Trump and Vance head to battleground Georgia looking to put recent struggles behind them
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Former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance are set to rally supporters Saturday in Georgia, a battleground state that has taken on new importance in the wake of the shake-up on the Democratic ticket.
Former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance are set to rally supporters Saturday in Georgia, a battleground state that has taken on new importance in the wake of the shake-up on the Democratic ticket. Earlier this week, Atlanta symbolized exactly how much the race had changed since President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee. After she’d locked up the support of party delegates and announced that she’d raised more than $200 million in her first week as a candidate, Harris rallied 10,000 supporters in the city’s Georgia State University Convocation Center, telling them that her path to the White House ran through the Peach State. Trump and Vance will campaign in the same venue Saturday, but without the fundraising spike, increased momentum or improved chances of winning a crucial state. Biden became the first Democrat to win Georgia in nearly 30 years when he beat Trump by just under 12,000 votes in 2020. Trump was indicted last year by a Georgia grand jury on charges surrounding his efforts to overturn the results of that election, including a call asking Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” the exact number of votes he needed to win.
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