Trump holds rally in Charlotte, first since Biden exited race

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : "You know, I was supposed to be nice," Trump said.
62% : Days later, Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination and gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, where his ear -- injured in the shooting -- was bandaged.Wednesday's rally also is the first since the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who said she took "full responsibility for the security lapse" that led to a gunman being able to get so close to Trump at the outdoor event in Pennsylvania.
60% : Mr. Biden held a campaign event in Raleigh the day after his disastrous June debate with Trump.
58% : This year, Trump had planned to hold his first rally since the start of his hush money trial in Fayetteville, but that event was called off due to inclement weather.
57% : North Carolina is a state Trump carried in both his previous campaigns but by fewer than 1.5 percentage points over Mr. Biden in 2020, the closest margin of any state Trump won.
50% : North Carolina is a swing state that Trump has carried in the past, but Democrats have seen as pivotal.
48% : The former president's trip to the state shows he's still concerned about keeping it in his column this November, even as his team reaches for wins in traditionally Democratic-leaning states like Minnesota, which Trump is set to visit on Saturday.
43% : She shouldn't be allowed to run for president with what she's done," Trump told supporters.
38% : Trump called in from his private plane instead.Democrats also have been working to win North Carolina, where the party's most recent presidential win was former President Barack Obama's 2008 victory, despite recent GOP dominance.
32% : "Trump opened his speech by claiming that Mr. Biden "quit" the race because "he was losing so badly in the polls," and alleged, without evidence, that "the leaders of the Democrat party, in a very undemocratic move, the bosses, they said 'either get out or we're going to throw you out using the 25th Amendment,'" a common attack line from Republican lawmakers in recent days.
30% : In the days immediately following the assassination attempt against him, Trump indicated he may tamp down on some of his rhetoric.
27% : Is that OK?"Trump has also hedged on plans for an expected debate with Harris, first saying that he wanted Fox News, not ABC, to host the matchup he had originally scheduled for September with Mr. Biden.
25% : Trump stumped heavily in North Carolina even as the COVID-19 pandemic wore on, while Mr. Biden largely kept off the physical campaign trail and did not personally visit the state in the last 16 days of the election.
18% : Trump also accused her of being just as responsible for Biden's policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, which saw illegal crossing arrests reach record highs at the end of 2023, and repeated his pledge to conduct mass deportations with the help of local police.
17% : "She's now trying to get rid of her record," Trump said, referring to Harris as a "border czar," a term that has become popular among Republicans, but one that isn't rooted in a factual basis.
14% : "Now we have a new victim to defeat, lying Kamala Harris...the most incompetent and far-left vice president in American history," Trump told the crowd, adding that she was "the ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe.
8% : On Tuesday, Trump appeared to tweak that message again, saying on a call with reporters that he'd like to debate Harris "more than once" but not committing to appearing at the debate currently on the books and saying he'd only agreed to debate Mr. Biden twice, not Harris.
7% : Trump called Harris a "radical left lunatic" and called her "crazy" for her positions on abortion and on immigration.

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