The Trump Remark on Protecting Women and Minority Rights: A Preliminary Report from the Charlotte, N.C., Campaign of Vice President Donald J. Trump
When Trump said no one raised their hand, he said that one woman raised her hand. He joked that it might have been Nancy Pelosi, or a woman who transitioned, and shared shouted comments from rally-goers.
He recounted asking a previous rally crowd about the remark: “Is there any woman that would be offended by the fact that I said ‘I am going to protect you as your president’?”
“What I do is very controversial. I don’t care at all. I do the right thing,” Trump said. “I want to protect women, I want to protect our men, I want to protect children. I want to make sure nobody is hurt.
At his afternoon rally in Gastonia, N.C., Trump repeated his calls for the death penalty for any migrant who kills any American citizen or law enforcement officer.
In a Saturday post on Truth Social, Trump called Harris a “low IQ individual” and said that he was slumping to the finish line.
I would ask people who have not voted yet to not vote because he suggests that the integrity of our voting system is questionable, so that they don’t vote at all.
Harris campaign plans to air an ad during the football game between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions on Sunday that makes the point that Harris wants to be a president for all Americans.
Harris said at the Charlotte rally that bringing down the cost of living was her top priority. I will focus on that every day as president.
In her final days on the trail, Vice President Harris plans to focus on the specific things she hopes to do to improve the lives of Americans from all walks of life, according to officials from her campaign.
The Donald Trump Way: The Case for the State of North Carolina in the Run-Up of the 2016 General Reionization Disaster Declaration
Trump won 52% of the vote in the counties designated by FEMA as qualifying for assistance under its updated disaster declaration, according to an NPR analysis. And when the heavily Democratic Mecklenburg County is excluded, Trump won 63% of disaster-affected counties.
The last five decades have seen North Carolina on the GOP side of the ledger in presidential elections. This year, the state is not in a good position.
Both the Harris and Trump campaigns have invested considerably in the state — and the candidates are holding multiple events across the state on Saturday.
After a Saturday afternoon rally in Atlanta, Harris traveled to Charlotte for an event alongside North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and musicians Jon Bon Jovi and Khalid.
In 1976, the last time a Democratic presidential candidate did so, it was Barack Obama. Obama narrowly lost the state in 2012 despite a lot of attention.
Trump carried the state by three percentage points in 2016 and a point and a half in 2020 — but changing demographics could boost Harris’ chances here.
There has been rapid growth in the so-called Research Triangle in the last 20 years, home to North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading to an increase in the state’s population of college-educated voters – who are more likely to be Harris supporters.
Republicans have an advantage with white voters who do not have a college degree, and are more focused on reaching out to the conservative areas of the state that were hit hardest by Hurricane Helene.
The 2016 North Carolina and Georgia Trump Campaigns: Is the Election Sleared?” Musk-backed Ruling Out Musk’s Threat to Voting Machines
Americans have two days left to pick their new leader in a neck-and-neck presidential election likely decided by tens of thousands of votes in a handful of swing states.
Trump is going to hold a rally in Kinston, North Carolina on Sunday afternoon. He is also going to put on a third rally in Georgia, 2 hours north of Kinston. The former president is campaigning in North Carolina until the end of the election. Trump won North Carolina’s electoral votes in 2016 and 2020, but polls show an increasingly tight race.
During his speech at the Lancaster Airport, Trump told his supporters that this election is being stolen — a false claim he also made in the lead up to the 2020 election.
“We got a lot of crooked people out there — we’re fighting like a son of a gun,” Trump said while pointing to the press. “We’re fighting. They are fighting so hard to steal this damn thing. Look at what’s going on. Take a peek at what’s happening in your state on a daily basis. They’re talking about ways to extend hours.
The former president provided no supporting evidence of the election being stolen, but cast doubt on voting machines citing tech-billionaire Elon Musk, who is backing Trump and has used his ownership of X, the online platform previously known as Twitter, to push misinformation about the electoral process.
“The polls are just as corrupt as some of the writers back there,” Trump said. “They can make those polls sing. They talk about it. I’m up by 10 points in Iowa. I’m three down, according to a poll put out by my enemies.
“Kamala broke it, and we will fix it, and we’re going to fix it fast,” Trump said after arriving more than an hour late for his event. “America will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than ever before.”
Black women are the future: What will we do next? The case for the U.S. president’s 2020 presidential campaign without the media being harmed
Harris attended a church in a swing state for the fourth time in a row. She planned to stop at a restaurant in the Livernois district afterward, a neighborhood with a lot of Black-owned small businesses, and then campaign at a barbershop in Pontiac. On Sunday night, she will have a rally in East Lansing, home of Michigan State University.
Black voters and college students are key to the coalition the Harris campaign needs to get her across the finish line in states like Michigan, where the race is tight.
“Everyone must know that their vote is their power to determine the outcome of the election, and their vote will count. She told reporters that it did matter.
Harris said that the U.S. voting system can be trusted and that the United States elections have integrity.
In a statement following the speech, Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung said Trump’s comment “has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else.”
In his remarks Sunday, Trump suggested he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after his election loss in 2020 and joked about the media being shot during another assassination attempts against him.
“In these next two days, we will be tested,” Harris told the congregation at the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, in Detroit. “These days, we’ll demand everything we’ve got.”
Harris stopped by the barber shop. where she spoke with local leaders and Black men. She will hold a rally at the Michigan State University, home of the school.
For the fourth Sunday in a row, Harris attended a service at a Black church. She then worked the crowd at Kuzzo’s Chicken and Waffles in Detroit’s Livernois district, a restaurant owned by former Detroit Lions player Ron Bartell.