GLENDALE, Arizona August 10 :-
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Arizona on August 9 to campaign for president, with the hope that her less than month-old campaign might weaken Republican contender Donald Trump in the Western states. After announcing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, the Democratic presidential contender embarked on a weeklong journey to energize voters in seven states that might determine the outcome of the November 5th election.
On August 9, Hillary was in the Phoenix region for a campaign office visit with volunteers and a voter outreach event as part of her tour.
Harris received the support of the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the country, LULAC Adelante, and its political action committee while she was on the road. It was the first time the group had ever endorsed a president.
Trump also made an appearance in the West, speaking at a rally in Bozeman, Montana, a state that the Republicans have won in every presidential election since 1996. This year, the state is hosting a heated campaign that might determine the party in control of the United States Senate in 2025.
A mechanical problem allegedly forced Trump's plane to change course and land at a different airport in Montana."I just landed in a really beautiful place: Montana," Trump remarked in a social media video from his jet, which did not mention a mechanical issue.
We are very excited about Tim Sheehy's campaign for the United States Senate, and I'm here today to help collect money for him and, more importantly, to show my support for him. A rally is in the works. Plus, you're going to have a blast.The Democratic senator from Montana, John Tester, is running for reelection and will face off against Sheehy.
More than 15,000 people, including several pro-Palestinian protesters who cut Harris off mid-remark, met him in Phoenix. Liberals who disagree with Harris's stance on Israel's response to the Hamas attack on October 7 have voiced their dissatisfaction. "The president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done and bring the hostages home," Harris said in her opening statement. "So, I respect your voices, but we are here to now talk about the race in 2024."
"If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that," she had declared earlier in the week when protesters stopped her address at a rally in Michigan. If not, I will speak. Despite the fact that Harris' campaign audiences have recently matched his own, Trump had made fun of their size on August 8.
He made an unfounded comparison between the crowd that heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 in Washington, DC, and the one that greeted his supporters on January 6, 2021, the day they seized the U.S. Capitol. While introducing Harris, Walz made the joke, "It's not like anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything." In response to the Trump supporters' chants of "lock him up," Walz spoke out against their behavior. "No, better than that, beat the hell out of him at the ballot box."
"Yeah, the courts will deal with that," Harris said to the same chorus later. In November, we will triumph. In November, we will triumph. We will also take care of that. Requests for further clarification from the Harris campaign went unanswered for the time being. Both Trump and his supporters in the crowd frequently screamed that Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016, ought to be imprisoned.
Democrat Joe Biden narrowly defeated Trump in 2020 in Arizona and Nevada, two Western states with very divided Democratic and Republican populations. In November, the Democrats are hoping to capture both states. One third of each is Latino, a population that is important to the two major parties. The most recent polls in both states show a very tight contest.
By August 10th, Harris was expected to make his way to Sin City in Nevada. She received Friday's endorsement from the influential Culinary Union Local 226 as well, which represents employees in the gaming and hospitality industries in the area. Trump shifted his attention to Georgia, another contested state, on August 9. According to AdImpact, a company that monitors political advertising, his campaign spent $37.2 million on new television ads, its largest expenditure in a single day this election year. Seven battleground states will have the commercials air. In the Southerly state where Harris' rise has caused polls to narrow, Trump's team is spending $23.8 million on advertisements, more than any other state.
