The last time Vice President Kamala Harris came to Greensboro she spoke at Dudley High School and she did so on behalf of then Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. However, on Sunday, July 21, Biden dropped out of the race, and, by the next day, it was clear Harris would be the new contender.
Now Harris is returning to Greensboro – and other parts of North Carolina – on Thursday, Sept. 12, in an effort to tip the scales to her side in what is now a battleground state.
The rally will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum. A source working on the logistics of the rally said the campaign had been looking for a venue that could hold 20,000 people.
The rally time has been listed by the campaign in the window of 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The visit will take place two days after the momentous Tuesday, Sept. 10 debate with former President Donald Trump, who’s seeking to get that job for a second term.
Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, will be with her as they swing through several battleground states. The tour comes after Harris has taken some time off the campaign trail to prepare for the debate.
The last time Harris came to Greensboro was on Thursday, July 11, when she spent time with Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston, NC Governor Roy Cooper (who was considered as a potential running mate for Harris), Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan and other elected officials before giving a speech at Dudley High School.
At that time, Harris was the vice president speaking in support of Joe Biden, who was well behind Trump in the polls in North Carolina.
During that speech, she also, of course, praised Biden and blasted Trump.
Her message then consisted largely of the dangers of reelecting Trump, however, since becoming the presidential candidate herself, she has been attempting to project a more forward-looking and positive message of joy and hope.
“So,” the vice president said on her last trip to Greensboro, “all of this is to say there is so much at stake in this and, last week, we were again reminded of that fact when the Supreme Court basically told this individual who has been convicted of fraud, that, going forward, he will be immune for activity we know he is prepared to engage in if he gets back into the White House.”
“This is not 2016,” Harris said at that Dudley speech. “This is not 2020. Understand the significance of what the Supreme Court does, and consider that in the context of the fact that Donald Trump has openly vowed that, if re-elected, he will be a dictator on day one and that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies and round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country.”
Harris said someone like Trump should never have the chance to stand behind a microphone and the seal of the president of the United States of America.
In late August of this year, polling averages on the well-respected political polling site FiveThirtyEight had Harris with a very small lead in North Carolina, however, as of Sunday, Sept 8. Trump was ahead by a 0.06 percentage of a point.
Alston and Harris have been friends ever since she visited Greensboro in 2021 and he convinced her to alter her plans that day to visit the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in downtown Greensboro, a museum that Alston co-founded.
There is some speculation that, if Harris wins, Alston might find himself in a federal government position rather than in his usual seat of the chairman of the Board of Commissioners.
Which accent will she show up with???
The smart one versus rambling and weaving DonOLD Trump.
I was right. LMAO
Hey Chris if it looks like a turd smells like a turd then it’s a turd no matter how much you wipe it
In DonOLD’s case he just changes his diaper.
It helps if the moderators pick a side, am I right?
Agree, they really now need a Foxnews debate that favors Trump to be fair. Bet his is too chicken after she so easily got him off balance the other night. But agree the moderators were one sided.
Keep repeating those gop talking points. Maybe someone will think something so trivial is more important than electing a felon and sex abuser.
If that’s what it takes to get rid of Skippy I’d rather keep him!
Regardless of the election, Skippy needs to go through term limits.
Wonder how many they will need to bus in? Seriously, if you look at her proposed policies and flip flops, this woman will bring on a disaster for the country. If you can’t vote for Trump, please stay home or vote for Jill Stein.
They will bus in as many as Skip can find. The same way he has GCS bus in kids to the downtown money pit at TAXPAYERS expense. He is such a race baiting hustler. I hop one day he, Micheal King and Anthony Spearman all have a reunion. KARMA skip. KARMA
I have no respect for people who vote for any Democrat-on-a-stick. Unfortunately, I have friends on both sides of the isle. I like my friends, so I keep my politics to myself – even if they ask.
For weeks, I have been getting political texts. Today, I get one addressing me by my name. I have an unlisted number, so where did they get this info? The number texting me is 980 412 7481. Listed as spam from the DNC, who ignores the do-not-call list (do not go on this list, it gives spammers your number), who call/text you from disconnected numbers).
