JD Vance returning to Michigan, this time for a rally in Kent County on Tuesday
JD Vance, the junior U.S. Senator from Ohio and former President Donald Trump's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, is returning to Michigan.
Vance will deliver remarks Tuesday afternoon in Sparta, a community with a bit more than 4,200 residents around 15 miles north of Grand Rapids. The event will take place at Apple Valley Events and is open to the public, although general admission tickets must be registered for online. Vance is scheduled to speak at 1:30 p.m.
The visit will come just before Trump holds a town hall in Flint, scheduled for Tuesday evening. Both Trump and Vance have been frequent visitors to Michigan in recent months, with Vance most recently holding an Aug. 27 rally in Mecosta County's Big Rapids. Trump's most recent Michigan stop was an Aug. 29 event in Eaton County's Potterville.
Although there was not a subject listed for Vance's remarks, the Trump campaign continued to hammer Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration and the border. Immigration is an issue Trump has raised repeatedly on the campaign trail.
"Kamala has failed Michigan in every way imaginable – from the skyrocketing cost of living to a surge in illegal immigrants," the Trump campaign wrote in a news release.
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Michigan is expected to be one of several battleground states crucial to deciding the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Opinion polls between Harris and Trump currently feature razor-thin margins.
The Harris campaign has also been making frequent stops in Michigan — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' running mate, held a rally in Grand Rapids Thursday before stopping in Lansing Friday. Harris' most recent visit to Michigan was a Labor Day appearance in Detroit.
Shafeeqa Kolia, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign in Michigan, criticized Vance's planned visit, saying in a statement "From monitoring women’s pregnancies and banning abortion nationwide to hiking taxes on Michiganders by $3,900 per year and sending our jobs overseas, JD Vance and Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda is too extreme for Michiganders."
Both campaigns are expected to make multiple more visits throughout Michigan before the Nov. 5 election.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: JD Vance to return to Michigan for Tuesday rally in Sparta
