Donald Trump Held a rally in Novi Michigan in Oakland County on Saturday at the Suburban Collection Showplace, 10 days before Election Day and as in-person early voting opens statewide. His Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is also in Michigan today, visiting Kalamazoo with Michelle Obama for a get-out-the-vote rally.

In the final days leading up to the presidential election, the GOP presidential candidate told party insiders: Detroit suburban it he would “Detroit is finally great again after 45 years.” He stated that he was “very angry” about his speech at the Detroit Economic Club recently. humiliated the city earlier in the month (Detroit-born Lizzo applauded her remarks when the singer gathered with Harris, saying the country “will be” if Harris wins.)tough like Detroit”)

On Saturday, he doubled down on his degrading view of Detroit, damaging the US city once again.

“They want me to say, ‘Oh Detroit is great and all that,'” he lamented. “He needs help.” He added: “And people said, ‘Oh, he wasn’t very positive.’ “Although Detroit’s economic outlook has improved in recent years and is expected to increase in the near future, I cannot be positive about Michigan’s largest city,” he said. Economic Outlook of the University of Michigan The city of Detroit suggests.

“Detroit and some of our areas make us a developing country,” Trump said. he said It has the highest total GDP in the United States and is one of the 10 richest countries in the world. He claimed that “China has no such place”, implying that China does not have poor areas like Detroit or any of the other unnamed areas he mentioned, which is simply not true.

Trump also emphasized that rank-and-file members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) support him during his speech in the Motor City suburb, and in the process mocked UAW President Shawn Fain, calling him a fool. UAW officially endorses Kamala HarrisBut some rank-and-file members support him.

During his speech, he also mentioned that he would bring auto manufacturing jobs back to Detroit if he won, but later hedged on whether those facilities could be located in Detroit. The response to this part of his speech was unsurprisingly lackluster.

Trump in 2020 I lost Oakland County The vote went to President Joe Biden 42 percent to 56 percent, with Biden also taking the state. Trump also lost the county to Hillary Clinton in 2016, 43 percent to 51 percent, but took the state by 10,704 votes. In Michigan, nearly 1.4 million ballots have already been returned, representing about 25 percent of the total votes in the 2020 presidential race. Detroit News reports.

As in national polls, the two candidates are neck and neck in the tough state of Michigan. Inside 538 Project and ABC News According to the latest poll averages, Harris is receiving 47.6 percent of the votes and Trump is receiving 47.2 percent as of Saturday morning. last New York Times/Siena Survey The report released Friday left Harris and Trump deadlocked with 48 percent of the popular vote each.