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Kamala Harris returned to Michigan on Saturday for a meeting with former first lady Michelle Obama, the latest in a series of high-profile combinations from her campaign aimed at boosting turnout among the Democratic Party faithful as Republican rival Donald Trump tried to bring the Arab state to justice. voters.
After arriving in the battleground state, Harris went to a local doctor’s office in Portage to talk to health care providers and medical students about the impact of abortion restrictions.
One said she is seeing patients coming from other parts of the country where there are strict restrictions on abortion, and another said she is concerned that people will not want to practice in important areas of medicine for fear of government interference .
“We are looking at a health care crisis in America that affects people of every background and gender,” Harris told reporters before visiting the doctor’s office.
Harris appeared with Beyoncé in Houston on Friday, and on Thursday she campaigned with former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen in Atlanta.
The US elections are less than two weeks away and presidential candidates have turned to a number of US media celebrities to promote their platforms. In Texas, Vice President Kamala Harris was joined on stage by singer Beyoncé, while former President Donald Trump made an appearance on UFC color commentator Joe Rogan’s podcast.
It’s a level of celebrity influence that surpasses anything Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has managed to achieve this year. But there is no guarantee that Harris will help in the tight race for the White House. In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, despite electrifying her audience with musical performances and Democratic allies.
Trump dismissed Harris’ attempt to leverage star power for her campaign.
“Kamala is at a dance with Beyoncé,” the former president said Friday in Traverse City, Michigan.
Saturday is the first day early in-person voting is available across Michigan. More than 1.4 million ballots have already been submitted, representing 20 percent of registered voters.
Trump won the state in 2016, but Democrat Joe Biden won the state four years later.
Michigan is home to major auto companies and the largest concentration of United Auto Workers members in the country. It also has a significant Arab-American population, and many are frustrated by the Biden administration’s support for the Israeli offensive in Gaza following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
At a rally on Saturday in the Detroit suburb of Novi, Trump spotlighted local Muslim and Arab-American leaders who joined him on stage. These voters “could swing the election one way or the other,” Trump said, adding that he was counting on “overwhelming support” from those Michigan voters.
“When President Trump was president, there was peace,” said one of those leaders, Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi. “We had no problems. There were no wars.”
While Trump seeks to capitalize on community frustration with the Democratic administration, he has a history of policies hostile to this group, including a travel ban targeting Muslim countries during his time in office and a promise to extend this to refugees from Gaza if he wins. on November 5.
A Trump ally, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, told reporters that Trump was winning the support of more Arab Americans and has built relationships with Middle Eastern leaders who want more stability in the region would bring.
