Trump Battles Kamala Harris to Rally in North Carolina

Until now, Donald Trump has been watching from the sidelines as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris galvanizes and reinvigorates Democrats by assuming the role of presumptive presidential nominee. This Wednesday, Trump is back in the game.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, will hold his first campaign rally since Kamala emerged as his all-but-certain Democratic opponent in the 2024 election. The former president will attend an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, a key battleground in the Nov. 5 election.

Trump’s campaign has insisted it is ready for Kamala’s candidacy, arguing that she serves as U.S. President Joe Biden’s proxy on economic and immigration policies that have contributed to his declining popularity among voters.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll released Tuesday showed the recently renewed race in a statistical tie.

The poll, conducted in the two days after Biden decided to withdraw from reelection, showed Kamala Harris with a two-point lead over Trump, 44% to 42%. Other recent national polls have shown Trump ahead.

Biden, who has returned to Washington after isolating at his home in Delaware due to Covid, will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night to explain his reasons for withdrawing from the race on Sunday after intense pressure from his party.

A person familiar with the matter said the legacy-defining speech was still being worked on Tuesday night when Biden returned to the White House after recovering in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he wrapped up his reelection bid with a letter posted on social networks.

On Tuesday, Trump took the unusual step of speaking to reporters on a conference call to underscore his campaign’s line of attack on the border, saying Kamala was partly to blame for a record influx of migrants.

Biden tasked Kamala with working with Central American countries to help stem the tide of immigration, but she was not responsible for border security.

“She’s a radical leftist, and this country doesn’t want a radical leftist destroying it,” Trump said on the call. “She wants open borders. She wants things that nobody else wants.”

Kamala Harris did not call for the removal of border controls.

On Wednesday, Kamala will travel to Indianapolis to speak at an event hosted by the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, which was founded at Howard University, the historically black college Kamala attended. She hopes to leverage the sorority’s multigenerational network of black women to turn out Democratic voters in large numbers in November.

Source: Terra

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