Trump asks the crowd in Pennsylvania: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

Former President Trump joined Ronald Reagan during a lively outdoor battlefield rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday and asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

Trump was quick to sharply criticize the Biden-Harris administration, calling the current White House an “a.” “Nightmare of inflation, invasion and humiliation.

The Republican presidential candidate also commented on his attendance at the Al Smith Dinner at Catholic Charities on Friday evening, where Vice President Kamala Harris was conspicuously absent.

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Trump recalled: “She’s the only one in years, decades, who hasn’t shown up. She didn’t show up.”

“And (Harris) ended up making a pathetic tape,” Trump said. “And frankly, it was an insult to Catholics because she was actually trying to denounce them or the religion when they started talking about a certain topic the other day when she said, ‘You’re in the wrong place.'” right here, what was basically a strike against Christianity and a strike against religion because it doesn’t know what the hell it’s saying.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump was joined by a number of speakers during Saturday night’s rally, including former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown.

“I want to say that I know the media is going to think me and Trump are crazy for letting me speak here,” Brown said. “But I want to make this clear. It’s not us. It’s you.”

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The crowd was both large and optimistic, with many children attending the rally dressed as the former president and local steelworkers wearing hard hats.

Trump opened his nearly two-hour stump with a tribute to his late friend and PGA golf legend Arnold Palmer.

Supporters listen as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

“But there was no one who had that magic. It was a thriller. He was incredible. “He knew how to win and he knew how to just do what electrified the crowd,” Trump said. “If I had him here with me right now, this crowd would go completely crazy. They would say: Trump, get off this stage. We want Arnold Palmer to speak.”

Trump said he was good friends with him and named one of the mansions on his property in Doral, Florida, after Palmer, a Pennsylvania native who died in 2016.

Trump focused much of his energy and attention on the Keystone State, particularly manufacturing jobs.

“For most of American history, Pennsylvania was the commercial and industrial powerhouse of the United States. But year after year, globalist radical left-wing politicians and incompetents like Kamala Harris have waged war against your Commonwealth,” Trump said.

Former President Trump was greeted on stage by Pennsylvania steel workers who presented him with a commemorative hard hat. (Pool)

“They destroyed your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, attacked your oil and gas jobs, and sold your manufacturing jobs to China and other countries around the world. “Under the Trump administration, we will take back what is ours,” he said.

Rank-and-file steelworkers from Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley Works union were welcomed to the stage by Trump, who presented him with a commemorative hard hat.

“The president saved the steel industry with tariffs, you saved it with tariffs,” said one steelworker. “And you are my hero, and you are the greatest president of all time. We love you. That’s why Trump’s steelworkers and the Mon Valley Works base wanted to support you.”

Trump plans to introduce a “Built in America” policy if he wins in November, which would bring more manufacturing jobs to Pennsylvania and across the country.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

“So if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole damn thing, right? And starting on day one of my new administration, I will end Kamala Harris’s war on energy in Pennsylvania. Because, you know, she’s going to ban, you know, she’s going to go.” “Ban fracking, right? 100%,” Trump said.

“You know, she was against fracking, against all that stuff. And then suddenly, about a year and a half ago, when she was coming down in the polls among voters, she said, “I really like fracking,” he added.

According to a Fox News poll in late September, 60% of registered voters in Pennsylvania support fracking.

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“Pennsylvania, if you want to end this disaster, you have to go out and vote,” Trump said. “You have to go and vote. Get everyone you can.”

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.