In Economy-Focused Speech, Trump Still Lobs Personal Attacks Against Harris
“Former President Donald J. Trump’s speech on Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., his first event in a battleground state in nearly two weeks, was supposed to offer him a bit of a reset after his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, gained significant momentum.
His top advisers have urged him to focus on policy issues, and he vowed to about 2,000 people in an Asheville auditorium that he would do just that, giving a speech that he said would focus squarely on the economy and inflation.
But in a speech lasting more than an hour, Mr. Trump often veered far from that aim.”
Harris faces N.C. voters skeptical of a promised tech boom
“A high-tech jobs boom is in the offing for places like this North Carolina town, the Biden administration announced last year with fanfare, thanks to a nationwide program to connect every household with high-speed internet.
Corning’s Midland factory, the nation’s largest producer of the fiber-optic cables that the internet largely runs on, stands to benefit. But the facility has yet to see a single dollar of the federal government’s $42 billion program — and that could pose a challenge for the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Residents of this town about 25 miles east of Charlotte say all the upcoming jobs in the world can’t help them right now as they suffer from inflation, which they blame on the Biden administration.”