President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Arizona on Tuesday night, a return to the state where one year ago he gave a speech that in large part defined his candidacy. Then just a candidate, Trump gave a hardline speech in Phoenix on August 31 about immigration in which he said “countless innocent American lives have been stolen” by undocumented immigrants because politicians have failed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
But the Arizona where the president will speak Tuesday has a different political landscape than the state where he spoke in 2016, with both U.S. senators from Arizona having opposed the president on important issues in recent months, the open question of whether Trump will pardon a controversial local sheriff and the entire country watching closely to see what the president will say in the wake of a recent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump’s rally is expected to start at 7 p.m. local time. – READ MORE