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Trump visits Howell to deliver law and order address

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Rick Pluta

Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump made a campaign stop Tuesday in Livingston County to deliver an address on public safety, but also veered into jobs and the economy and predicted the demise of the domestic auto industry if he loses the November election.

The Republican nominee is making a tour of battleground states as a counterpoint to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week.

Trump was flanked by Republican county sheriffs as he attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, as soft on crime and illegal immigration and not supportive of police.

“Over the past four years, the Marxist left has waged a vicious war on law enforcement in our country,” he said. “They’ve taken away the dignity and the spirit and the life of some of these police officers and you can see why you see the crime is so out of control in our country.”

Data from the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics indicate that violent crime is trending down after spiking earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump also took aim at United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, who delivered a blistering censure of the former president at the Democratic National Convention, and Trump blasted the auto industry’s move toward electric vehicles and Harris’ support for the shift.

“Every auto worker here will be out of a job within three years if I’m not elected — every auto worker in this state,” he said. “They’re all going to be made in China.”

Trump also accused prosecutors of targeting him. He was convicted earlier this year in New York of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

“They don’t arrest people anymore and they shouldn’t arrest people for saying the election was rigged, but they like that,” he said. “They go after guys like me, but they don’t go after people that kill people. It’s a shame what’s happened in our country.”

Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes said Trump’s misrepresenting his record on crime and public safety.

“His visit here to talk about safety is laughable — violent crime spiked under his watch, and he’s running on an extreme Project 2025 agenda that would defund law enforcement, abolish common-sense gun safety measures, and give Trump unchecked power,” she said in a statement released by the Michigan Democratic Party.

Harris has said investing in EV production will keep vehicle supply chains based in the U.S.

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Vance pushes immigration and crime heavy message in Macomb County

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Colin Jackson
Immigration and crime headlined a media stop from Republican nominee for Vice President J.D. Vance in Michigan on Wednesday.
Vance’s appearance in Shelby Township came within weeks of the arrest of a man there who authorities say was in the country without documentation. The suspect was accused of sexually assaulting a child.
Vance doubled down on a proposal from the campaign to mass deport millions of people.
“If you’re not willing to tell at least some of the people who are in this country illegally that you have to go back, then you don’t have a real border policy and, unfortunately, that’s what Kamala Harris has given this country,” Vance said.
Numbers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show hundreds of thousands of people have been deported since Harris became vice president.
Meanwhile, the Office of Homeland Security Statistics estimates there are more than 10 million people living in this country without permission from immigration officials. Many have questioned the impact removing all of them would have on the country’s economy.
Vance’s visit to Michigan follows Harris choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
Vance accused Walz of leaning too far to the left on issues like transgender youth, providing IDs to undocumented people and responding to social demonstrations in 2020.
“This is a radical human being who comes from the far-left wing of the Democrat party. And what Kamala Harris is telling all of us by selecting Tim Walz is that she bends the knee to the far left of the Democrat party,” Vance said.
Meanwhile, the Harris campaign accuses Vance of being too far to the right. That’s especially when it comes to abortion access, where Democrats point to Vance’s support of tough, no exceptions abortion restrictions.
Campaign officials said Wednesday’s press conference at the Shelby Township Police Station marked the first open-air event for the campaign since an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Security appeared turned up, with thorough car checks taking place and snipers lining nearby roofs.
Despite the precautions, Vance took questions from local reporters and criticized the Harris campaign for not fielding reporter questions herself in recent days.
One point of tension arose when a reporter asked Vance about Trump’s questioning of Harris’ race last week at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago.
Speaking to a largely Black audience there, Trump falsely claimed Harris “made a turn” to become Black when it became politically advantageous.
Harris is biracial and has always publicly acknowledged both heritages she comes from. Code switching is a term often associated with people of color that describes how someone may change their language to address different environments to find comfort in a space.
When asked about those remarks, Vance, who is married to an Indian American woman and is father of three biracial children, said he saw no trouble with Trump’s comments.
 
The Harris-Walz campaign made an appearance Wednesday at Detroit Metro Airport to address a crowd of roughly 15,000 union members and supporters. Vance’s campaign stops has followed the same path as Harris and Walz this week in an attempt to go toe to toe in important swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
 
Both campaigns had to cancel planned events in North Carolina on Thursday due to the arrival of Tropical Storm Debby.
 
WDET’s Jenny Sherman contributed to this report.

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