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Story · July 27, 2024

Trump Heads to Minnesota as Democrats Coalesce Around Harris

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trump’s Minnesota Reset Runs Into the Harris Wall

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Correction: Correction: On July 27, 2024, Kamala Harris was the presumptive Democratic nominee, not yet the party’s official nominee.

Donald Trump held a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday, July 27, 2024, six days after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid. The campaign had already changed shape by then: Democrats were moving fast to consolidate around Vice President Kamala Harris as Biden’s endorsed successor. ([event.donaldjtrump.com](https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-and-vice-presidential-nominee-senator-jd-vance-to-hold-a-rally-in-st-cloud-minnesota))

The event was billed as a rally with Trump and Vice President-turned-running mate JD Vance, and it gave Trump a chance to keep pressing the same themes he had been using for months — immigration, border security and attacks on Democrats as weak and disconnected. But the political target was no longer the same one. With Biden out, Trump’s team had to rework its argument for a race that suddenly revolved around Harris instead of the president who had been at the center of it. ([event.donaldjtrump.com](https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-and-vice-presidential-nominee-senator-jd-vance-to-hold-a-rally-in-st-cloud-minnesota))

The timing made that pivot plain. Biden dropped out on July 21 and endorsed Harris, calling on Democrats to unite behind her. AP reported that Trump was expected to turn his full focus to Harris at his first rally since Biden’s exit, while also noting that the party still had to sort out the formal nomination process. Harris was emerging as the clear successor, but on July 27 she was still the presumptive standard-bearer, not the nominee. ([ap.org](https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/biden-drops-out-of-2024-race-after-disastrous-debate-inflamed-age-concerns-vp-harris-gets-his-nod/))

That left Trump in a familiar position with a less familiar opponent. The crowd in St. Cloud got the usual rally treatment. The race around it had already moved on. ([event.donaldjtrump.com](https://event.donaldjtrump.com/events/president-donald-j-trump-and-vice-presidential-nominee-senator-jd-vance-to-hold-a-rally-in-st-cloud-minnesota))

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