Donald Trump rallies the MAGA faithful in Arizona, touting new endorsement by RFK Jr.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump, along with a number of elected officials, candidates for office and political power players had been touting the event along with a "special guest" for the past few days.
53% : Harris not only erased the 5.5 percentage point deficit Biden had in the FiveThiryEight polling average in Arizona, she now leads by about 1.5 points, as she has begun to consolidate support among independent voters, Latinos and younger voters -- key blocs for any Democrat to win statewide in the Grand Canyon State, and groups that delivered Biden a narrow victory over Trump in 2020.
42% : "At the rally, Tino Rodriguez, who was helping his sister sell Trump-themed merchandise, said that the recent Democratic National Convention did nothing to sway him away from Trump.
41% : "I'm more about Trump than ever," Rodriguez said.
32% : Trump has also faced similar issues in other states where attendees were left out in the cold during a rally in 2020, leading to hospitalizations.
30% : The surprise guest not listed on official flyers for the event ended up being Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who earlier Friday suspended his campaign for president and endorsed Trump.
30% : Even though he has gone from a favorite to defeat Joe Biden to trailing Harris in the polls since she replaced Biden at the top of the ticket late last month, Trump didn't seem to make much attempt, if any, to appeal to voters who aren't already committed to voting for him in November.
29% : "He also went after me a couple of times, I didn't like it," Trump said of RFK Jr.
28% : "Trump spoke to attendees for over an hour, often launching into personal attacks that he claimed he was told not to do by his staff.
28% : Before Trump's rally, Democrats and a former top aide to the late Sen. John McCain rebuked Trump for his connections to Project 2025 and more.
25% : "Mayes said if Trump is elected, she and other Democratic AGs have "a plan" to fight back against proposals that make up Project 2025 and Trump's platform, including policies that would sharply restrict access to reproductive health care.
22% : Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk, whose organization hosted the rally, claimed that Harris will bring on "world war three" and called the attempted assassination of Trump by a disaffected conservative 20-year-old man, in which a rally attendee died from a gunshot wound, "the most witnessed televised miracle on television.
17% : "This is not a big deal at all," Gullett said about the endorsement, adding that Trump just "added another weird guy to the team of weird guys."
13% : Trump also once again attempted to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025, the collection of right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, to provide a roadmap for a second Trump administration to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power.
10% : Rodriguez also said that learning that Trump helped kill bipartisan legislation aimed at addressing issues at the border did not persuade him away from Trump at all.

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