LMAO….Alston would fit in perfect in the DC zoo. I’m sure he would qualify for any job under the standards of DEI.
When Joe Biden visited Greensboro for a campaign rally in the parking lot of the Greensboro Coliseum Guilford County Schools donated your tax money to pay for 80 Guilford County School Buses that were driven there to provide protective barrier around the rally. Thank you Skip Alston for wasting even more of our tax money! You are a world champion at that1 Wonder if Mayor Vaughan and Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson are donating more of your tax money with a free facility and police protection for this event? Of course? That’s the best way to get a high political position in a new administration? [You think you might be getting fleeced in Greensboro these days, elect Kamala and kiss this once fine Nation good-bye!
What a disgrace to the nation & to Greensboro. Here’s an opportunity for a good story Scott! Please tell us how much it costs the taxpayers for her to visit. All the resources & overtime for federal, state & local law enforcement, fire, EMS, Emergency Management, hospital staff on standby, all the meals for those folks, travel expenses & anything else that the campaign isn’t paying for. I wouldn’t go to hear her if the speech was on my neighbors porch, much less at the coliseum. I wonder if she knows how great a neighborhood it’s in? Security will cost extra no doubt as both candidates campaigns will demand it, as will the feds at this point. No one wants to see any kind of an incident that would endanger their asset (or a$$es depending on how you look at it) or the public. That requires many more resources than previously planned I’m sure.
JS
And then please tell us how much it will cost taxpayers to reprint the ballots since the NC Supreme Court determined that we must take Bobby Kennedy off the ballot.
Look at the damage the democrats have done in just 3.6 years. If by doing some more 2020 magic, they are able to put Harris in the WH, this country is doomed and will never recover. Unfortunately, there are too many fools who think she’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. I keep hoping to wake up from this nightmare!
Yeah, they beat inflation caused by overspending by Trump and the covid crisis without a recession! Do destructive. LOL
We are lucky to have recovered from Trump’s first term. Let’s not give him a second.
If she draws 20,000 people then something is wrong. When Obama came here during Clinton’s run for President, they had his event at the outdoor place and I know he didn’t draw 6000 people. I was watching people come in and it was like at a wake, They came thru the gates, walked thru the area , saw Obama giving his speech and then left without staying any length of time. Was very unusual . So we will see.
AMEN! And her TV commercials blasting Trump are mostly a pack of lies. Dems can’t seem to add 2 & 2 and get a logical answer. When Trump put his tax cuts into effect, reducing taxes on big business was for the purpose of bringing them back from overseas and giving them the capital to expand, creating more jobs for Americans. Also that added more ” Made in America” products to our market.
Then came Covid, which disrupted everything.
But I digress. The point is that the Democrats twist everything and most of their claims are outright lies !
TV ads from VP Harris, so far, are full of lies; and out of context. She say Pres. Trump will raise taxes. Well, he says he will – on imports (tariffs). The implication is that Trump will raise income & corporate taxes, which is not so.
If Pres. Trump wants to win the election, he needs to pound the issues, not VP Harris.
20,000? That’s a joke! They can’t even get 2,000 to her rallys. We all know they rounded up all the homeless in Atlanta and paid them to go so it would look like thousands loved her. She’s a joke. The demonrats don’t even like the air headed cow.. I can just about guarantee not over 3,000 tops show up to hear her. I’m guessing Skippy boy will pay our tax money to everyone he knows to get them to go. We certainly don’t need that clown in any federal position! This country and NC both have become a joke because of our leaders! They need to go!
Just say you don’t like her and stop with the BS you know isn’t true. You are so weird.
Well if you want death row inmates to have the right to vote, you are for the radical Green New Deal, you are in favor of eliminating private health care, you want to defund the police, you want to set up a bail bond system for violent protesters who are arrested, you are in favor of abolishing ICE, you are in favor of reparations for slavery, you don’t think illegal immigrants should be charged with a crime then CAM-Alla, who never went to the border is your candidate of choice. Oh, did I mention higher taxes? And the list goes on.
