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Trump is in Dearborn, Michigan, trying to win over Arab-American voters

Trump is in Dearborn, Michigan, trying to win over Arab-American voters

Updated November 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM ET

DEARBORN, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris enter the final weekend of the campaign with stops in the “Blue Wall” swing states, with both candidates holding Friday evening rallies in Milwaukee.

Trump entered Dearborn, Mich.where the city’s Arab-American voters are angry with the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza and Lebanon, and Harris has struggled to maintain support in that community.

In Michigan, home to the second-most electoral votes in the Blue Wall, Democrats are hoping to retain a state that Biden won four years ago after Trump carried Michigan by just over 10,000 votes in 2016.

Before her Milwaukee rally, Harris plans to stop at a union hall in Janesville and an event in Appleton. She will almost certainly include in her comments the violent language used by Trump in a late-night tirade against former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Trump has emphasized comments from Biden that sounded like he was calling Trump supporters “trash.”

Harris and Trump are expected to focus some of their messaging Friday on workers, who make up a significant portion of the electorate in both states. Along with Pennsylvania – the third of the “Blue Wall” states – Michigan and Wisconsin are home to a larger population of white voters without college degrees who are eligible to vote than the four other swing states up for grabs.

Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes. Their goal is to attract new voters Trump Tuesday night.

Trump will hold his Milwaukee rally at the Fiserv Forum, the same arena where he formally accepted the Republican nomination days after an election victory. assassination attempt. Harris will be at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center, with an array of musical artists including the Isley Brothers and rappers GloRilla and Flo Milli.

The final push

The Midwest swing Thursday followed both campaigns’ stops in Arizona and Nevada — where Harris and Trump both sought to build support among Latino voters.

This weekend, they’ll race from swing state to swing state, trying to rally supporters and win over the last remaining undecided voters. Harris will make stops in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin before wrapping up her campaign Monday with a series of rallies in Pennsylvania — including one in Allentown, where more than half the people are Latino, mostly Puerto Rican.

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