LANSING, Mich. — Vice President Kamala Harris is back in the Great Lakes battleground state of Michigan.
“It's time to make a plan to vote. Make a plan,” Harris told supporters Friday at a rally in Grand Rapids, the first of her last three stops. “Michigan, today we ask you…Are you ready to make your voice heard?”
And she stressed to the crowd: “We must galvanize, organize, mobilize and remind our neighbors and friends that their vote is their voice.”
But on Friday, with less than three weeks until Election Day, the Democratic presidential candidates couldn't hold Michigan to themselves.
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event Friday at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
Former President Trump, the standard-bearer of the Republican Party, is also in Michigan.
Trump's first stop was at his campaign office in Hamtramck, the only Muslim-majority city in the United States.
Hamtramck Democratic Mayor Amer Gharib, the first Arab-American and first Muslim to lead the city, attended the event. Mr. Ghalib made headlines a month ago when he endorsed Mr. Trump, even though three city council members from the same city supported Ms. Harris.
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In response to questions from reporters after arriving in Michigan, President Trump said of the mayor's support, “Frankly, I'm honored.''
Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris are trying to appeal to Michigan's powerful Arab American voters, who make up more than 2% of the state's population, the highest percentage of any state in the nation.
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, speaks at his campaign office in Hamtramck, Michigan, on Friday, with Hamtramck Mayor Amer Gharib watching. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
This year's Trump campaign has seen growing anger among Arab Americans over the current administration's support for Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.
“I don't think they'll vote for her,” Trump said.
“I hear we're in the lead in Michigan,” he said, referring to the state's latest polls.
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Many of the latest polls in battleground states show Trump with a slight advantage over Harris in a race with a margin of error.
Matt Grossman, a political science professor at Michigan State University, said Harris has a “soft spot” with Arab American voters and the state's sizable black voters. He focused on the unique power relationship.
Former Republican presidential candidate Trump will speak at his campaign office in Hamtramck, Michigan, on Friday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Michigan is one of seven key battleground states that narrowly decided President Biden's victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. All seven states are likely to decide whether Harris or Trump will succeed Biden in the November White House election.
Michigan, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are three Rust Belt states that make up the Democratic Party's so-called “blue wall.”
The party held steady control of all three states for a quarter of a century, until Mr. Trump narrowly carried them and won the White House in the 2016 election.
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Four years later, in 2020, Biden narrowly carried three states back into the Democratic column and defeated Trump.
Harris, who replaced Biden as the Democratic Party's top 2024 presidential candidate in July, and Trump and his running mate have visited the Blue Wall State numerous times this summer and fall.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will speak Friday at the UAW union hall in Lansing, Michigan. (FOX News/Paul Steinhauser)
Both Harris and Trump were scheduled to campaign in and around Detroit on Friday night.
The vice president was holding a rally in suburban Oakland County, and the former president was in the county for a roundtable discussion in Auburn Hills before leading a rally in downtown Detroit.
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Michigan is a must-win state for Harris, so she and Lizzo, the popular Motor City-born singer and rapper, will spend the night in Detroit holding a voting event on Saturday.
Rizzo revealed this week that she voted early for Harris.
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