Trump to make two more stops in Michigan as absentee ballots become available

Former President Donald Trump will make two campaign stops in Michigan on Friday, the day after absentee ballots become available to voters in the state for this fall's election.

The Republican presidential nominee will speak at 2 p.m. Friday at FALK Production in Walker in Kent County. Then, he will participate in a town hall at 6 p.m. Friday at Macomb Community College in Warren. General admission tickets for the town hall can be obtained online.

Trump participated in a similar town hall in Flint last week, on Tuesday, taking questions for about an hour from the crowd and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

"It’s painfully clear that Michiganders cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris, and voters in the Great Lakes State are eager to hear how President Trump will lower inflation and protect the auto industry," a statement from the Trump campaign said Sunday.

The Friday events will mark the former president's 10th visit to Michigan of the year, and the town hall will be his first major function in Macomb County of 2024. Trump delivered pizza to a campaign office in Roseville in August, but it was a surprise stop and not a rally, press conference or town hall.

Macomb County is Michigan's third largest county and represents a key battleground in the upcoming Nov. 5 election.

Trump has won Macomb in the last two presidential contests. Despite losing to Democrat Joe Biden statewide four years ago, Trump won Macomb by about 8 percentage points in 2020, 53%-45%. In 2016, Trump narrowly won Michigan against Democrat Hillary Clinton and beat her in Macomb by about 12 percentage points, 54%-42%.

This fall, Michigan is expected to be among seven battleground states that decide whether Trump or Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris is the president for the next four years.

Absentee ballots become available to voters on Thursday, 40 days before the Nov. 5 election, according to the Michigan Secretary of State's office.

Harris was last in Michigan Thursday for an event in Oakland County with Oprah Winfrey.

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