FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to make his fourth visit in as many weeks to the battleground state of North Carolina to address a rally of supporters in Fayetteville.
Trump was set to address a crowd Saturday evening at the Fayetteville Regional Airport. He’s made other recent visits to Winston-Salem and Wilmington, as well as to Charlotte, where last month he addressed the Republican delegates who awarded him the GOP nomination.
Trump’s latest visit comes following Friday’s death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president on Saturday urged the Republican-led Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the court’s new vacancy about six weeks before the election.
Democrats said Republicans shouldn’t consider a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to a presidential election, following how GOP senators refused in 2016 to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who is running for reelection, also plans to attend Saturday’s rally.