Trump, Vance coming to Georgia for a rally this weekend
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are set to hold a rally in Atlanta on Saturday, only days after the presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris was to hold a rally herself.
The rally will be held at 5 p.m. at the Georgia State University Convocation Center in downtown.
Harris will be in Atlanta today for her sixth trip to Georgia this year, but the first as the presumptive nominee.
Democrats feared Ga. was a lost cause; Harris will campaign here now
Democrats are betting that a fresh burst of energy and a surge in fundraising has helped make Georgia — the state that delivered Biden his narrowest victory margin in 2020 — a toss-up again.
Several polls came out last week that all show a potential Harris-Trump race to be virtual tossups. An NPR/PBS News Marist Poll conducted July 22, 2024, shows Trump leading Harris 46% to 45%, with 9% of voters undecided. Marist’s one-day survey of 1,309 adults was conducted on July 22, 2024.
In a Reuters poll, Harris has opened a two-percentage-point lead over Trump, as she continues to consolidate the Democratic Party’s after Biden’s stunning announcement of ending his 2024 reelection bid.
Those polls were released after Monday’s national poll by Quinnipiac University that also showed the potential matchup - Harris has not been officially chosen as the Democratic Party’s White House nominee - a dead heat.
Georgia outreach pushes to get Gen Z voters to polls
Just over three months remain until Americans decide which candidate will lead the country. And Georgia will play a big role.
The Quinnipiac poll, conducted from Friday, July 19-21, showed Trump receiving 49% and Harris getting 47% .
The Democratic National Convention is set to convene in Chicago Aug. 19-22, 2024. Harris seems to have secured enough delegates to win the nomination; now, all eyes are focused on who she will choose as her vice presidential running mate.
Republicans train poll Ga. watchers 100 days out from election
“The enthusiasm and energy on the part of Republican voters is through the roof,” Georgia GOP chief Josh McKoon said. “I mean, I’ve never really seen it like this before.”
Had Biden faced Trump, it would have been the first time two presidential candidates would have faced each other in consecutive elections since 1956, when GOP President Dwight D. Eisenhower again defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a repeat of the 1952 election.
Biden is the first sitting president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to end his reelection bid. He is also the first presidential candidate in modern political history to withdraw from the race after winning virtually all of his party’s delegates.
Georgia again in the spotlight less than 100 days before election
Several polls all show a potential Harris-Trump race to be virtual tossups. As a battleground state, Georgia is Ground Zero.
Also, for the first time since 1976, a general election presidential ballot will be without the names “Biden,” “Bush” or “Clinton” appearing on the ticket:
- Bush: George H.W. was Ronald Reagan’s vice presidential running mate in 1980 and 1984; he ran for president in 1988 and reelection in 1992, when he was defeated by ...
- William Jefferson Clinton - Clinton won the presidency in 1992 and won reelection in 1996. His wife, Hillary Clinton, was the Democratic White House nominee in 2016, when she was defeated by Trump.
- Joe Biden - Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate in 2008 and 2012. He ran for and won the presidency in 2020.
Trump’s selection of U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is the first time a so-called millennial has appeared on a presidential ticket.
If Trump wins in November, he will become the second former President - the first being Grover Cleveland in the 19th century - to be elected to the White House after losing his reelection bid.
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