Overview
- Speaking at Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome on Feb. 19, the president promoted his plans to lower costs, touted tariffs, tax cuts and job growth, and claimed he had “solved” affordability.
- He formally endorsed district attorney Clayton Fuller to succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging Republicans to rally in a race so fragmented that the March 10 vote could trigger an April 7 runoff.
- Early voting is underway across Georgia’s 14th District, where a large field is led on the Democratic side by Shawn Harris in a contest drawing national attention.
- Trump again alleged Georgia’s 2020 election was stolen, citing the recent federal seizure of Fulton County ballots, even as audits, courts and state officials have rejected claims of widespread fraud.
- Before the trip he floated deploying the National Guard to Atlanta, and the Rome event drew long lines of supporters and a smaller protest group, with no Guard action announced.