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Donald Trump and JD Vance are holding a campaign rally in Michigan this week

Donald Trump and JD Vance are holding a campaign rally in Michigan this week

(CBS) – Fresh from the Republican National Convention, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Ohio Senator and running mate JD Vance will stop in Michigan this weekend.

According to Trump’s campaign team, the rally will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids.

On Monday, Trump announced Vance as his vice presidential running mate on social media before accepting the presidential nomination at the RNC in Milwaukee.

“The people of Michigan have suffered greatly under the failed policies of fraudster Joe Biden,” said a statement from Trump’s campaign team. “With inflation at nearly 20 percent, families are paying $980 more per month for everyday goods. If Biden is re-elected, the tax increases he proposes will cost the average Michigan taxpayer an additional $2,054 per year in taxes.”

Saturday’s rally marks the former president’s fifth visit to Michigan in 2024 and the first since his Round table discussion at Detroit’s 180 Church and spoke at the People’s Convention held by Turning Point Action in June at Huntington Place in Detroit. Trump last visited Grand Rapids in Aprilwhen he focused on immigration and crime.

President Joe Biden was in Detroit last week amid calls from some members of the Democratic Party for him to drop out of the race.

“You made me the nominee, no one else – not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not the donors,” Biden told the Detroiters. “You, the voters. You decided. No one else. And I’m not going anywhere.”

A recent CBS News Poll shows that Trump has a two percentage point lead over Biden in the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.