Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will hold a rally in Asheville, North Carolina this evening, his second event of the day.
Trump’s speech will take place at the U.S. Cellular Center beginning at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It can be viewed in the embedded YouTube player via Right Side Broadcasting.
This rally occurs just a few hours after Trump spoke at the National Guard Association’s General Conference & Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland. During that address, Trump spoke at length about Hillary Clinton’s comments that about half of his supporters are deplorable, saying that Clinton should immediately apologize.
“If she wont retract her comments in full, I don’t see how she can credibly campaign any further,” Trump said.
Trump has yet to comment very much on Hillary Clinton’s recent medical issues, which is a bit surprising considering Trump has repeatedly said that Clinton does not have the strength or the stamina to be commander-in-chief. In a television interview on Monday morning, though, Trump briefly addressed the incident and said that he hopes Clinton gets better soon.
The Republican candidate has stopped by North Carolina many times over the past few weeks, as this is one of the key states in the 2016 election. The state went blue for Barack Obama in 2008, but it voted for the Republican candidate in 2000, 2004 and 2012. At the moment, Clinton is ahead in the state’s polls, but not by much, with Real Clear Politics’ polling average having Clinton at 44.3 percent and Trump at 43.5 percent.
FiveThirtyEight currently forecasts that Hillary Clinton has a 52.6 percent chance of winning North Carolina in November.