Earlier, Trump’s running mate JD Vance spoke in North Carolina with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a town hall targeting Gen-Z voters.
The Trump-Vance campaign has really amplified their efforts to appeal to younger voters – particularly young males – this election cycle, to tip the scales in their favour in what is predicted to be an incredibly tight race.
Vance talked about immigration under the Biden-Harris administration and then blends the discussion with the economy. He says homes are unaffordable, blaming it on the current administration’s regulatory policies which he says is slowing development and supply.
“If Donald Trump is president, we will build far more homes than we could if Kamala Harris were president,” he says.
He adds “it’s important to recognise that no matter how many homes you build, if you allow an unlimited wave of illegal immigrants… those people are going to end up owning the houses.”
In the sea of Harris supporters here, Priscilla Velazquez can be probably be spotted a mile away.
She’s donning a large satin Puerto Rico flag.
“You’ve got to represent,” she tells me.
The 20-year Navy veteran says she’s “mad as hell” over the remarks at a recent Trump rally where a comedian called the US territory a “floating island of garbage”.
“It’s a political rally, not a comedy show. How dare you say that,” she says.
You join me at the latest stop on Newsbeat’s swing states tour, travelling through some of the US states that could decide the election winner. Today, it’s the turn of North Carolina.
Waiting in line to see Country singer Jelly Roll, I meet Rusty and Britney – a brother and sister who tell me they’re “completely different” when it comes to their politics.
Britney? She’s “Kamala all the way,” she says. Her brother meanwhile says he’s “Republican – hardcore”.
Britney’s focused on women’s rights, a key battleground in this election.
“I think a woman has a right to choose what she does with her body,” she says. “10,000 %.”
North Carolina changed its laws on abortion after the national right to have one was scrapped in 2022.
Speaking to other voters here, many aren’t sure where they stand on the abortion issue – a lot aren’t even comfortable to talk to me about it.
For Rusty, it’s one policy area where, despite their differences, he’s more aligned with his sister.
“I am Republican but there are some things with both sides I do agree with,” he says.
Former First Lady and presidential nominee in the 2016 election Hillary Clinton will be knocking on doors with canvassers in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, the Harris-Walz campaign has confirmed.
The appearance will be her first on the campaign trail in support of Harris this election.
Lately, Florida has been a Republican stronghold. But Hillary Clinton barely lost the state to Trump by 1.2% in 2016.
Trump nearly doubled that lead in 2020 when he beat Joe Biden in the state by just over three percentage points.
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