PERFECT!
Posted on 07/03/2019 1:07:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
resident Trump plans to hold a campaign rally in North Carolina later this month as he seeks to buoy his reelection bid in a key battleground state.
The president is set to headline a rally in Greenville, N.C., on July 17, his reelection campaign announced Tuesday night. Trump won the Tarheel State by about 3.5 points in the 2016 election and is seeking to shore up support in the area.
The rally is scheduled for the same day as former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill. Mueller's highly anticipated appearance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees follows a subpoena from House Democrats.
"President Trump looks forward to returning to North Carolina and sharing the successes of the Trump presidency," Michael Glassner, the Trump campaign's chief operating officer, said in a press release.
"North Carolina has one of the hottest economies in the nation, and that is directly attributable to the pro-growth, deregulatory policies of this administration. With one of the largest military populations in the nation, President Trump is eager to talk directly to the military men and women who have made this country the greatest on earth," he added.
The president has already come out swinging against the July 17 hearing and could use the rally to push back on Mueller's testimony, which the president has claimed is part of Democrats’ attempt for a “do-over” of the 2016 election.
The Mueller hearing is expected to focus on several aspects of the former special counsel's sprawling report released earlier this year, which detailed dozens of contacts between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-linked figures and 10 “episodes” of possibly obstructive behavior regarding ongoing probes into Russia's election meddling.
“Robert Mueller is being asked to testify yet again. He said he could only stick to the Report, & that is what he would and must do. After so much testimony & total transparency, this Witch Hunt must now end. No more Do Overs. No Collusion, No Obstruction. The Great Hoax is dead!” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.
Beyond a presidential battleground, North Carolina is also home to one of the most widely watched Senate races in 2020, as Sen. Thom Tillis (R) seeks to win a second term in the upper chamber.
Trump endorsed Tillis late last month. Tillis faces a primary challenge from businessman Garland Tucker, who has said the one-term incumbent is insufficiently supportive of the White House.
Neither the Trump campaign nor Tillis’s office immediately responded to a request for comment from The Hill regarding whether Tillis would appear at the rally with Trump.
Greatest President since Washington.
Isn’t that a crime? Or obstruction of justice or something?
Russia, Russia, Russia!
Is there a rally schedule online anywhere? I really hope he makes it to the Denver area sometime in the campaign. Some say CO is lost. I’m hoping CO is still salvageable.
Will he say nice things about the RINO senator that needs to be primaries? What’s his name?
This is what the papers say about him:
Trump loyalist Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) has spent his past two years in office faithfully voting for the Trump agenda. But in the 2018 midterms, Coloradans overwhelmingly rejected the Trump-led Republican Party, voting for Democrats up and down the ballot.
Now the GOP is scared. According to the Denver Post, Republican insiders are reporting that Gardner is their biggest worry: "U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's re-election prospects are grim unless the party can develop a new message that appeals to both the Trump loyalists and the independent voters who dislike the president."
Gardner, a far-right, hardline conservative up for re-election in 2020, is heading into the next election cycle as one of the nation's most vulnerable incumbents, and for good reason: His views and alignment with Trump put him at odds with a rapidly changing state.
I have been living in the area only about 18 months now. You think he is a RINO? Seems like he is a supporter. Seems like Trump would want someone who has voted for his agenda, but maybe you know something I don't.
Tillis and Barr both need to go.
I’d take the verbal swipes as long as the go along come crunch time. I do believe Sasse is still one of us percentage wise.
The author Axelrod states Trump seeks to “buoy his reelection.” First, Trump is riding a wave. Second, never trust a progressive Democrat journalist. Third, and most important, history teaches us never to trust a Marxist named
Axelrod.
I don’t think for as long as I live, will there ever be another President that can troll the Liberals better than Donald Trump...he is without peer....
I’ll be surprised if that cadaver Mueller even shows up on July 17th.
He has no need to shore up support. He just does it to be out among the people.
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