REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Vice President Kamala Harris was in Michigan Friday on the campaign trail. Her two stops included Redford Township and Flint.
The presidential candidate invited guests to the Redford Township Fire Department including firefighters, their families and members of various unions.
“The bottom line is when unions are strong, America is strong," Harris said.
Josh Woodford, a member of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters, attended the campaign rally.
“All the support that she’s given the unions over the last couple of years, and without the union support, it would make our jobs a lot harder. Whether it be safety on the job site, backing our union pension, anything of that sort, it really does help,” he said.
About a mile away at Donutown, 7 News Detroit spoke with some of their regular customers about Harris being in town.
“All she can do is present a strong message of what her agenda will be if she is elected president, and she needs to remind people who are in doubt (about) January 6th,” voter Deborah Quarles said.
When asked what issues are important to him, voter Marvin Johnson said, "I think about small business (and) giving people $50,000 small interest loans.”
Voter Dan Sutherland said, "I think she can do a pretty good job actually, but I don’t like the idea that she’s getting blamed for everything that’s going on even though she hasn’t been the president. But ya know, she’ll have her chance if she gets in. I hope she does.”
During her 17-minute speech, Harris reiterated a number of her campaign promises like investing in manufacturing, addressing the housing shortage, helping small businesses get off the ground and to address inflation.
“And so we have a plan to lower cost on everything from health care to groceries including what I've done in my time as attorney general, which is we gotta take on corporate price gouging," Harris said.
"We gotta take on what we need to do to understand that if you want to grow the middle class, we need more middle-class tax cuts.”
Thursday, in Saginaw, former President Donald Trump also spoke on the economy.
"Starting on day one of my new administration, we will end inflation and we will make America affordable again. It's not affordable. They kill you," Trump said.
In response to Harris' visit to Michigan, the TrumpcCampaign released the following statement:
Kamala Harris has had three and a half years to listen to Michiganders and make life better. Instead, she's raised the cost of living, created a southern border crisis so bad even Michigan is suffering, and wants to fundamentally change the blueprint of our state by banning gas powered cars. Kamala Harris is out of touch, dangerously liberal, and wrong for Michigan.
