JD Vance speaking in Georgia hours before Kamala Harris’ DNC keynote

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Hours before Vice President Kamala Harris makes history Thursday night, Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance will speak in south Georgia on an issue he and Donald Trump are making a central part of their campaign to return the 45th president to the White House.

Vance will speak at the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office in Valdosta at 1 p.m. on border security and immigration.

“An average of 5,000 illegal immigrants are being released into the U.S. every day,” the Trump-Vance campaign said in the announcement. “In FY 2023 alone, more than 900,000 illegal immigrants were released into the interior of the U.S. and now await future immigration court dates. Experts say the likelihood U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will remove them is ‘virtually nonexistent’ and that they ‘are here indefinitely, if not forever.’”

Harris was given the issue of border security and immigration as her responsibility in President Joe Biden’s administration.

This is Vance’s second trip to the battleground state of Georgia since becoming the GOP’s vice presidential nominee. In early August, Trump and Vance made their first joint appearance in Atlanta at the Georgia State University convocation center, the same site where Harris held a rally only days earlier.

Before their Georgia appearance and fresh off last month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump and Vance had appeared at one rally together, in Michigan. That rally came exactly one week after Trump would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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