The Republican presidential nominee faces a dramatically replaced 2024 race at his first rally since President Biden’s successful announcement Sunday that he will postpone his reelection bid and endorse Harris to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.
The president’s message to Harris sparked a wave of support for Harris from Democratic governors, senators, House members and other party leaders. On Monday night, the vice president announced that she had blocked her party’s nomination by securing a fair majority. about 4,000 delegates at next month’s Democratic National Convention. She also raised a whopping $100 million within 36 hours of Biden’s announcement.
THIS IS A MARGIN OF ERROR RACE BETWEEN TRUMP AND HARRIS
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at West Allis Central High School at her first crusade in Milwaukee on July 23, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)
And new polls conducted after Biden’s impeachment show a race for the margin of error between Harris and Trump.
The former president, referring to the assassination attempt he suffered a week and a half ago, said: “I wanted to be nice. Something happened to me when I shot. I’ve become kind. “
“If you don’t mind, I won’t be nice,” Trump said to applause from the crowd.
Trump was quick to target Harris, calling her “incompetent” and “the worst vice president in United States history. “
The former president worked several times to portray the vice president as a “radical leftist lunatic. “
Trump argued that Harris is “more liberal than [Senator] Bernie Sanders. Can you tell?”
Noting Biden’s surprise announcement, which came amid growing calls within the Democratic Party for him to step down in the wake of his disastrous debate against Trump last month, the former president said “he resigned because he wasted so much. ” in the polls. “
Trump argued that the Democrats’ pressure on Biden to suspend his reelection bid was “an undemocratic decision” and charged that “they are bad people, the Democrats. “
Reacting to Trump’s verbal attacks, Harris crusade spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement that “unity is over for Donald Trump; he has returned with an unbalanced, strange and rambling speech, complemented by praise for the ‘late great’ Hannibal Lecter”.
“But other Americans will not be fooled or distracted: next November’s election will be the timeline for Trump’s 2025 Bill to ban abortion nationwide and give himself unlimited, unchecked power; or Vice President Harris, who fights for freedom and guarantees each and every one of them American access to abortion is a smart opportunity,” Moussa argued.
Former President Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, leads a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 24, 2024 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Throughout the rally, Trump continually criticized Harris over the influx of migrants at the country’s southern border under the Biden administration, saying “she will destroy our country if elected, so we couldn’t possibly allow that to happen. “
Through Biden in 2021, Harris was tasked with leading diplomatic efforts to address the “root causes” of migration in the Northern Triangle countries. This has led him to be nicknamed “the border czar” among Republicans; the White House has rejected this description.
Biden’s leadership has blamed the crisis on congressional Republicans, who have failed to pass investments and reforms because of what it considers a “broken” system. Trump’s comments helped congressional Republicans vote against the measure.
Harris’ campaign, in reaction to Trump, points to policies he implemented while in power and recent symptoms calling for mass deportations at the Republican National Convention.
“The only ‘plan’ that Donald Trump has to protect our border is to protect the mothers of their children and from some xenophobic symptoms at the Republican National Convention. He rejected the toughest bipartisan border security deal in a generation because, for Donald Trump, it was never about himself. He can make up all the lies he wants, but the fact is that there is only one candidate in this race who will fight for genuine answers to help protect our country’s border, and that is Vice President Harris. Harris Crusade spokesman Kevin Munoz said.
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a crusade rally Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Harris is turning up the volume against Trump. In a preview of his argument against the former president, Harris highlights his police resume while highlighting Trump’s legal controversies.
“As many of you know, before I was elected vice president, before I was elected United States senator, I was the elected attorney general of California. Before that, I was a prosecutor on the court. In those roles, I took on authors of all kinds,” he said Harris on Monday at an event at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
“Predators who abused women, scammers who ripped off consumers, cheaters who violated regulations for their own gain. So listen to me when I say I know the Donald Trump guy,” he said. he said, highlighting Trump’s criminal trials and cases, many of which are ongoing.
Harris repeated the phrase the next day at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Trump responded Wednesday, saying, “I don’t think other people are going to buy it. “
He claimed that the vice president “was one of the worst prosecutors in history” and that she “destroyed San Francisco. “
Trump touted his law enforcement and won the endorsement of the National Association of Law Enforcement Organizations, while the group’s chairman, Michael McHale, joined the former president at the podium to officially endorse the Republican nominee.
Ahead of the rally, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said that while Trump now faces a new opponent in the most sensible spot on the Democratic ticket, the GOP strategy “doesn’t replace it at all. “
“We have run our race and we are going to continue to run our race,” said Whatley, a former North Carolina Republican Party chairman whom Trump chaired the Republican National Committee in March after winning the Republican nomination. he emphasized in an interview with Fox News.
What’s next for Harris, now that it turns out she’s blocked the Democratic nomination?
Whatley, speaking at the rally at Charlotte’s Bojangles Coliseum, noted that Trump and the RNC will relentlessly link Harris to Biden’s policies on border security, anti-inflation, crime and other primary issues in the 2024 election.
“Democrats don’t just have a problem with messengers, they have a problem with messaging. And Kamala Harris is doubling down on Joe Biden’s failed policies. It’s the Biden-Harris administration, the crusade Biden-Harris. Et is regaining that mantle,” Whatley argued.
The Republican National Committee chairman noted that Trump “absolutely united the Republican Party in a way that we haven’t had in generations. Now is the time to unite the country around this vision of making United States wonderful again. “wonder”.
Former President Donald Trump continuously criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for the border security factor at his rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 24, 2024 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Trump narrowly won in North Carolina in his 2020 election loss to Biden, and Democrats see an opportunity to change the state in November.
Trump’s visit to North Carolina is his moment in two months. The last time Trump was in North Carolina, he was watching NASCAR in Concord over Memorial Day weekend.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
The state is one of seven very important battlegrounds to be voted on in 2020 and is very likely to once heavily influence the final results of the 2024 presidential election.
“We continue to focus on the Blue Wall states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and the Sun Belt states of North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, where the vice president’s benefits to the young, Black and Latino electorate will be even greater. “It’s more important to our path to 270 electoral votes,” a memo from Harris’ crusade read hours before Trump arrived in North Carolina.
Former President Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at a rally on July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Michigan (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Whatley said Trump, in his speech in North Carolina, will have to “continue his verbal exchange with each and every American family, communicate to each and every American voter his vision of a greater United States. To repair our economy, to repair our position in the world and to be the one who stores that vision. “Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this story.
Get the latest updates, interviews, and more about the 2024 election campaign at our Fox News Digital election center.
Get the latest updates, interviews, and more political content from the 2024 election campaign from Fox News.