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Tom Perkins in Clinton Township, Michigan

Trump’s pitch for autoworker votes in car heartland is short on autoworkers

Donald Trump greets guests at a campaign rally at an automotive parts manufacturer in Clinton Township, Michigan, on Wednesday.
Donald Trump greets guests at a campaign rally at an automotive parts manufacturer in Clinton Township, Michigan, on Wednesday. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As the rain came down a small crowd was still left outside Drake Enterprises, a non-union automotive manufacturing plant in Clinton Township, Michigan, on Wednesday night waiting for former president Donald Trump.

“We want to take our country back! Let Biden sleep in his hospital bed! We want guns! We want Trump!” shouted one of the 50 or so people still waiting as Trump’s motorcade pulled away from the sodden event. He declined to give his name.

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