Watch: Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Michigan

Benjamin Salmon

2 April 2024 at 2:55 pm·1-min read

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Watch as Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The presumptive Republican nominee is holding two rallies within hours of each other in Michigan and Wisconsin, days after opinion polls put both states in the balance between him and his Democrat rival, Joe Biden.

At this rally, Mr Trump brought up the murder of a Michigan woman and the arrest of a suspect who had crossed the southern border illegally into the US.

The woman, 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, was shot in her car by Brandon Ortiz-Vite, whom she was dating at the time.

Because of this, he focused on President Joe Biden's immigration policies, a major campaign issue for Republicans.

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