Trump can’t stop attacking Detroit while campaigning in Michigan

donald trump held a demonstration in Novi, Michigan in Oakland County on Saturday at the Suburban Collection Showplace, with 10 days left until Election Day and early in-person voting opening statewide. His Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is also in Michigan today, visiting Kalamazoo with Michelle Obama for a pro-vote rally.

In the final days before the presidential election, the Republican presidential candidate told the detroit suburb that he would “Detroit is great again, finally after 45 years”. He said he recently “received a lot of criticism” because of his speech at the Detroit Economic Club, where despised the city earlier this month (Detroit-born Lizzo applauded her comments, and the singer who was supporting Harris said that if Harris wins, the country will be “tough like detroit.”)

On Saturday, he chose to double down on his degrading view of Detroit, attacking the American city once again.

“They want me to say, ‘Oh, Detroit is cool or something,’” he lamented. “He needs help.” He added: “And people said, ‘Oh, it wasn’t positive.’ “I can’t be positive,” he said of Michigan’s largest city, even though Detroit’s economic outlook has improved in recent years and is expected to increase in the near future, although there are challenges with the large number of low-income households. income, such as University of Michigan Economic Outlook suggests the city of Detroit.

Trump went on to say that “Detroit and some of our areas make us a developing nation.” he said of the United States, with the highest total GDP and one of the 10 richest countries in the world. He stated that “China has no such place,” implying that China does not have poor areas like Detroit or other unidentified areas he referred to, which is simply false.

Trump also highlighted that the United Auto Workers (UAW) rank and file had his back as he headed to the Motor City suburb and criticized UAW President Shawn Fain in the process, calling him a stupid person. He UAW has officially endorsed Kamala Harrisalthough some of its base members support it.

During his speech, he also talked about returning auto manufacturing jobs to Detroit through plants if he won, but then he also hedged by saying those plants may or may not be located in Detroit. The response to this part of his speech was, as expected, mediocre.

In 2020, Trump lost oakland county to President Joe Biden 42 percent to 56 percent and Biden also carried the state. Trump also lost the county in 2016 to Hillary Clinton 43 percent to 51 percent, but won the state by 10,704 votes. About 1.4 million absentee ballots have already been returned in Michigan, representing about 25 percent of the total votes in the 2020 presidential race, as The Detroit News information.

As with national polls, the two candidates are running neck and neck in the swing state of Michigan. In Project 538 and ABC News According to the latest poll averages, Harris was at 47.6 percent and Trump was at 47.2 percent as of Saturday morning. He end The New York Times/Siena Survey released Friday, shows Harris and Trump deadlocked at 48 percent each of the popular vote.