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Becky Feldmann of Greensboro gives the peace sign as she has her photo made with a Trump impersonator while waiting in line for the Trump rally at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro on Saturday. Feldmann was attending the Greensboro rally in the Special Events Center. GREENSBORO — He's back again.
Just 11 days after holding a rally in Greensboro, former president and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is back in town to hold one of his final rallies of the election cycle in the First Horizon Coliseum this evening. North Carolina has become a key battleground heading into this year's general election and Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris is also in the state today holding an event in Charlotte. Additionally, the vice presidential nominees for both parties were recently in the Triad with Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, making a stop in Greensboro last Wednesday and Trump's running mate, JD Vance, holding a town hall at High Point University this past Thursday.
People wait in line to attend the Trump rally at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro on Saturday. Despite tight polling and things heating up in the state, Nick Adkins, who came to the rally from Maiden, was confident that Trump would win the Tar Heel state. People are also reading.
.. "I'd say by a margin of four to six points, Trump does," Adkins said.
Adkins was not alone in his sentiment and Chase Rhodes who came to the rally from Kernersville also believed Trump would win North Carolina easily. "My personal opinion is that this is him trying to help Mark Robinson," Rhodes said. "I don't think North Carolina will be as close as it was the past two elections.
I think he'll win this state easily, but I think this is him trying to help other Republicans." Rhodes also said he thought the general election would be closer, but still had Trump winning. Some among the sea of MAGA hats and American flags were so confident Trump would win both North Carolina and the general election they said they wouldn't accept the results if Harris was declared the winner.
One such person was Sherri Jarvis who came to the rally from Clemmons. She said in her opinion there was no way Harris could win the general election without cheating. "They cheated last time; they're trying to cheat again already," Jarvis said.
Judith Sizemore, who came to rally with Jarvis agreed that she wouldn't accept the results if Harris won and said she'd continue to support Trump if that were to happen. "I would support him and whatever he needed us to do," Sizemore said. A few in the crowd were not as confident about Trump's chances, however.
Dawn Hermanowski who came to the rally from Brown Summit said she believed Trump would win North Carolina, but that it would be close. George Frank sells MAGA hats to people waiting in line for the Trump rally at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro on Saturday. "It's going to be tight, and I hate to say it," Hermanowski said.
"I'm praying to God he will." Tia Hastings who came to the rally from Sumter, South Carolina predicted that Trump would win a close general election, but said she would accept the results if Harris won. "I would accept," Hastings said.
"I wouldn't be happy." With this being one of Trump's last events of the election cycle many in attendance were also excited to hear what Trump would say just days before the election. "I hope he says he's going to close the border," said Charlene Johnson who came to the rally from Kernersville.
"I want to hear more about the economy," Jim Carver who came to the rally from Raleigh said. "I want to hear what we're going to do about the drill baby drill, you know, we want to hear how he's going to build the economy." The event preprogram begins at 6 p.
m. tonight with Trump set to take the stage at 7:30 p.m.
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