WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump tried to boost select Michigan candidates running for secretary of state, attorney general and the Legislature Saturday in a nearly two-hour address that aimed to cement his influence in the Michigan GOP.
Three weeks ahead of the Michigan Republican nominating convention, Trump criticized Michigan’s 2020 election as “rigged” and encouraged supporters to ask each state candidate at the April 23 nominating convention “if they will support the Trump ticket.”
“If they won’t give you that assurance, don’t give them your vote,” he said to a crowd of more than 5,000 people at the Michigan Stars Sport Center in Washington Township. Thousands of other attendees stood outside, mirroring the crowds Trump attracted at that location while president in 2018 and 2020.
