PolitiFact: Is Sears Wrong On First Republican Convention Claim?
FILE PHOTO: Winsome Sears, Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, is the first Black woman to be nominated by either party for statewide office in Virginia. (Image: Winsome Sears Campaign Video)
Winsome Sears, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, says she wants to convince African-Americans to return “to our roots” in the Republican Party.
“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church,” she said during a May 13 interview on Fox News. There was a picture of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, on the bookcase behind her.
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump is returning to North Carolina. Trump, who carried the state in both of his presidential campaigns, will speak at the North Carolina Republican Party’s 2021 state convention in Greenville. Trump will speak June 5 at 6 p.m. Trump, who lost the 2020 election, has not ruled out a third presidential bid in 2024. “President Trump won North Carolina in 2016 .
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Former President Donald Trump plans to resume his signature campaign-style rallies in a series of battleground states this summer as he inches closer to a decision on whether to mount a comeback presidential bid in 2024.
“We’ll be doing one in Florida, we’re going to do one in Ohio, we’re going to do one in North Carolina,” the 45th President told the right-wing media outfit One America News in an interview Thursday, adding that he would release a rally schedule “relatively soon.”
“We’ll be announcing them very soon over the next week or two,” Trump said.