Trump and Vance holding Atlanta rally on Saturday, days after VP Harris appeared in Georgia
Former President Donald Trump is returning to Atlanta for a campaign rally.
His campaign recently announced that Trump and his vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance will hold a rally on Saturday, August 3 at the Georgia State Convocation Center, the same location that Kamala Harris hosted a rally on Tuesday.
The rally will be a ticketed event. Attendees can register for up two tickets per mobile number. Doors will open at 1 p.m. ET and Trump is slated to begin his remarks at 5 p.m.
In the announcement, the campaign highlighted two likely themes of the rally: the economy and immigration policy.
The pair blamed Harris and her “woke policies” for Georgia’s current levels of inflation: “Under Harris and Biden, the average Georgia household is losing over $1,060 a month with inflation at 21.4%. Thanks to Harris’s war on American energy, average gas prices have reached record highs in the state.”
The announcement also referenced the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed while jogging on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The suspect in Riley’s death is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old migrant who entered the United States without authorization from Venezuela.
Melissa Cruz is an elections reporting fellow who focuses on voter access issues for the USA TODAY Network. You can reach her at [email protected] or on X, formerly Twitter, at @MelissaWrites22.
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