Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump dances after finishing his remarks at a campaign rally at Ed Fry Arena in Indiana, Pa., Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
“We’re putting America first,” Trump said. “This new American industrialism will create millions and millions of jobs.” The former president wants to personally recruit foreign companies and to send members of his administration to do the same. But he had a spotty record in the White House of attracting foreign investment. For example, TrumpAmong the incentives he has proposed is offering foreign companies access to federal land. The Bureau of Land Management has restrictions on foreign entities looking to lease lands.
Some Republicans have said they fear Georgia has gotten more politically competitive in the two months since Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection efforts. Harris gave a speech in Atlanta last Friday, calling Trump a threat to women’s freedoms and warning voters he would continue to limit access to abortion if elected president.
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones assailed Harris for calling Trump a threat to democracy. Jones served as a fake elector and falsely attested that Trump won the 2020 election he actually lost to Biden. A special prosecutor, however,