JD Vance holding campaign rally in Newtown, Pa. Saturday
By Joe Brandt,
27 days ago
NEWTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance is set to speak Saturday at a Bucks County athletic club owned by a prominent GOP delegate .
The Trump campaign said Vance will speak shortly after 5 p.m. at a rally at the Newtown Athletic Club's Sports and Events Center on Pheasant Run. Vance is expected to criticize Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris on the pause on approving new liquefied natural gas exports as well as inflation.
"Pennsylvanians have faced record-high gas and diesel prices, all thanks to Kamala's destructive war on American energy," a news release from the Trump campaign said.
The county has favored Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1988, and even in 2016 , when Trump carried Pennsylvania. But Republicans are working in Bucks County to turn that tide. In July, the GOP told CBS News Philadelphia that 3,000 new voters had registered as Republicans and pushed the party into the majority in the county.
Joe Biden carried the county by about 17,000 votes in 2020 while Hillary Clinton had a slimmer margin of 2,699 votes in 2016.
"Bucks County has rejected Donald Trump and his MAGA allies in every election since 2016 because they know he only fights for himself and doesn't care about us," Onotse Omoyeni, director of the Harris campaign's rapid response team in Pennsylvania, said in an emailed statement.
"JD Vance's visit will be an important reminder of the extreme, job-killing policies he and Trump are promising to bring back if re-elected. Trump and JD Vance's extreme Project 2025 agenda would ship jobs overseas and spike taxes by more than $4,000 per year, and to protect our economy and our families we need to reject him again and elect Vice President Harris," Omoyeni continued.
Democrats are making their own push this weekend rallying voters in the Philadelphia area. The Harris campaign says award-winning showrunner Shonda Rhimes will campaign with Gov. Josh Shapiro at a rally for reproductive rights in Montgomery County on Saturday afternoon. Then on Sunday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will help kick off a canvassing event along with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
I read the stupid comments on this saying that he and Trump are only for the rich. That’s a total lie. What about when Harris went to California and campaigned and got all that money over $100m and the one in NY for another $100m. You people have no idea what you’re talking about. TRUMP 2024!!!
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