Donald Trump and JD Vance are coming to Atlanta for a meeting on Saturday

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, will hold a rally in Atlanta on Saturday, just days after presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was scheduled to hold a rally of her own.

The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at the Georgia State University Convocation Center in downtown.

Harris will be in Atlanta today for her sixth trip to Georgia this year, but her first as a presumptive nominee.

Multiple polls came out last week, all showing a potential Harris-Trump race as a virtual toss-up. An NPR/PBS News Marist Poll conducted on July 22, 2024, shows Trump leading Harris 46% to 45%, with 9% of voters undecided. The one-day Marist poll of 1,309 adults was conducted on July 22, 2024.

Harris has a two percentage point lead over Trump, according to a Reuters poll, as she continues to consolidate support for the Democratic Party after Biden’s shock announcement that he is ending his re-election bid in 2024.

These polls were released after Monday’s nationwide poll by Quinnipiac University, which also indicated that the potential matchup (Harris has not yet been officially chosen as the Democratic Party’s nominee for the White House) was a close race.

The Quinnipiac poll, conducted Friday, July 19-21, found Trump with 49% of the vote and Harris with 47%.

Biden’s withdrawal quickly became the most talked about political topic in the country, surpassing at the time the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the fact that the GOP was fully united after the Republican Party convention.

The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to take place in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. Harris appears to have secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Now all eyes are on who she will choose as her running mate for vice president.

Had Biden faced Trump, it would have marked the first time two presidential candidates faced off in back-to-back elections since 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a rerun of the 1952 election.

President Joe Biden is now the first sitting president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to end his re-election bid.

Biden is the first sitting president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to end his re-election bid. He is also the first presidential candidate in modern political history to withdraw from the race after winning nearly all of his party’s delegates.

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Also, for the first time since 1976, a presidential ballot will not include names like “Biden,” “Bush” or “Clinton”:

Bush: George HW was Ronald Reagan’s running mate for vice president in 1980 and 1984; he ran for president in 1988 and was re-elected in 1992, but was defeated by …
William Jefferson Clinton – Clinton won the presidency in 1992 and was re-elected in 1996. His wife, Hillary Clinton, was the Democratic nominee for the White House in 2016, when she was defeated by Trump.
Joe Biden – Barack Obama’s running mate for vice president in 2008 and 2012. He ran for president in 2020 and won.

Trump’s choice of Senator JD Vance of Ohio marks the first time a so-called millennial has made the presidential ballot.

If Trump wins in November, he will become the second former president (the first was Grover Cleveland in the 19th century) to be elected to the White House after losing his re-election battle.

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