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Donald Trump also used the event in Ohio to incite against migrants

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Former US President Donald Trump has warned of a “bloodbath” if he does not win the election.

However, it was unclear exactly what he meant by the remark, as he had actually just talked about risks for the US auto industry in his speech.

Trump said at a rally in Ohio on Saturday, referring to China's alleged plans to build cars in Mexico and then sell them in the United States: "You won't be able to sell these cars if I'm elected." Then he added : »If I am not elected, there will be a bloodbath as a whole, that will be the minimum, it will be a bloodbath for the country.

That will be the minimum.

But they won’t sell these cars.”

Biden's campaign team then declared that the "loser" of the 2020 election was again threatening "political violence."

"He wants another January 6th, but the American people will hand him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his propensity for violence and his thirst for revenge," the statement said.

On November 6, 2021, Trump supporters stormed the parliament building in the capital Washington, where Congress had met to formally confirm the victory of his successor Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

As a result of the riots, five people died.

Trump had previously incited his supporters during a speech with the unsubstantiated claim that the election victory had been stolen from him through massive fraud.

Trump's statements about an alleged influx of migrants caused further irritation.

He claimed that other countries were emptying their prisons of young people and sending them across the border.

"I don't know if you can call them 'people' in some cases," he said.

"In my opinion, they are not people." He later referred to them as "animals."

In Ohio, Trump also described the upcoming presidential election on November 5th as the “most important date” in US history.

"The date - remember, November 5th - will, I believe, be the most important date in the history of our country," said the 77-year-old.

Trump also repeated his accusation that his rival Joe Biden was the “worst” president in US history.

The Republican Trump and the Democrat Biden have now secured the necessary delegate votes in their parties' primaries to be sent back into the race in the presidential election on November 5th.

It is already clear that the election campaign will be one of the toughest election campaigns in US history.

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