With the Nov. 5 election fast approaching, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are setting their sights on the key battleground state of Michigan on Friday.
The vice president began her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, northwest of Detroit.
The former president had a campaign event in Oakland County Friday afternoon and then held an evening rally in Detroit.
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Trump says he’s ‘confident’ China will not invade Taiwan
Donald Trump is confident China wouldn’t invade Taiwan if he returns to the White House.
Why? Because Chinese President Xi Jinping “knows I’m f——— crazy.”
That’s according to Trump’s latest interview with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which published highlights from the 90-minute sit-down on Friday.
Trump said it would be “very easy” to persuade China’s leader to stand down from a blockade of Taiwan.
“I had a very strong relationship with him. He was actually a really good, I don’t want to say friend—I don’t want to act foolish, ‘he was my friend’—but I got along with him great,” Trump told the Journal editorial board. “He stayed at Mar-a-Lago with me, so we got to know each other great. He’s a very fierce person.”
And how exactly would his relationship with Xi prevent an invasion of Taiwan?
First, Trump said he would threaten to impose tariffs of 150% to 200%.
Asked whether he would use military force, Trump responded: “I wouldn’t have to, because he respects me and he knows I’m f——— crazy.”
Trump makes quip about immigration chart
Donald Trump likes to rail against illegal immigration. But Friday night in Detroit, he had something nice to say about it.
“Illegal immigration saved my life, if you think about,” Trump said.
The Republican presidential candidate was referencing the chart on illegal immigration that he turned to look at, just as an assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
“I sleep with it. I kiss it every night,” Trump said of the chart. He added, “I do have that throbbing feeling in my right ear.”
Harris crowd chants ‘lock him up’
Kamala Harris supporters chanted “lock him up,” when the Democratic nominee told the crowd at a Michigan rally on Friday that Donald Trump was an “unserious” man who should not be allowed near the White House.
“Here’s the thing about that. The courts are going to take care of that,” she said, referencing the Republican nominee’s multiple criminal cases.
“We’re gonna take care of November,” she said, talking about winning the presidential election.
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