggs told the crowd to "vote Republican top to bottom."

Trump used parts of his remarks to invoke his February State of the Union address, combining separate moments from that speech in his account to the Arizona crowd. He also criticised Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs during the event, framing the coming midterms as a test of who should govern the country. At the rally Trump recalled awarding the Medal of Honor to retired Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams and used that memory in his address to the supporters gathered in Bullhead City. He singled out congressional candidate Mark Lamb, calling him "a friend of mine" and urging voters to send Lamb to Washington to represent Arizona's 5th Congressional District. The programme included a tribute to Kirk, whom Trump said would have been 33 that day, and the president used the occasion to press Arizona voters to change the state's political direction. The New York Post reports that Trump said, "On election night, Arizona is going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it."

Photographs accompanying the account show supporters listening as Trump spoke at the airport venue. The New York Post's text frames the rally as part political mobilisation and part personal recollection, with Trump mixing recent ceremonial memories and campaign appeals. Other outlets listed in headlines also reported Trump warned Democrats would "destroy" the country at an Arizona event, but the full article text available here is from the New York Post and supplies the detailed onstage participants, quoted lines, and the locale of the rally.