(Source: MIRS.news, Published 10/01/2022) (WARREN) – Former President Donald Trump told rallygoers that America is headed toward being a Third World Country, and the sole way to prevent it from happening is to elect only America First candidates like Republicans Tudor Dixon, Kristina Karamo and Matt DePerno.
"Too many Republicans are weak and they’re afraid," Trump said. "And they better get strong fast, or you’re not going to have a Republican Party.”
His speech, the most popular one during Saturday night’s rally, touched on all the greatest hits: That he was the actual winner of the 2020 presidential election; his “persecution” by the FBI; Hillary Clinton and her emails; gang members coming across the Southern border and rampaging across the country; the radical left; and that he “was one of the most successful presidents in history.”
And the crowd hung on every word.
“Six weeks from now, the people of Michigan are going to vote to fire your radical left governor,” Trump said as the crowd erupted in cheers.
Far before the 5 p.m. start time of the Trump Save America Rally in Warren, a sea of red already covered the floor and bleachers. The crowd size at the Macomb Community College Sports and Expo Center was estimated to be between 5,000-6,000. However, the venue was fire approved for 6,500 people and the arena was only about half full.
Some lounged on the floor, others enjoyed cozy bleacher seats and most sported either the prototypical red Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat or shirts proclaiming the same.
Before Trump took the stage at 7 p.m., rallygoers heard speeches by the Michigan Republicans' top of the ticket, Dixon, the gubernatorial nominee; Karamo, the Secretary of State nominee and DePerno, the Attorney General nominee.
Other speakers included U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and U.S. Congressional candidate John James (MI-10).
The speeches were short on specific plans once elected, and big on hot button topics including abortion, illegal immigrants, drug cartels and bashing Gov. Gretchen WHITMER and Attorney General Dana Nessel, who each received chants of “lock her up” throughout the night.
DePerno said he would put an end to sex trafficking, fentanyl abuse and drug cartels in Michigan.
“As your next attorney general, I will fight to clean up this state,” he said. “Dana Nessel is too much of a coward to stand up to the illegal drug cartel. I will put an end to it when I’m attorney general.”
During her speech, Dixon said Whitmer was running a “basement campaign,” called her a coward for holding invite-only events and not answering questions from the media. She also said that Whitmer supported late-term abortions.
She said that she would make Michigan’s schools the best in the nation after she touched on the “failure” rate of Michigan’s 3rd graders.
Speaking to reporters during a break, Dixon said that her campaign was “within striking distance” of Whitmer based on a Trafalgar Group poll showing her down 6 points and that their message was “resonating” with voters.
All of the candidates appear to be banking on the enthusiasm from the MAGA crowd to put them over the edge come November. Rallygoers were all in, if the cheers, applause and chants were any indicator. But, as Trump said, the support is not solely for candidates who only identify as part of the MAGA movement.
“America First candidates are who we’re going to support,” said Ed Seyfried of Belleville.
Some attendees described themselves as ‘Ultra MAGA’ members, a moniker first coined by President Joe BIDEN and since taken over by the original MAGA crowd.
“I’m all for making America what our Founders wanted it to be, not what Donald Trump wants it to be. Not what Biden wants it to be. But what the Constitution said it should be,” said Mark HOWIE, Republican precinct delegate for Jefferson Township in Cass County.
“That’s what makes me Ultra MAGA.”
Seyfried said he sees the two-party system going away.
“We’re done with RINOs. America First candidates are the people who are going to prevail in this,” he said.
While Trump only spent a short time touting the Republican top of the ticket at the beginning of his speech, he shared the stage with them at the end of it, bringing Dixon up first (and separately), then DePerno and Karamo.
“We’re not going to let our kids be radicalized. We’re not going to let our kids be sexualized. We’re not going to let our law enforcement be demonized,” Dixon said.
“So, all I have to say to that is ‘stop trying to make reelection happen, Gretchen.’”
DePerno used his second at bat to say that Trump was the reason for the reversal of Roe v. Wade and stoked the crowd’s fear of what they believed the country would come to if Republicans didn’t win in November.
“Joe Biden, Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessel are destroying this great state,” DePerno said.
“Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, or an independent, that’s terrifying,” he said.
And Karamo used her second moment in the spotlight to say that come November, they were going to “take those three psychopaths out of Lansing.”
“There is nothing they can do to stop this MAGA movement," she said.
