Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday with vice presidential candidate U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).
Saturday RallyThe rally, which will take place at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids at 5:00 a.m. ET, will be Trump’s first rally since announcing Vance as his vice presidential candidate.
On Monday, Trump was officially nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention. Republican Party delegations from all 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia formally confirmed their nomination.
On Monday, during the Republican National Convention, Vance was officially nominated as Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
Real Clear Politics’ 2024 RCP Electoral College Map letters the state of Michigan, where victory in this year’s presidential election is uncertain.
In 2016, Trump won Michigan by 0.3% of the vote, but lost the state to incumbent President Joe Biden in 2020 by 2.8%.
“Michigan residents have suffered greatly under the failed policies of corrupt Joe Biden. With inflation in Michigan running at nearly 20%, families are paying $980 more per month for everyday goods. If Biden is re-elected, his proposed tax increases will cost the average Michigan taxpayer an additional $2,054 per year in taxes,” Trump’s campaign said.
The campaign went on to describe how “hardworking Michiganders are paying the ultimate price for Joe Biden’s woke policies.”
“Joe Biden’s open border and pro-crime policies are putting the great people of Michigan in danger as the fentanyl epidemic results in a staggering 31% increase in opioid overdose deaths…Joe Biden’s failed policies have left a path of death and destruction in Michigan. President Trump will ease the financial pressures on households and restore law and order to Michigan,” Trump’s campaign said.
“We can Make America Great Again by confronting lawlessness, stemming the endless flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border, and reversing the harmful effects of [of] “By restoring the wealth of the American people,” added a representative for the former president’s campaign.
Saturday will also be the first rally, marking exactly one week since Trump survived an assassination attempt on his life during an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump was hit by a single bullet to the upper right ear in what is officially considered a failed assassination attempt during the rally.
Minutes after Trump took the stage in Butler, at about 6:13 p.m. on July 13, the suspected shooter — later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania — fired multiple shots at the stage from an elevated position outside the venue.
Crooks was fatally shot by a Secret Service officer, who killed one spectator and wounded three others, including the former president.
The deceased bystander was identified as former Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Chief Corey Comperatore, who heroically spent his final moments throwing himself to the ground in front of his family to shield them from the gunfire.
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