Trump is hitting the campaign trail for a 2024 presidential run and will resume Thursday night in North Carolina with his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. During the rally in Charlotte, Trump said: “Now we have a new victim to defeat – lying Kamala Harris.”
It is Trump’s first campaign appearance since President Biden declared he would not seek re-election and endorsed Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as the Democratic Party nominee for 2024.
Harris has since had a wave of endorsements from Democratic governors, senators, House members, and other party leaders after Biden endorsed her.
Harris locked up the nomination late Monday, winning a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention and raising $100 million in just over a day after Biden announced her.
Recent polls show Harris neck-and-neck with Trump.
Recalling his assassination attempt during the campaign rally and talking about Harris, Trump mused: “I was supposed to be nice. Something happened to me when I got shot. I got nice. If you don’t mind, I’m not going to be nice.”
Trump went on to call Harris “the worst vice president in American history, a “radical left lunatic,” and branded her as “incompetent.”
Trump also claimed that Biden’s announcement that he was ending his run for re-election is the result of poor poll numbers.
Trump continued blasting Democrats as anti-Democracy, adding: “these are nasty people, the Democrats.”
Before the rally, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said even though Trump’s now facing a new opponent, the GOP’s strategy “does not change … at all.”
“We have been running our race, and we are going to continue to run our race,” Whatley emphasized in an interview.
