DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump implored supporters at a Georgia rally to vote for him — with an early ballot or in-person on Election Day — in a state that will be crucial in the presidential election. “Just vote — whichever way you want to do it,” Trump said at the event Wednesday organized by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk and the group he founded.
But the rest of former president's speech and the lineup that preceded him framed the 2024 presidential election in stark terms. The Republican nominee insulted Democrat Kamala Harris while Kirk and other speakers used religious references and described the vice president and her Democratic Party as evil. Democrats “stand for everything God hates,” Kirk said, calling the Trump vs.
Harris choice “a spiritual battle.” “This is a Christian state. I'd like to see it stay that way,” Kirk told the 10,000 or so Georgians, who at one point joined Kirk in a deafeaning chant of “Christ is King! Christ is King!” Harris, who is a Baptist, used a CNN town hall in Philadelphia to describe Trump as fascistic, further crystallizing the nation's polarized posture with less than two weeks before the Nov.
5 election. The Trump campaign strategy of encouraging supporters to consider every voting method is a turn from when blamed his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden on mail ballots; the number of people voting early has surged this year. Over 1.
9 million voters have cast early ballots in Georgia, where Trum.
