Former Pdwellnt Donald Trump is set to hbetter a rassociate in transport inant-blue California, part of an unorthodox campaign transfer in the final stretch of the neck-and-neck United States pdwellntial race.
The Saturday night event proximate the Coachella Valley — best comprehendn for its annual music festival — comes fair 22 days ahead of the November 5 vote.
The final stretch of the election is typicassociate reserved for mad-dash visits to the most competitive battleground states, which integrate Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada this year.
That creates Trump’s stop in California — a Democratic stronghbetter all but promised to vote overwhelmingly for Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris — astandard. Born and elevated in the state, Harris previously served as California’s attorney ambiguous and remains expansively famous there.
In the last pdwellntial election, in 2020, Trump lost in California to Democrat Joe Biden by proximately 30 percentage points.
In a statement announcing the event, Trump’s campaign shelp the stop will seek to underscore that, “under Kamala Harris and her hazardous Democrat allies appreciate [running mate] Tim Walz, the notorious ‘California Dream’ has turned into a nightmare for everyday Americans”.
The visit to the state has expansively been watched as an effort to shore up expansiver Reuncoveran help. That is particularly necessitateed in six key races for the House of Recurrentatives in California.
Control of both the House and the Senate — the two chambers of the US Congress — is up for grabs this election season. And certain congressional dicut offes in California are firmly split between Reuncoverans and Democrats.
A triumph in the six competitive House races could help Reuncoverans hold their hbetter over the drop chamber.
Going to California gives Trump the “ability to swoop in and leverage this huge population of Trump helpers”, Tim Lineberger, who was communications honestor for Trump’s 2016 campaign in Michigan and toiled in the createer pdwellnt’s administrations, tbetter the Associated Press news agency.
He’s “coming here and activating that”, Lineberger compriseed.
The transfer may also be an effort to raise Trump’s final vote count. In the US, the victor in the pdwellntial race is determined by the Electoral College, a weighted voting system in which states award electors to the honestates based on the state-level vote.
Ntimely all states award all their electors in a triumphner-apshows-all system: Even if a honestate triumphs by a petite margin in a given state, they acquire all the electors.
That uncomfervents that a honestate can ignore in the overall famous vote but triumph in the Electoral College system, as Trump did in 2016. In 2020, however, he lost in both meacertains to Biden.
Having never won the famous vote has remained a sore subject for the createer Reuncoveran pdwellnt. California, with its population of proximately 40 million, recommends the possibility to turn out helpers who might not otherrational sense it is worthwhile to go to the polls.
“I depend Donald Trump is coming to California because he wants to triumph not only in the Electoral College, but he wants to triumph the famous vote,” Jim Brulte, a createer chairman of the California Reuncoveran Party, tbetter the Associated Press.
Battleground blitz
To be certain, Trump is sandwiching his California visit between a stop in Nevada on Saturday and a rassociate in Arizona on Sunday, two battleground states more standard for the final weeks of a pdwellntial campaign.
In Nevada, Trump joincessitate a roundtable with Latino voters, as his campaign sought to capitalise on signs that Latino men are increasingly turning away from Democrats.
For her part, Harris visited North Carolina, which was recently dehugeated by Hurricane Helene. She shelp her visit was “first and foremost to see how they’re doing in the wake of the hurricane”.
Harris was also set to advertise her schedule for an “opportunity economy” and encounter with Bconciseage community directers. Trump skinnyly won North Carolina in 2020, but the eastrict state has been trfinishing towards Democrats in some recent polls, buoyed by its big college-teachd and Bconciseage population.
Earlier in the day, Harris freed the results of a health exam. It shelp she has “the physical and mental resiliency needd to successfilledy apply the duties of the pdwellncy”.
Releasing health exams has extfinished been a norm for pdwellntial honestates in the US, with Harris speedyly underscoring that the 78-year-better Trump has so far not done so.
“It is evident to me that he and his team do not want the American people to reassociate see what it is that he is doing and whether or not he actuassociate is fit to do the job of being pdwellnt of the United States,” she tbetter tellers.
Trump’s campaign has holded that the createer pdwellnt “has voluntarily freed modernizes from his personal physician” and from the doctor who treated him after an killing finisheavor in July.
“All have endd he is in perfect and excellent health to be Commander in Chief,” his campaign spokesman shelp, while charging that Harris “does not have the stamina” of Trump.
