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Trump’s late night pitch in Michigan: Democrats are ‘nauseously optimistic’
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Trump’s late night pitch in Michigan: Democrats are ‘nauseously optimistic’

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Donald Trump selected Michigan’s crucial Kent County as the final stop of his 2024 campaign, delivering a late-night closing argument in Grand Rapids just hours before. election day, while state Democrats describe themselves as “nauseatedly optimistic.”

“With your vote tomorrow, we can solve every problem facing our country and lead America to new heights of glory,” the three-time Republican nominee promised a cheering crowd at the city’s Van Andel Arena, which seats about 12,000 people.

Trump described Grand Rapids as a ‘special place’ before criticizing his Democratic challenger, the vice president Kamala Harris, called her a “radical left-wing lunatic” and claimed that “everything has been a disaster” under President Joe Biden.

In both 2016 and 2020, Trump concluded his White House campaigns with nightly rallies in Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city, that stretched into the early hours of Election Day.

“I kept saying we should end here… we can be a little superstitious, right?” Trump joked with his supporters during his 2020 rally.