Donald Trump to hold campaign rally at Phoenix-area airport

PHOENIX — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally at a Phoenix-area airport next week.

Trump’s campaign website links to tickets for an event at International Air Response. The company’s address is listed at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Trump’s website says the tickets are for Wednesday, one day after the upcoming debate in Las Vegas.

The event is scheduled for noon. Doors open at 10 a.m.

Earlier this week, the city of Phoenix confirmed the mogul’s campaign was looking to book a venue in the area to hold a rally. Mayor Greg Stanton was highly critical of Trump.

“I hope that Donald Trump does not bring his hateful message of division and intolerance back to Phoenix,” the statement read. “He has a First Amendment right to spew vile rhetoric, but his brand of increasingly overt racism is in complete contrast to our values as a city.”

At his last campaign stop in Phoenix, Trump touched on a myriad of topics, including immigration,  the Islamic State and his relationship with Mexico natives, among other talking points. At the time, he was raising eyebrows over his comments concerning Mexican immigrants, whom Trump claimed entered the country illegally and are drug smugglers and rapists.

Since his July visit, however, Trump has garnered plenty more headlines with some contentious statements, the latest of which concerned a proposal to ban Muslim immigrants. It has been met with worldwide criticism.

“Somebody in this country has to say what’s right,” Trump said in an interview with ABC taped last week. “It’s short-term. Let our country get its act together.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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