Former President Donald Trump campaigned with GOP allies including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as he aims to shore up his base of support in the final days of the presidential race.
Carlson, along with Turning Point Action’s Charlie Kirk, hyped up a crowd of Trump supporters before the former president appeared onstage at a Wednesday evening rally in Duluth, Georgia.
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Ex-Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris, drew the ire of Carlson, who taunted her as “Dick Cheney’s creepy little daughter” before complimenting the crowd as law-abiding citizens.
“Is this a room full of freaks and misfits?” Carlson asked. “No, it’s not. This is a room full of people who love their country enough to obey its laws.”
Kirk slammed the Democratic Party as anti-religious when he took the stage. “The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates,” he said before Trump’s speech.
The rally reflects a campaign strategy that seeks to gin turnout among Republican voters and some anti-establishment Democrats. Harris has made overtures to the Left, but she is also betting her candidacy on winning over centrist Republicans.
The former president held two rallies in the Peach State on Wednesday in the hope of persuading Georgians to vote early, a change from his 2020 approach. The earlier event was a “Believers and Ballots” town hall in Zebulon.
On Wednesday evening, Trump also brought up ex-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, two former Democrats, to deliver speeches. While addressing the crowd, Trump gave shoutouts to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Dr. Ben Carson, the former secretary of housing and urban development.
“We have seen from the very beginning how much President Trump has been attacked, smeared, censored, the government weaponized against a candidate for president and a former president in ways that have never been seen in our country before,” said Gabbard.
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The former Hawaii lawmaker announced she was joining the GOP one day earlier while campaigning with Trump in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Trump praised the group as “great people” afterward. “But I especially want to thank Charlie Kirk because he is working so hard,” he added, referring to the efforts of Turning Point PAC, which hosted the Georgia rally, to turn out voters.
