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Donald Trump is coming back to Arizona.
The former president and 2024 Republican nominee will visit the southern border on Thursday and hold a rally in Glendale on Friday, his first trip to the battleground state since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee.
Trump will appear at Desert Diamond Arena, the same venue where Harris held a rally last week. The event will be co-hosted by conservative groups Turning Point PAC and Turning Point Action.
“President Donald Trump and JD Vance will fight to ease the financial pressures placed on households and re-establish law and order in Arizona!” the Trump campaign said in a news release. “We can Make America Great Again by tackling lawlessness head-on, ceasing the endless flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border, and reversing the detrimental effects of inflation by restoring people’s wealth.”
Trump’s visit will happen during the same week as the Democratic National Convention, which runs Monday through Thursday in Chicago.
News that Trump was planning an Arizona trip was first reported by The Arizona Republic.
A day before his rally, Trump will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County. He will hold an immigration event in Montezuma Pass, his campaign said Sunday. Sierra Vista Mayor Clea McCaa and Police Chief Chris Hiser will join Trump for his border visit, according to a city spokesperson.
Arizona is an “emerging problem” for Trump, one longtime political observer said recently, and Trump’s own allies have said he should be in the state more often.
The presidential race has shifted significantly in Arizona, where Trump lost by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2020.
A poll from The New York Times and Siena College released Saturday showed Harris gaining ground in Arizona. Harris had 50% of support in the poll, while Trump had 45%. It’s a significant shift from earlier this summer when President Joe Biden was losing to Trump in Arizona polls.
Harris has energized Democrats in Arizona, her campaign says. The vice president rallied 15,000 supporters on Aug. 9 in Glendale with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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As Republicans hammer Democrats on immigration on the campaign trail, the Harris campaign is touting new data that show encounters at the southern border are down, thanks to a recent executive order that Biden signed.
“Crossings at Arizona’s border continue to decrease thanks to the executive actions of the Biden-Harris administration. The data is clear: Vice President Harris is the only candidate who has a record of standing up for Arizona border communities like mine and can be trusted to support and fix this issue,” Bisbee Mayor Ken Budge, who supports Harris, said in a written statement.
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, was in the state several weeks ago for his own Glendale rally and border tour. Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, toured an unfinished portion of the border wall in Cochise County. He pinned the nation’s immigration woes on Harris during remarks there.
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