President Trump Rallies in Highland Heights, Kentucky
President Donald J. Trump's full speech at a campaign rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky, on October 17, 2026.
Seventeen days before the midterm elections, he urged Kentuckians to elect Congressman Andy Barr to the U.S. Senate over Democrat Charles Booker and to send Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to Congress from Kentucky's 4th District, inviting both men on stage to speak. He also backed Michael Whatley for Senate in North Carolina and Jon Husted in Ohio.
He pointed to record incomes and employment, stock market highs, Ford's $2 billion Louisville Assembly Plant and a $1 billion GE Appliances…
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