The former president Donald Trump will spend the week visiting battleground states as a counterprogramming to the Democratic National Convention. He began Monday with remarks on the economy in York, Pennsylvania just hours before the DNC’s key speakers were scheduled to speak.

Trump’s speech was primarily focused on economic messages, but he intensified his attack on Harris. He called her “comrade Kamala”, accused her of promoting “communist” policy, and called her Stanford professor father a Marxist, saying that “he taught [her] well.”

“Her father was a Marxist Professor, and I think he taught his daughter well. You know, he is a Marxist Professor. Imagine? “Does anyone know this?” Trump asked.

“I wonder if the people who overthrew or took down Joe Biden knew what she was like, where she is from and her ideology. You could see a bit of it by this whack-job,” Trump continued.

Trump said to the crowd of less than 200 people, including many Precision Custom Components employees.

Trump’s economic agenda, which includes a promise to reduce taxes, eliminate regulation and implement tariffs for foreign goods, “punishes American workers” while rewarding outsourcers.

Trump said, “What I promise today is an overhaul of our tax regulations and trade systems that will be pro-American and promote domestic production while punishing those who send jobs and factories to Mexico or other countries.”

Trump promised that he would bring back the manufacturing industry and jobs for Americans under his administration.

Trump also advocated an expansion of U.S. nuclear power and oil production, while disparaging Harris’ past support for renewable energy and a ban on fracking.

In the last week, Trump has spoken about the economy in two separate events – one in North Carolina, followed by another in Pennsylvania – during which he alternated between on topic messaging, non sequiturs, and personal attacks against Harris and the former president Joe Biden.

JD Vance, the former president’s running mate and Ohio Senator, will continue to host issue-based campaign events in several states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arizona. The Trump campaign claims that their strategy is to “divide and conquer” by spreading out their ticket across the country in highly-contested states.

Trump’s campaign announced that each campaign stop would focus on an important election issue.

The campaign will then focus on immigration, crime, and safety, on Tuesday and Thursday, when the former President is expected to make a visit to the southern border. On Friday, it will highlight Trump’s “no-tax on tips” policy.

Harris’ campaign has been criticizing Trump’s absence of events in swing states over the past few weeks. Harris and her running partner, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited key swing states in the first week of this month.

Trump’s campaign has accused Harris of avoiding the press and offered media representatives several chances to speak with Trump’s surrogates, with the presumption that Trump or Vance would also take questions.

Harris hasn’t given an interview since the evening following the first presidential debate between Biden and Harris.

Trump’s allies, including Sen. Ron Johnson and Sen. Rick Scott will host daily news conferences in Chicago. The Trump campaign teased an “invited guest” to appear on Thursday, just before Harris accepts the Democratic Party nomination at the DNC.

In a press release, Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita, and Susie Wiles stated that they would be meeting Americans in battlegrounds across the nation to remind them of their ability to end inflation, secure our border, protect communities from violent criminals and Make America Great again.

The campaign claims that their strategy is to engage with ordinary Americans and tell their stories. They claim Harris and Democrats are going to bring in big names from “yesteryear” at the Democratic National Convention, including former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as former President Barack Obama, and former President Joe Biden.

According to the campaign, Trump will participate in media appearances and fundraisers during prime time programming of the DNC.

A campaign official stated that the “honeymoon period” of Harris is over.

“We think we have the winning messaging,” said a campaign official. “We believe that Democrats have a losing message,” said the official.