Donald Trump will hold a rally and speech in North Carolina on Wednesday that his campaign is touting as a major economic speech. The event, set in a Democratic city surrounded by heavily Republican mountain districts, has both national and local implications for the former president.
In the meantime, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is launching a $90 million advertising campaign over the next three weeks to introduce the Democrat to voters and sharpen the contrast with Trump. The media buy marks her campaign’s biggest investment yet in voter messaging, with just 2 1/2 months until Election Day in November.
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The Democratic National Committee will offer a schedule of trainings, panels and other programming it calls “DemPalooza” during the party’s convention in Chicago next week. The name is a play on the Lollapalooza music festival that Chicago hosts each year.
The DNC said Wednesday that “DemPalooza” events will be held daily at McCormick Place. The convention itself will be held at the United Center.
“DemPalooza” events will range from trainings on how to use organizing tools to polling briefings and skills workshops. The DNC says these programs are part of its and the Harris campaign’s efforts to organize and reach voters in a changing media environment and to offer Democrats an opportunity to take what they’ve learned back to the communities that will determine the presidential election in November.
“DemPalooza” will also include an expo with booths and interactive areas where attendees can make friendship bracelets, get a “Kamala Harris” manicure, listen to podcasts or watch performances by local artists.
Vice-Chairman Kamala Harris has a perceived advantage over the former president Donald Trump A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Americans trust Trump slightly more when it comes to the economy and immigration.
Nearly half of Americans say “committed to democracy” and “disciplined” are qualities that better describe Harris. About 3 in 10 say those qualities better describe Trump.
About 4 in 10 say Harris is someone who “cares about people like you,” while about 3 in 10 say that about Trump. About 4 in 10 say “honest” better describes Harris, and 24% say quality better describes Trump.
Both parties are in a race to define Harris for who she is. prepares to accept the Democratic nomination at the party convention next week. The poll suggests she carries some of the same baggage that weighed down President Joe Biden before he ended his reelection bid, but that she has advantages over Trump when the two are compared head-to-head. And Democrats stay much happier about her candidacy than about Biden’s.
Kamala Harris’ The presidential campaign is launching a $90 million advertising campaign over the next three weeks to introduce the Democrat to voters and increase the contrast with Republican Donald Trump.
The media buy marks her campaign’s biggest investment yet in voter messaging, with just 2 1/2 months until Election Day in November. It comes on the heels of a $50 million worth of ads booked last month, shortly after Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the party’s leader.
Harris’ campaign is backed by a hast of fundraising since the switch, and is now in the process of spending the money in an attempt to counteract what was overwhelming spending by Trump and his allies in the days after Biden withdrew.
According to Harris’ team, the ad campaign will focus on the vice president’s personal story, her career as a California prosecutor, her commitment to standing up to powerful interests and a contrast with what the team called Trump’s “dangerous, extreme agenda.”
Donald Trump will have another chance to revisit his presidential comeback on Wednesday, this time with a rally and speech in North Carolina that his campaign is framing as a major economic argument.
The event, set in a Democratic city surrounded by mountainous counties where Republicans hold a strong majority, has both national and local implications for the former president.
Republicans expect Trump to direct his random arguments and attacks at Vice President Trump Kamala Harris since the Democrats named her as their presidential candidate. Twice in the past week, Trump has blown such an opportunity, first in a one hour press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, when in a 2 1/2 hour conversation on the social media platform X with CEO Elon Musk.
The latest effort comes in the state that delivered Trump’s closest statewide victory four years ago and is expected to be a battleground again in 2024.