The candidate for US Republican President Donald Trump believes he has a significant lead over Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
"I think I'm ahead, and significantly more than people think,'' he said at a rally in New Jersey, quoted by the AP.
According to Trump, Harris is a "radical left-wing socialist". "It is even more radical than socialism," said the former US president.
Earlier this summer, polls showed Trump significantly ahead of US President Joe Biden. Later, however, Biden announced that he was withdrawing from the presidential race - in his place, the Democratic candidate was Vice President Kamala Harris.
In recent weeks, according to some polls, she has managed to close the gap with Trump. Earlier this week, for example, a Fox News poll showed Trump ahead of Harris by just 1%.
Trump has said that if he wins the election, he will increase oil production to lower energy prices.
"I will immediately reduce prices from the first day of the presidency, we will drill for oil. It will lower the prices of everything," Trump said at a press conference in New Jersey.
In this way, the former president used in his speech the slogan "Drill, baby, drill", which the Republicans used in the presidential election in 2008. The slogan calls for an increase in drilling for oil and gas.
Trump has promised that if he returns to the White House, his administration will cut energy prices in half within the first 12 months.
According to the former president, the US has more oil reserves than any other country, "including Russia and Saudi Arabia". Trump also said that he is not against renewable energy, but he does not see it as the solution to all of the country's energy problems.
"I am for clean air, clean water. But we can't destroy our country because of this," said the Republican presidential candidate.
Donald Trump spoke in favor of the need to limit the migration flow and promised to solve the problem of illegal immigration if he wins the election.
"We're going to close the border, we're going to stop this invasion, we're going to bring the illegals back,'' Trump said at a press conference in New Jersey.
In addition, Trump criticized the immigration policies of current President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
"She was responsible for solving the border problem. And she allowed 20 million people to come to us. And I think it was actually much more (...). She wants to give all of them citizenship and access to free health care," the former US president emphasized.
In March, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning Biden's border policy. The president and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were accused of creating "the worst border security crisis in the country's history".
The resolution calls on Biden to speed up the removal of migrants and reforms to the asylum system. In February, he supported a bipartisan Senate bill that included sweeping border security reforms, but the document was rejected by House Republicans as too weak.
At the end of June, Axios reported, citing data from the US Census Bureau, that Hispanics would account for 70% of US population growth in 2023.