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Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of business fraud as part of a plan to cover up hush money paid to a porn star in 2016 – Copyright AFP\/File Sergei GAPON<\/small><\/em><\/p>\nDonald Trump on Saturday will hold his first campaign rally since his criminal trial in New York began, with the North Carolina crowd likely to hear the ex-president reiterate fiery outrage at the unprecedented legal proceedings.<\/p>\n
The Republican billionaire is set to address supporters in the coastal city of Wilmington, seeking to stymie Democratic hopes of flipping the battleground state after his victories there in 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n
However, going to North Carolina won\u2019t be the only thing on Trump\u2019s mind, as opening statements in his hush money trial are expected to begin less than 48 hours later in New York following the finalization of jury selection on Friday.<\/p>\n
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of business fraud as part of a plan to cover up payments to a porn star so that the story of an alleged sexual encounter would not come out just before the 2016 presidential election, in which he beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
Denouncing an alleged political \u201cwitch hunt,\u201d Trump has repeatedly complained the trial \u2014 the first of a former US president \u2014 has impeded his ability to campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m supposed to be in a lot of different places campaigning\u2026 And I\u2019m sitting here for days now, from morning \u2019til night in that freezing room,\u201d he said Thursday of the Manhattan courtroom.<\/p>\n
Trump has nonetheless continued to get his messages out to the public, both on social media and in daily remarks to the hordes of press covering his New York trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cTHIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN THE UNITED STATES,\u201d he claimed Friday on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n
While his address in North Carolina is likely to follow a similar critical line, Trump has been ordered by Judge Juan Marchan not to attack witnesses, prosecutors and relatives of court staff \u2014 a limitation the Republican has blasted as \u201cvery unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Battleground North Carolina \u2013<\/p>\n
Though the last Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina was Barack Obama, in 2008, the party thinks the state could be competitive in November.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden lost the state to Trump by only 75,000 votes in 2020, the same year North Carolina\u2019s Democratic governor won reelection.<\/p>\n
The party hopes it can capitalize on a growing urban population and anger over abortion restrictions put in place after the US Supreme Court revoked the nationwide right to the procedure.<\/p>\n
With Trump set to be on trial possibly for weeks in New York \u2014 and facing more pending charges in Washington, Georgia and Florida \u2014 Biden has begun ramping up his own campaign appearances.<\/p>\n
This week he made several trips to the critical swing state of Pennsylvania and even made his first remarks acknowledging Trump\u2019s legal woes \u2014 something he had long refrained from doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder my predecessor \u2014 who\u2019s busy right now \u2014 Pennsylvania lost 275,000 jobs,\u201d the 81-year-old Biden quipped at one event.<\/p>\n
The White House has stated that Biden is not following Trump\u2019s trial, adding his \u201cfocus is on the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s polling numbers, meanwhile, have steadily improved since his State of the Union address in March, with national averages placing him and 77-year-old Trump neck-and-neck.<\/p>\n
Vice President Kamala Harris has visited North Carolina four times already this year, once in March for a joint appearance with Biden.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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