Harris and Trump both held rallies in Georgia: Only one looked and sounded like America
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It was a tale of two rallies both held in the same venue and in the same week. On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris held a massive rally at Georgia State University’s Convocation Center. Come Saturday night, Donald Trump held a rally at the same venue. That is where any similarities between the two ended. In fact, the contrast between these two rallies perfectly encapsulated the vast difference between the choice our nation is presented with for President in 2024.
The Harris rally—packed with more than 10,000 people—was filled with people who were “overwhelmingly young, women and a majority of people of color" as Axios reported. Before Harris took the stage, the audience heard from a diverse array of speakers including both of Georgia’s US Senators—Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first ever Black Senator and Jon Ossoff, the state’s first Jewish Senator. The crowd was treated to a performance by rapper Megan Thee Stallion and the campaign also played songs from Whitney Houston to Justin Timberlake to Kool and the Gang.
Once Harris took the stage, the electricity was palpable as the vice president shared a vision for our nation that was forward looking. “We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity to build a business, to own a home, to build intergenerational wealth, a future with affordable health care, affordable childcare, and paid leave,” declared Harris.
Harris also took on Trump, but based on facts. For example, she explained that Trump blocked the bipartisan immigration bill, explaining, “which goes to show Donald Trump does not care about border security; he only cares about himself.”
She rightfully slammed Trump’s criminal convictions and for being a sexual predator, declaring, “So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.” Harris later taunted Trump for refusing to debate her, with the line, "If you got something to say, say it to my face."
And Harris leaned into what is the theme of the campaign, vowing to the audience after laying out Trump’s backwards looking vision for the nation, “We’re not going back. We’re not going back.” In response the cheering audience responded, “We’re not going back! We’re not going back!”
Then came Trump’s rally Saturday. Even before convicted felon/adjudicated rapist Trump took the stage, he was setting the tone for the night by using social media to slam the GOP Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp for failing to be blindly loyal to him and even attacking Kemp’s wife for saying she wouldn’t vote for Trump this November. (In response, Kemp defended his family against Trump’s attacks on social media.)
The rally itself could not look more different than Harris’s at the same venue just days before. First, Trump’s audience was “overwhelmingly white” per Axios and was far older. Before Trump spoke, the audience heard in essence a “whites only” playlist of artists like Kid Rock, ZZ Top and Martha McBride. And the speakers who warmed up the crowd continued that trend, including open white supremacist Marjorie Taylor Greene and alleged couch humper, Senator JD Vance. (Okay, there’s no proof he ever humped a couch but it’s hard to let go of that comedy gold!)
Then came Trump with his bitterness and bile on display. Trump’s focus was continuing his pre-rally attacks on GOP Gov Kemp-as well as the GOP secretary of state Brad Raffensperger--for disloyalty, declaring, “In my opinion, they want us to lose. If we lose Georgia, we lose the whole thing and our country goes to hell.” Trump returned to that theme again and again, stating about Kemp, “He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy and he’s a very average governor.” Trump even took time to trash the very state he was in saying that under Kemp’s leadership, “The state has gone to hell.”
Only to Trump is it a winning strategy to demonize a popular GOP Governor and tell people their state is “hell.” And worse for Trump, articles after the rally were focused on Trump’s slams of Kemp, not criticism of Harris such as this Politico article headline, “Trump reopens old feud in Georgia. Some Republicans are scratching their heads.”
The other focal point of Trump’s speech was his embarrassment that there were empty seats in the venue-obviously realizing that Harris had none. Trump bitterly (and falsely) claimed that the school where the event was held would not let people in. He then built on that lie to lay the groundwork to claim the 2024 election will be rigged, exclaiming, “If they’re going to stand in the way of admitting people to a rally, just imagine what they’re going to do on Election Day.”
Finally, Trump turned to Harris. But for this portion of the rally, Trump basically just read lines off the teleprompter with little enthusiasm. Trump served up cliché, recycled lines like, calling her “dangerously liberal” and the cringeworthy, “Lyin Kamala, You’re fired!”
At one point Trump even admitted, “We have to work hard to define her,” adding, “I don’t want to even define her.” Defining Harris in a way that helps his campaign would take preparation and focus by Trump. However, as we know Trump hates work, preferring to wing it like he did earlier in the week with his racist claim that Harris had just recently “turned Black.” (Trump did not repeat this racist smear Saturday.)
The remainder of the Trump rally was filled lie after lie in an effort to fearmonger. One particular whopper was his BS claim that if Harris wins “40 or 50 million illegal aliens” will enter the United States and suburbs will be overrun with “savage foreign gangs.” But facts have never mattered to Trump—nor does his base demand he tell the truth.
Trump concluded his meandering 90 plus minute speech with a litany of empty promises to take America back to the time when it was “great.”
In contrast, Harris ended her rally with a call to action for those who refuse to go back but instead want to move forward:
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Do we believe in freedom?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Do we believe in opportunity?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Do we believe in the promise of America?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And are we ready to fight for it?
AUDIENCE: Yes!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And when we fight —
AUDIENCE: We win!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — we win!!
She is 100% correct. If we fight, we win. It’s time to fight!!
It was even worse than that. And I only heard bits and pieces.
He claimed that these " savages" who murder ( women who tell their husbands..?...) " Darling, I'm going out for a loaf of bread" To which apparently the checker?.? Somehow calls the husband and says sorry about the bread?.? She's dead. Killed by a savage from the Congo. He mentioned the Congo numerous times. His attacks on people crossing the border have never included the Congo.
WTF?????? How can this revolting racist tirade not be reported as such?
I've given up waiting for the press OR justice.
A presidential candidate thanking Putin is fucking TREASON. He's aiding providing comfort to our enemies which is defined by the constitution as treason.
Every institution that is supposed to protect us is failing us. Deja Vu.
Are enough people sick of him yet?