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As a follow-up to his appearances in Asheville and Greenville on Monday, former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Greensboro on Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, as has been its practice at numerous Trump events in recent months, the Harris-Walz campaign will make sure residents of the Gate City are made aware during the rally of one of its chief critiques of the former president.
On Tuesday it will arrange for an aircraft to fly a banner near the event with the message: “Project 2025 = Unchecked Power for Trump.”
The reference, of course, is to the 900+ page policy blueprint published by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation (and prepared with the assistance of many former Trump staffers) that its authors hope will serve as a lengthy “to do” list for a new Republican presidential administration.
While Trump has claimed that he has no knowledge of Project 2025, both Vice President Kamala Harris on Gov. Tim Walz have repeatedly tied he and his running mate JD Vance to it and expressed deep concerns about what it could mean if Trump regains the White House. Those were concerns repeated in the following release that announced this afternoon’s planned flight:
As Trump becomes increasingly unstable and unhinged, his Project 2025 agenda would be his blueprint for weaponizing the government against his political opponents. And since his handpicked justices on the Supreme Court granted him broad immunity for his actions as President, a second term Donald Trump would have no guardrails and virtually unchecked power to implement his dangerous extremist Project 2025 agenda. Trump has already said that he would be a “dictator” on day one, and his Project 2025 agenda will enable him to do that.
This agenda creates a blueprint for Trump to use the power of the Presidency to obtain unprecedented and unchecked power and implement some of his most dangerous ideas, like jailing his political opponents, or using the United States military to attack “the enemy within.”
Interestingly, WFMY reported Monday afternoon that the Trump rally could pose some unusual logistical challenges as it will take place at the same location — the Greensboro Complex Special Events Center — that will also be hosting an early voting site at the same time.
According to the report, the Guilford County Board of Elections issued the following statement indicating the rally can proceed because it will be sufficiently distant from the early voting site:
Within the Special Events Center, the voting and the campaign event will be in separate wings, and voters cannot cross into the event side. There will still be a 50-foot buffer zone maintained from the entrance to the building in which no electioneering may occur.
Voters must enter the Greensboro Coliseum Complex using the Patterson Street entrance off Gate City Boulevard. Campaign event attendees must enter via the Coliseum Boulevard entrances.