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Republican nominee, under pressure over ‘exhaustion’ claims, says ‘if we win Michigan, we win the whole ballgame’

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While Trump waits for the technical difficulties to be fixed, Kamala Harris is taking the stage at her dueling rally in Oakland County, Michigan.

Donald Trump is indeed on stage at the rally but there are technical difficulties with the microphone it turns out. He began speaking but the sound cut out and he’s now standing around as the crowd cheers for him.

Trump takes stage in Detroit, days after criticizing the city
Trump takes the stage in Michigan with his usual self-confidence, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd who are waving “Make Detroit Great Again” signs. “We win Michigan, we win the whole ballgame,” he said, as he’s promised every other city he’s visited lately.

However on his previous visit to the city, he bashed it as a “mess” and a “developing nation”. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” Trump said, referring to Kamala Harris.

Trump surrogates who have spoken before Donald Trump takes the stage have all hit on talking points we’ve heard repeatedly throughout his campaign. In addition to getting back jobs for American workers, including auto workers, and rising costs of living, nearly everyone who has taken the stage has decried what they describe as mass illegal immigration. They also made promises to Detroit residents specifically.

“Detroit once was the city that powered the entire world, every car worth driving in the entire world was manufactured here,” said former Trump adviser Stephen Miller. “Not in Mexico, not in China, not in Japan. Donald Trump has a plan to make Detroit and to make Michigan the economic center of the world.”

However, just last week, Trump criticized the city during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.

“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit,” the Republican presidential nominee said. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”

At the time, Detroit’s Democratic mayor Mike Duggan responded and cited the city’s recent drop in crime.

“Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help,” Duggan said.

While Donald Trump spent the last few minutes of his round table in Michigan talking about returning jobs to American auto workers, Kamala Harris is reminding auto workers what he’s previously said about their work.

According to Politico, at a campaign event at the United Auto Workers Local 652 in Lansing, Harris played the room full of auto workers remarks Trump made earlier this week at the Economic Club of Chicago. In addition to saying a child could do their jobs, Trump said car manufacturers “don’t build cars” and just “take them out of a box, and they assemble them”.

Both candidates are fighting to win over auto workers as well as working class voters in Michigan.

The round table has concluded. He ended the event by talking about tariffs in response to a United Auto Workers member. He said he plans to use tariffs to discourage people from building plants in other countries and taking jobs from American workers.

Donald Trump will be speaking at a rally in Detroit at 7pm. Stay tuned for more updates

Donald Trump is hearing from audience members in Michigan. Among them have been a Teamster representative as well as a holistic wellness practitioner and the president of the Police Officers Association of Michigan.

Jim Tignanelli, the group’s president, described what he says is the loss of honor for police. He said three officers were shot in Michigan over the last 90 days.

In response, Trump said he wants to call for the death penalty for anyone killing a police officer. Trump also called for qualified immunity for police. “One thing we’re going to be doing is … immunity for some of these police,” Trump said.

If police officers are doing their job … if they make a mistake, and that happens … we have to help people out now. We’re going to do the immunity thing. We have to stop being politically correct. You’re always going to have some bad apples but very few of them,” Trump said