Former President Trump is expected to hold a rally in the battleground state of Michigan next week to focus on the situation on the southern border.
The Trump campaign announced that the former president will deliver a speech on “Biden’s Border Bloodshed” in Grand Rapids on Tuesday afternoon. He is scheduled to hold a rally in Wisconsin later that day.
The use of the term “bloodbath” is a reference to President Trump’s tirade earlier this month when he said at a rally in Ohio that there would be a “bloodbath” in November if he lost. be. While critics took note of the comment and suggested that Trump was warning of political violence, Trump and his allies pointed to the context in which he used the word. , claimed to be specifically talking about the auto industry.
The Michigan and Wisconsin rallies are rare events since Trump was nominated as the Republican Party’s nominee earlier this month.
The former president’s ability to hold future rallies could be restricted after a New York judge set an April 15 trial date in Trump’s lawsuit over hush money charges during the 2016 campaign. be. Trump is in court four out of five days a week, leaving little time for large campaign events.
Michigan is expected to be one of the few battleground states that will decide the November election. President Biden won the state by about 155,000 votes in 2020, but polls show it is a close race in the state with less than eight months until Election Day.
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