Trump's First Rally Following Attempt on His Life - Internewscast Journal (2024)

“I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” Trump said Thursday night in what was the longest convention speech in modern history at just under 93 minutes.

In 2016, Trump barely won Pennsylvania by a little over 10,000 votes. However, in the 2020 election, Democrat Joe Biden managed to flip the state back, winning by a margin of 154,000 votes to secure the presidency.

Accompanied by Vance, Trump is set to give a speech in Grand Rapids, a traditionally Republican area that has shown a shift towards the Democratic party in recent elections.

Vance specifically mentioned those places during his acceptance speech at the convention, stressing his roots growing up poor in small-town Ohio and pledging not to forget working-class people whose “jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war”.

Trump takes the stage alongside uniform of fallen firefighter

Biden has insisted he is not quitting, and has attempted to turn the focus back towards Trump, saying on Friday that Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention showcased a “dark vision for the future”.

The 81-year-old Democratic incumbent, who appeared in Detroit this month, is isolating at his beach home in Delaware after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

US Representative Hillary Scholten, a Democrat representing Grand Rapids, is among the growing number of lawmakers calling on Biden to exit the race after a disastrous debate performance.