WASHINGTON – Seven weeks before Election Day, the campaign machines of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump appealed to coveted voters in swing states with events and rallies specifically targeting black and Generation Z voters, rural voters and conservative Christians.
The Trump campaign turned its attention to Michigan on Tuesday as the former president prepared for an evening town hall meeting in Flint – his first event since a second suspected assassination attempt. attempt about his life on Sunday, this time on his golf course in Florida.
Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance, spoke at a rally at a barn in Sparta, north of Grand Rapids, on Tuesday afternoon, where he again spoke about a migrant group from Haiti living in Springfield, Ohio. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians live legally in the United States under ephemeral protected status.
The migrants, “mostly from Haiti, were dropped off in Springfield,” Vance said, mispronouncing the name of the Caribbean country.
Trump and Vance continue to face hard Test for spreading lies that Haitian migrants had eaten domestic cats and dogs in the city. Trump made this accusation last Tuesday in the ABC News debate which attracted 67 million viewers.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Monday ordered State police are expected to search schools in Springfield, which have been the target of repeated bomb threats since the city came into the national spotlight.
Campaigns seek media attention
Vance answered several questions from local Michigan reporters on Tuesday and said he did so to distance himself from Harris, whom he accused of fearing the “friendly American press.”
Vance made the comment less than an hour before Harris sat down for a public discussion with a three-person panel of the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. Trump’s interview with the association in July became notorious after he said Harris “accidentally became black during her political career.”
Both campaigns sought coverage in the news media.
Harris sat for a Private lessons with Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate on Friday. The same day, Trump hosted a press conference at his Trump National Golf Course in Los Angeles.
Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, traveled to central Georgia on Tuesday, where he recorded an interview with a local Macon news anchor for WMAZ-TV and spoke with staff at one of the campaign’s field offices.
According to the campaign, the Harris-Walz operation in Georgia includes 28 offices and over 200 employees.
Fried Chicken Biscuits and Tax Relief
Walz stopped at the long-established H&H Soul Food Restaurant in Macon, where he ordered a roll with chicken, bacon jam and pimento cheese, according to reporters traveling with him.
Walz used the opportunity at the restaurant to promote Harris’ program, which includes tax simplification for petite businesses and the granting of a $50,000 tax deduction for start-up costs.
He also attended campaign events in Atlanta before traveling to Asheville, North Carolina, for a rally on Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, the Harris team released a statement in response to a ProPublica report about 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman, who died in Georgia because she was denied urgent medical care due to the state’s strict abortion ban.
“This young mother should be alive, raising her son and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Harris said in the statement. “This is exactly what we feared would happen when Roe was struck down.”
When asked about the ProPublica report earlier Tuesday, Vance said he would “like to know a little more” about Thurman’s death.
“I have never spoken to a single pro-lifer who does not believe in exceptions to cover this exact case,” Vance told a local Michigan reporter.
Six states have abortion bans that do not allow exceptions for health reasons. after to KFF Health News’ Abortion Law Tracker.
On Monday evening told told an audience at the Georgia Faith and Freedom Victory Dinner in Atlanta that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021 decision to overturn Roe, which established federal abortion law, was a “victory.”
“I stand here as a candidate for vice president and say that the Republican Party is proud to be a party that stands up for life and for families,” Vance said, promising that a second Trump presidency would bring investments in fertility treatments, prenatal care, maternal health and newborn care costs.
Trump spent Monday evening promoting his modern cryptocurrency company in an interview on social media platform X with his sons. The Trump family revealed a crypto company on Monday under the name World Liberty Financial.
Young voters
The Harris campaign marked National Voter Registration Day Tuesday with a so-called “all hands on deck” mobilization to reach newborn voters.
The campaign will send celebrities, influencers and organizers to college campuses, basketball tournaments and “bracelet-making events” – apparently in reference to the Swiftie friendship bracelets after the pop star endorsed Harris last week.
Organizers expect a “targeted presence” at Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Pop star Billie Eilish and her brother, songwriter Fineas O’Connell, supported the vice president on social media on Tuesday, urging their followers to visit the Democratic Party’s IWillVote.com platform.
Other celebrities used in the campaign to reach university students include actress Jane Fonda and star scientist Bill Nye.
Stops on the east coast
The election campaign continues at full speed on Wednesday, and the candidates and their representatives will stop in the eastern United States.
- Harris will speak at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.
- Trump will hold an evening rally in Uniondale, New York
- Vance will speak in Raleigh, North Carolina this afternoon
- Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will speak at campaign events in New York City
