Dueling Harris and Trump rallies in the same Atlanta arena showcase America’s deep divides
Associated PressATLANTA — Two rallies. “It’s OK to have different ideologies,” said Angela Engram, a 59-year-old Democrat who drove from Stockbridge, Georgia, to hear Harris on Tuesday. On inflation, she implicitly blamed corporate greed, promising to attack “price gouging” and “hidden fees.” Democrats promoted the biggest spending measures of Biden’s tenure as seminal investments in clean energy, domestic manufacturing such as the burgeoning electric battery plants in Georgia and infrastructure improvements that eluded previous presidents, Trump included. In an interview, Wilson added his own Trumpian hyperbole: “I mean, she’s a Marxist.” Michaelah Montgomery, a Black conservative activist, joined Trump’s recent mockery of Harris’ racial and ethnic identity. Healthier discourse under a Harris administration, she said, would depend “on the good Republicans who are not all MAGA.” Trump’s allies did not suggest they could aim for consensus.