HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Chesapeake on Friday, June 28 after the first presidential debate, according to a press release from his campaign.
Trump's release said the event will be held at the Historic Greenbrier Farms at 3 p.m., with doors opening at 11 a.m.
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"Joe Biden’s America is expensive," the release reads. "Bidenflation has spiked the cost of goods by more than 20% under Biden, costing Virginia households more than $27,000."
The Trump campaign release goes on to say that life is more expensive in Virginia because of Biden, alleging that "Biden’s pro-criminal and open border policies have caused a 22.8% increase in fentanyl overdoses from 2020-2021 and another 1,951 Virginians killed by fentanyl poisoning in 2022.
"Virginia, a place that President Trump loves, has been decimated by weak Joe Biden."
CBS reports that the Democratic National Committee has expressed doubt regarding any GOP optimism towards Virginia.
"Trump lost Virginia by double digits in 2020, and Glenn Youngkin lost the Virginia legislative elections last year, despite his high-profile attempt to hold the Virginia House and flip the Virginia Senate," DNC spokesperson Abhi Rahman said to CBS. "Virginians have rejected MAGA Trump Republicans time and time again, from 2016 onwards, and will do so again in November."
Democratic Party of Virginia Chairwoman Susan Swecker shared this statement with News 3 after the former president's trip to the commonwealth was reported:
“Virginians see Trump for what he is: a convicted felon who’s on an increasingly unhinged and dangerous quest for power, fuels political violence, and said the extremists who marched on Charlottesville were ‘very fine people.” It’s fitting that a loser like Trump would choose to head to a state that’s rejected him twice, where he and his agenda of banning abortion are so toxic that local Republicans have been forced to avoid campaigning with him over the past few years, and that is poised to reject him again in November. Every minute Donald Trump spends in Virginia will help remind voters here exactly why we rejected him the last two times and why we need to re-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Governor Glenn Youngkin will also be in attendance Friday.
