{"id":1956859,"date":"2023-06-25T22:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-returns-to-michigan-with-hopes-of-repeating-the-battleground-success-he-found-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:26:10","slug":"trump-returns-to-michigan-with-hopes-of-repeating-the-battleground-success-he-found-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-returns-to-michigan-with-hopes-of-repeating-the-battleground-success-he-found-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hopes to replicate his 2016 battleground success in Michigan."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-returns-to-michigan-with-hopes-of-repeating-the-battleground-success-he-found-in-2016%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956859&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump Returns to Michigan in Bid to Reclaim Lost Territory<\/h2>\n<p>LANSING, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump appeared in Michigan on Sunday as he looks to reclaim territory that helped propel him to the White House but slipped from his grasp four years later.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigning for a return to the presidency while facing a federal indictment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-launches-2024-presidential-bid\/\" title=\"Trump Launches 2024 Presidential Bid\">allegedly mishandling classified documents<\/a>, Trump spoke in suburban Detroit, where he lost ground between 2016 and 2020 and would need to win it back if he becomes the 2024 Republican nominee. He would have to reverse the recent trend in Michigan that has seen Democrats make some of their biggest gains nationally since Trump\u2019s reelection loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>FOURTH OF JULY AIRFARE DOWN BY 27% FROM LAST YEAR<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump spoke at Oakland County GOP\u2019s Lincoln Day Dinner, where he was honored by the party as its \u201cMan of the Decade.\u201d Trump frequently attacked President Joe Biden throughout his speech Sunday, saying Biden was a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d for Michigan and auto production in the state. Trump also criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a co-chair of Biden\u2019s reelection campaign, for approving state funds for a foreign company.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first campaign appearance in Michigan, one of three states, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, that flipped in 2016 to put Trump in the White House and Biden, a Democrat, four years later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s popularity in Michigan has taken a hit since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Trump\u2019s calculations, he needs to win Michigan again to be the president. But he\u2019s been very disruptive here,\u201d said Dave Trott, a former GOP congressman. \u201cTrump largely is the reason why the Michigan Republican Party is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Trump\u2019s endorsed candidates in Michigan were among the loudest in repeating his unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s choice for attorney general, Matthew DePerno, spent the final months of his campaign under investigation into whether he should be criminally charged for attempting to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election. Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-tells-community-colleges-your-students-and-their-families-are-carrying-the-brunt-of-the-crisis\/\" title=\"Jill Biden Tells Community Colleges: \u2018Your Students And Their Families Are Carrying The Brunt Of The Crisis\u2019\">community college professor<\/a>, was handpicked by Trump as the Republican nominee for secretary of state after claiming she saw election fraud as a poll challenger in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the statewide candidates he backed were overwhelmingly defeated, including Tudor Dixon, who lost by over 10 percentage points to Whitmer.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Republicans controlled all levels of state government from 2011 to 2019. Now, they are powerless for the first time in 40 years. The shift has been particularly evident in Oakland County, home to the largest number of Republican voters in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who know Michigan electoral politics would say that it\u2019s pretty important that if Republicans are going to carry the state, they need to win Oakland County,\u201d Trott said.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump lost the county in 2016 and 2020, Biden received nearly 100,000 more votes than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton did there and won the state by about 155,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Trott, who represented Oakland County in the U.S. House from 2015 to 2019, initially endorsed Trump in 2016 but later said Trump was \u201cunfit for office.\u201d Trump\u2019s support among Republicans in the Legislature has declined, with 25 lawmakers having already publicly backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president. Trump said Sunday that DeSantis has \u201cno personality\u201d and that his campaign is \u201cfalling like a rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among state GOP officials, however, support for Trump has not wavered. In February, Republican precinct delegates selected Karamo to lead the party after she lost by 14% in the midterms. One of the first moves by new party leadership was a vote to change the state\u2019s traditional process of allocating all presidential delegates based on a primary open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Under a new plan widely expected to help Trump, Michigan will award just 16 of the state\u2019s 55 delegates based on the results of the Feb. 27 primary. The distribution of the remaining 39 delegates will come four days later in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-returns-to-michigan-with-hopes-of-repeating-the-battleground-success-he-found-in-2016\/\" title=\"Trump hopes to replicate his 2016 battleground success in Michigan.\">closed-door caucus meetings<\/a>, conducted by the same party members who selected Karamo to lead the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan gives Trump a significant leg up over the rest of the field. He\u2019s a grassroots favorite in the state and he\u2019s made Michigan his political playground for the last seven years,\u201d said Jason Cabel Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Karamo said she will remain impartial in the primary. She contends the party was forced to make the change after Michigan Democrats voted to move the state\u2019s primary from the second week of March to Feb. 27, a violation of the Republican National Committee\u2019s rules that could have resulted in a loss of delegates.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether Trump or his team had lobbied for the presidential primary change, Karamo refused to answer. She said she doesn\u2019t \u201cdiscuss conversations with the different campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to protect the voice of Michigan voters. So whether or not it may help one candidate over another, that\u2019s totally irrelevant,\u201d Karamo said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Karamo, the Michigan GOP \u201cworked on\u201d the plan with the RNC and expects the national party to approve the new primary setup.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>The RNC said its conversations with the state party \u201cfocused on rules and process rather than the substance and language of Karamo\u2019s specific plan \u2014 the sort of guidance they offer each state party as they begin to formulate their individual paths forward for delegate selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to reviewing each state and territory\u2019s plans,\u201d RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump made a Michigan appearance, aiming to regain the support that propelled him to the White House but slipped away in the last election. Despite facing a federal indictment for mishandling classified documents, he campaigned for a presidential comeback, addressing the crowd in suburban Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}