On Friday, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be in Michigan looking for votes. They are both trying to secure support in this important election stronghold.
Harris, the vice president of the Democratic Party, is going to start her day with a gathering with other Democratic leaders in Grand Rapids.
Then she’s going to Lansing to talk at a United Auto Workers union hall about how the White House has helped American carmakers in the past.
At the end of the day, she will hold a gathering in Oakland County, which is northwest of Detroit.
In the afternoon, Trump, the Republican former president, has his own event in Oakland County. In the evening, he holds a gathering in Detroit.
One of the three “blue wall” states that will help decide the election is Michigan. The other two are Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump’s event in Detroit will be his first there since last week, when he said mean things about the city. He said, “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit” to show what would happen if Harris wins.
In the past few years, the city has been able to get back on its feet after years of losing residents and companies and getting into serious financial trouble.
Support from unions has been hard for Harris in Michigan. Even though they are usually Democratic, she hasn’t been able to get some important support.
Arab American voters have also been wary of Harris because the White House has always supported Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
In an interview Thursday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Harris’ campaign, said that everyone knew “it was going to be a close election.”
“Everyone says, ‘Oh, it’s so close.'” “Have you not been listening for decades?” He said Whitmer. “Michigan is a split state.” In light of this, we don’t ignore the most red parts of a political map. “We show up.”
Kent County, where Harris will start her day on Friday, has been mostly Republican for a long time. In 2016, Trump won the county by 3%. But Biden won the county in 2020, and it has been voting more and more Democratic lately.
