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Trump got 18 headlines while Hillary Clinton got 3. Who got the attention of media? These are free to both.
All publicity is good publicity. Trump trumpets up, trickle down to voters - cheap way to get your attention.
"Outsider?" You still get be "insider" to get work done. Hell, should we allow any trainee in the White House wasting out tax pay money? You call
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He also talked about rebuilding Detroit and Michigan — which has recovered 400,000 new private sector jobs since the last recession — if he is elected president.
“On Nov. 8, we’re going to end the Clinton corruption. We are going to put America first. Hillary Clinton is an insider fighting only for herself and her donors,” Trump said. “I’m an outsider fighting for you. We have a movement like we’ve never seen before. The corrupt media, which is totally corrupt … is working along with the political establishment and is totally panicking.”
But with 37 days left before the Nov. 8 election, Trump also told his listeners that it's their sacred duty to make it the polls, noting that even if a doctor told a voter them they would die by the end of November: "I don’t give a damn, show up and vote on Nov. 8."
It was Trump's fifth appearance in Michigan since the Republican National Convention in mid-July. He has made a speech on the economy at the Detroit Economic Club, visited churches in Detroit and Flint and held a rally in Dimondale outside Lansing.
Bob Cortis of Livonia arrived at the rally driving a silver SUV adorned with four American flags on the roof and "TRUMP" in large letters. Cortis said it took nearly 30 hours over four days to create the sign and install the flags on his SUV.
"We want people to look at Trump seriously," said Cortis, who often hands out Trump information at rallies and events.
Recent polls have shown Clinton maintaining a lead in Michigan, which had ranged from 3 percentage points over Trump in an EPIC/MRA poll done for the Detroit Free Press earlier this month to 7 percentage points in a poll done this week for the Detroit News.
For Ed Mulka of Taylor the stakes in this election could not be higher.
"After researching Hillary, he’s our only chance from us becoming the New World Order. Obama wants a caliphate to populate Muslims all over the world," Mulka said. "George Soros is funding Black Lives Matter, and this is basically for the North American Union — (a conspiracy theory that would) combine Canada, South America and the United States all into one. If we lose this election, we’re over."
Pat of Shelby Township who didn’t want to give her last name, said Trump is her candidate because she thinks Clinton is corrupt. She is concerned, however, that Trump is too easily distracted from the big issues facing America.
“I think he needs to keep his mouth shut on all these needling things," she said. "He needs to quit bending down to her needling. He needs to leave it alone and hang up that Twitter account.”
There was no mention of the Twitter controversy surrounding former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, including the middle of the night missives Trump sent early Friday disparaging the beauty queen. And he stayed away from problems in the Clintons' marriage during his speech.
Several hours before the rally, a group of about a dozen supporters of Clinton gathered at a steelworkers union hall to predict what would happen if Trump is elected president.
"Donald Trump is truly a danger to this country," said Michigan state House Minority Leader Tim Greimel, D-Auburn Hills. "He took pride in rooting for the housing crisis because he was personally profiting off it. The reality is that Donald Trump only cares about millionaires and billionaires like himself."
Ron Bieber, president of the AFL-CIO of Michigan, added that Trump "doesn't give a rip about working people," and once advocated moving high-wage union jobs out of Michigan to lower wage states in an effort to get Michigan workers to accept wage concessions out of desperation.
"Michigan can't afford a president who says 'I don't want to raise the minimum wage,' who chooses to make his suits and ties in China and Mexico," Bieber said. "Michigan needs Hillary Clinton. She's the only candidate who's ready to lead our economy on day one."
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