Trump returns to campaign trail in Michigan with JD Vance – NEWSnet

Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance at the 2024 RNC. Photo date: 7/15/24.

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LANSING, Mich. (NEWSnet/AP) — Republican Donald Trump will hold his first public campaign rally since being wounded in an assassination attempt on Saturday in the crucial state of Michigan, where he is working with his new running mate.

The joint meeting with Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio is the pair’s first since they were nominated by the GOP at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump kicked off the Republican gathering by naming Vance as his vice presidential nominee and closed it with a speech urging unity following a July 13 shooting in Pennsylvania that left Trump with a bloody ear and one man dead in the crowd.

Michigan is one of the crucial swing states expected to determine the outcome of the presidential election.

Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 by just over 10,000 votes, but Democrat Joe Biden won again in 2020 by a margin of 154,000 votes on his way to the presidency.

Democrats dominated recent elections in Michigan, but Republicans now see an opening in the state as Democrats become increasingly divided over whether Biden should withdraw from the race.

Biden has maintained that he will not give up.

The 81-year-old incumbent Democrat, who appeared in Detroit this month, is currently in isolation at his beachfront home in Delaware after being diagnosed with COVID-19.