Former President Trump brought two of his grandchildren, Luke and Carolina Trump, up to the podium at a Wilmington, North Carolina, rally on Saturday afternoon.

Does Donald Trump really want his running mate JD Vance to have the final debating word this fall? Or does Trump want that opportunity for himself?

Donald Trump returns Saturday for a campaign rally in North Carolina, where the former president is confronting a mess he played a key role in making in the critical battleground state.

The episode reflects the way Trump takes policy positions — and the support he’s finding from Big Tobacco as he campaigns for president again.

If Donald Trump wishes to win North Carolina, he’ll need to win voters like Mike Mowatt. In many ways, Mowatt is the prototype swing voter in this swing state: He’s retired, and North Carolina will have more 65-and-up voters this cycle than ever.

Whatever control and self-restraint helped launch Trump’s third presidential campaign has largely disappeared.

He has threatened to target his perceived enemies if elected again. A look at his time in the White House shows how readily he could do so.

The former president did not mention Mr. Robinson, the state’s embattled Republican nominee for governor, whom he once called “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

At a Trump rally in Wilmington, N.C., many said they would still vote for the embattled Republican nominee for governor.