OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
2:36 PM – Monday, October 14, 2024
Twenty-two days before Election Day, Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has sent former President Bill Clinton to strategic states.
On Sunday, the former president addressed members of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, as part of his campaigning efforts for Harris. Clinton will be the star of a bus trip in eastern North Carolina this week, the Harris campaign said on Thursday.
Following Hurricane Helene, Harris and former President Donald Trump both traveled to the Tar Heel state.
Clinton’s tour follows Harris’s rally at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, on Sunday.
“Uniting people and building, being repairers of the breach, as Isaiah says, those are the things that work,” Clinton said at Mount Zion Baptist Church on Sunday. “Blaming, dividing, demeaning—they get you a bunch of votes at election time, but they don’t work.”
“This whole election and the future of the country is turning out to be what people who were sort of on the fence about voting are going to do in the next three and a half weeks,” Clinton added, addressing the congregation. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.”
According to the Associated Press, a sizable crowd allegedly gave Clinton a standing ovation, despite the fact that the Black church was not very full, according to photographs taken of the event. While there were few younger churchgoers scattered among the pews, the majority of guests were much older.
Speaking in the Harris campaign’s Albany office, Clinton, the former governor of Arkansas before becoming president, claimed that he requested that the campaign send him to rural areas because that is where he “feels most comfortable.”
The Harris-Walz campaign is making an effort to win over rural voters, who have historically supported the Republican Party in presidential elections, with the 42nd president’s trip to the two battleground states.
Last week, Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa, U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, and a number of former Trump administration officials embarked on a three-day bus trip across North Carolina as part of Trump’s campaign as well.
Additionally, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Angel Ureña, posted a video on X showing the 42nd president approaching a McDonald’s counter while sporting a blue track jacket with the letters USA printed on the back.
The counter clerk instantly gives off a broad smile of vague familiarity, although it’s clear that she is still unsure of who exactly is in front of her.
She asks, “You Joe?” after a few seconds, referring to 81-year-old President Biden.
Although the audio is very low, 78-year-old Clinton responds, “I’m Bill.”
The McDonald’s employee appears to become much more thrilled at this point. She then yells out, “Bill!?” and rushes around the counter to give him a hug.
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