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Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US, on Sept. 3.Photographer: Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg

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By Gregory Korte and Mark Niquette

September 4, 2022 at 2:14 AM UTC

Updated on

September 4, 2022 at 2:46 AM UTC

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Donald Trump used a Pennsylvania rally to vent his anger at an FBI search of his Florida home and President Joe Biden’s attack on political extremism, staking his claim as his successor’s election rival in 2024.

Declaring Biden an “enemy of the state,” Trump mixed support for two Republican candidates with a rejoinder to the president’s speech 48 hours earlier in Philadelphia, where Biden denounced what he called anti-democratic forces within the Trump movement.