Thursday was the day when former President Donald J. Trump held a rally in the state of Michigan, which is considered to be a crucial battleground. His persistent incorrect assertions and exaggerations on a variety of themes, such as the election in 2020 and the response of the federal government to Hurricane Helene, were the primary reasons why the rally was so exceptional. The fact that Trump proceeded to overstate his claims was another key aspect of the situation.
Mr. Trump resumed a pattern of false assertions that have been characteristic of many of his events as the elections for the presidency of the United States of America in 2024 near their closing weeks. These are claims made during the approximately eighty-five minutes that Mr. Trump spent onstage.
Mike Rogers, former congressman from Michigan and Republican candidate for the open Senate seat in Michigan, and Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, were both in attendance among the crowd of supporters in Saginaw County which he narrowly lost four years ago. Saginaw County is in the state of Michigan.
At the same time as Mr. Trump has reiterated his well-publicized false claims of winning the 2020 election, he failed to mention any of the new evidence presented against him on Wednesday in the federal election tampering scandal. This was the major lacuna in his argument.
In addition, he said his campaign leads every poll in every swing state, despite many public polls showing the election is close, with Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly ahead in some battlegrounds. He said this despite the fact that the races are close.
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The existing financing position at the Federal Emergency Management Agency was misrepresented by Mr. Trump, who made a further misrepresentation of the situation. He stated that the administration of Vice President Joe Biden had taken money from the agency that was supposed to be used for disaster assistance and used it to give residences for undocumented immigrants in order to urge them to vote for Democrats. He said this took place in order to encourage them to vote for Democrats.
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla, who has funded his campaign and pushed him extensively on X, the social media site that Musk controls, depicted electric autos as a threat to the automotive industry. At the same time, he praised Musk for his support of his campaign.
The state of Michigan was one of the few swing states in which Mr. Trump and his aides attempted to overturn his loss in the election that took place in 2020. So far they have achieved this: they have publicized their actions, such as hacking voting machines and attempts to rig the presidential election. The state is also where some of his supporters were trained in criminal charges after Trump was indicted as a co-conspirator earlier this year.
During his speech, Mr. Trump took advantage of the opportunity to express his pleasure with the Ohio senator JD Vance’s choice to run with him as his vice president. Many people have shown their delight with the performances Senator Vance had during the talks that occurred during this week.
This is what Mr. Trump had to say about Mr. Vance: “I drafted the best athlete.” As they met at a leisure center on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University, which sits about 100 miles north of Detroit, a crowd of several thousand enthusiasts chanted in support of the candidate.
Even while he was sitting on a beach in Monte Carlo or some other location, he entertained the idea that he might be running for president once more. This was a thought that he entertained at one point. “If I had the choice between being here with you today or being on some magnificent beach with the waves hitting me in the face, I would choose to be with you every single time,” she stated in response.
But the average of The New York Times polls as of Wednesday indicates that Ms. Harris is two percentage points ahead in Michigan. True, his opponent polled 47 percent, while he got 49 percent. The campaign swing will take him back to the state in the 19th century on Friday when, allegedly, the vice president will return to where the auto revolution first took place. He will visit Detroit and Flint.