Former President Donald Trump holds rallies in Tempe, Arizona, and Las Vegas on Thursday. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a rally Thursday night in the Atlanta suburbs with former President Barack Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen.
Here’s the latest:
Seats are filling up at Arizona State University’s hockey arena in Tempe, where Trump supporters are waiting to hear from the former president at his second rally in the state in as many weeks.
Trump will speak under a giant banner that says “VOTE EARLY!” It’s part of his continued efforts to back-peddle from his strategy four years ago to push his supporters to vote in person on election day. The overwhelming majority of Arizona voters use a ballot they receive in the mail, which take longer to process as election workers verify, they’re legitimate.
Volunteers passed out red, white and blue signs with the number 47, showing their support for the man they hope will replace Joe Biden, the 46th U.S. president.
Jerry Matthews, 21, said Trump’s background as a businessman makes him a strong negotiator, and he believes Trump will bring an end to wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Matthews lives in Biloxi, Mississippi, and came to see Trump in person for the first time while visiting family in Arizona. He predicted Trump is headed for a comfortable victory.
“I think it’s going to be a lot bigger than the polling predicts,” Matthews said. “A lot of the polling is major cities. Everyone I work with, regardless of skin color, they’ve all been leaning toward President Trump and/or just not voting in general. I’ve met very few Biden-Harris supporters.”
Asked at the outset of the Thursday interview how he believed Chinese leader Xi Jinping would “handle” Harris if she were to win in November, Trump quipped, “Like a baby.”
“He’d take all the candy away very quickly,” Trump said. “She wouldn’t have any idea what happened. It would be like a grand chess master playing a beginner.”
Trump later said he watched Harris’ Wednesday night town hall on CNN. The former president graded Harris’ performance poorly and said the vice president is “like a child almost.”
Later, he added, “She’s an empty vessel. But she’s beautifully pushed around by a very smart, very powerful, very liberal, viciously liberal but very, very smart, powerful party called the Democrats.”
State Sen. Rob Cowles says it marks the first time he’ll ever vote for a Democrat for president.
Cowles, who represents the Green Bay area, said Thursday that Donald Trump “is a totalitarian and very much a fascist.” Cowles calls his decision to vote for Harris “one of the most important things I’ve done.”
The iconic artist, whose career spans over five decades, will perform at a Thursday rally in Georgia for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.
Springsteen will be joined at the event by Harris and former President Barack Obama, the campaign said, along with actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry and DJ Mix MasterDavid. This will be the first time Obama and Harris will headline an event together.
The event is the first in the campaign’s “When We Vote We Win” concert series that aims to encourage Harris supporters to vote early in the 2024 election.
Democrats, led by Biden, won Georgia in 2020, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the southern state since Bill Clinton in 1992. Harris’ campaign is hopeful she can keep the state blue in 2024, with polls showing a neck-and-neck contest with former President Donald Trump.
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