In a city which boasts a split of 70% Democrat, 30% Republican, I have seen far more Trump signs than Harris. She should take the hint and take her rally to Durham or Charlotte. Will she use our fair city to expound another change in her policies? Take Bernie Sanders at his work–her positions have not changed-she is only doing what she needs to get elected. We as citizens will do what we need to do to make sure she doesn`t. Our rally cry will be remember Springfield, OH, and a city overrun with Haitian Illegals–with her blessings.
A sign doesn’t elect anyone. All it does is to alienate some of your neighbors – you might need them sometime.
I bet Vice President Harris will bring up the facts about trump being a rapist, fraudster, deflationist, 34-felon, and insurrectionist. That while he was in office he failed to get the Wall built, didn’t get Mexico to pay for it, didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare, didn’t get the Iran deal redone, and Didn’t lock Hillary up. That trump shut down the government not once but twice, once for the first time in history and that it happen while one party controlled the entire government. That trump had to bailout the Farmers not once but twice because of his tariffs that he his promising again. That trump crashed a good economy and got a million Americans killed because because of his incompetent handling of Covid. That trump surrender Afghanistan after releasing 5,000 Taliban and would not allow incoming President Biden to receive intelligence briefings on the situation, That he called our KIAs suckers and losers, insulted our Gold Star Families, and said our POWs were not hero’s. So the country FIRED HIM!!!….Should be a good rally.
Best summary of why to NOT vote Trump posted here. We need to post it under every silly pro Trump comment to remind people of the Truth that Trump will never admit to….well done.
Excellent post, Dwayne! Thank you for reminding the MAGA folks who exactly they are supporting.
“Do not come. Do not come.” – Kamala Hariss.
Please, take your own advice!
Go hide in your bus with your speech writers, propaganda coaches, and the brainwashed interns that write your ads.
dwayne thompson, please stop spewing comments without context. It shows your partisan ignorance and your rabid disdain for our next President of the United States, Donald Trump.
When you refer to our military as losers, sucks from a draft dodger, I have NO respect for this individual! Sure he did some good, but he is all about himself, damn anyone else. (My opinion)
Trump would have a better chance to win if he would and other republicans and democrats state lies instead of facts. Anyone else tired of lying politicians? Both federal, state and local??
Friend of the family was a POW from 1966-1973 in Vietnam after being shot down.
I remember the horror stories he told.
I have been in Iraq, Kuwait and other middle eastern countries. I was on the Bagram Air base 1 week before the withdrawal.
In MY opinion pulling out of Afghanistan that quickly was a major mistake. I not only blame Biden for this cluster **** but also Trump for NOT shared intelligence before he was voted out of office. I do not like either candidate but can vote against the least favorite.
Hopefully next election 2028 we the people will have worthy candidates. These are my opinions. No lies, just facts.
Thank you, Glenn. My thoughts. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a horrific mess. I have become disgusted with having to vote for the lesser of the evils, but voting is my duty. Our internal war to save this country and our Constitution is long and difficult. We owe that to each one of you who has served.
We have been wishing for better candidates since 2016. We need ranked choice voting during primaries so we stop with the common denominator candidates that make no one happy.
The buck stops with Biden for the servicemembers’ deaths. I do not believe those deaths would have occurred under Trump’s watch. Biden and his administration, including Kamala Harris, are bumbling idiots. If Trump did not share intelligence, please enlighten me to what that was and, if so, why. That charge sounds like it is straight from the democrats to coverup their ineptitude.
Democrats favor Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) because they believe it gives their candidates a better chance, which is not necessarily true. RCV is stunning in its complexity, depending on method used. A legitimate selection among candidates requires an informed electorate, far more than the current system. If there are four or five candidates to rank, how will the voter know the positions of all candidates without a lot of effort to learn the candidates’ positions on issues and then make an informed choice? RCV may work well in small areas with educated and informed voters, but not so well in large areas with uneducated and uninformed voters. Machines would be required to count the votes because the calculation would be cumbersome and time-consuming to count manually. And, what about write-in candidates? I believe RCV will negatively affect turnout. Regardless of voting method, term limits are needed to protect the Republic from career politicians. Career politicians are a threat to the Republic as witnessed by our debt that we will never be able to repay based on current status.