The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will display billboards ahead of former President Trump’s visit to North Carolina, hitting him on Social Security.
The committee launched a bilingual billboard campaign in Asheville for Trump’s rally on Wednesday, it first told The Hill.
The former president’s rally is on the anniversary of the signing of the 1935 Social Security Act and the billboards call him out for his plan to “slash funding, leave seniors behind, and cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy.” There will be six billboards in both English and Spanish around the area.
“Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are the only candidates in this race that are running to make Trump’s billionaire friends pay their fair share and ensure that the most vulnerable North Carolinians, including seniors, receive the benefits they deserve,” DNC spokesperson Stephanie Justice said in a statement to The Hill.
Days after Trump’s rally, Harris heads to Raleigh on Friday for her eighth visit to the state this year. Her campaign is eying North Carolina as a potential flip from red to blue after Trump won the state in 2020.
President Biden’s reelection campaign had previously hit Trump over suggesting that he’s open to cuts to Medicare and Social Security and pushed that Democrats are committed to protecting such services.
The campaign, before Biden dropped out of the race, made an effort to highlight comments that Trump made to CNBC in March on entitlements.
“First of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in term of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements,” Trump said at the time. “Tremendous bad management of entitlements. There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”
