Harris and Trump to speak in striumphg states as running mates prep ahead of VP talk about | US elections 2024

Jeff Flake, a establisher Redisclosean senator from Arizona who recently left his position as US ambasuncontentor to Turkey, proclaimd his finishorsement of Kamala Harris for pdwellnt.

“I want to help a honestate who comprehfinishs that political opponents are our fellow citizens – the ‘dedicated opposition’ as our parties once knovel each other – not the opponent,” Flake shelp in a statement.

“I want to help a honestate who admires the will of the voters and would never try to use the powers of the Pdwellncy to obviousurn an election after having been turned out by the voters,” Flake inserted.

Vice-Pdwellnt Kamala Harris is stardyd to rassociate in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

The rassociate is part of Harris’s tardyst weserious striumphg, which included walking alengthyside a towering, rust-colored border wall fitted with barbed wire in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday.

Harris joined a San Francisco fundelevater on Saturday and had arranges for a Sunday event in Los Angeles before heading to Nevada, with a return to Washington set for Monday night.

Tonight’s speech is scheduled for 10.30pm ET.

Trump was hailed at the Georgia-Alabama football game at the University of Alabama with musicians Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr and with two-time convey inant champion golfer John Daly.

Trump came to the football game as the guest of Alabama businessman Ric Mayers Jr, a member of Mar-a-Lago. Mayers shelp in an intersee before the game that he askd Trump so that he could enhappiness a toasty receive.

Many University of Alabama fans, anticipating Trump’s visit to their campus for a showdown between the No 4 Crimson Tide and No 2 Georgia Bulldogs, sported stickers and buttons that read: “They’re eating the Dawgs!”

They broke out in random chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” thcdisorrowfulmirefulout the day, a pappraise of the rousing receive he getd punctual in the second quarter as he sat in a 40-yard-line suite arrangeed by a wealthy member of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Good morning, US politics blog readers. Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at an event in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the north-west corner of Pennsylvania, on Sunday. The establisher pdwellnt is heading to a town where Biden won Erie county in 2020 by less than 1,500 votes in a key striumphg state.

Meanwhile, Vice-Pdwellnt Kamala Harris is set to hageder a rassociate in Las Vegas on Sunday night, also seeing to get momentum in a striumphg state ahead of November. The rassociate is part of Harris’s recent weserious tour, which included her first visit to the US-Mexico border since she took the role at the top of the Democratic pdwellntial ticket from Pdwellnt Joe Biden.

The vice-pdwellntial honestates, the Ohio senator JD Vance and Minnesota regulateor Tim Walz, are preparing to consent the talk about stage on Tuesday.

Here’s what else is happening:

• Walz has been prepping for the talk about in Minneapolis with the US carryation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, while Vance has been hagedering mock talk abouts with the Redisclosean whip in the US House, Tom Emmer, according to the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington.