DETROIT (WWJ) -- It's another packed week of campaigning in the hotly contested swing state of Michigan, with candidates and surrogates from both sides of the aisle working to build excitement, and draw votes.
Detroit superstar rapper Eminem will introduce Former President Barack Obama in Downtown Detroit before Obama's speech to rally voters for the Harris-Walz ticket Tuesday night, as early voting continues in the city. Then former First Lady Michelle Obama will be somewhere in Michigan Saturday with Vice President Kamala Harris for a rally.
Representing the competing ticket, Republican VP nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance is planning a Thursday evening visit to Waterford Township, where he's expected to deliver remarks at the Elite Jet Center at Contact.
Somewhere between the two tickets stands former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney — who's chosen to support the Democrats this time around.
One day after taking part in a moderated discussion with Harris in Royal Oak, Cheney appeared before members of the Detroit Economic Club, Tuesday afternoon.
WWJ Newsradio 950's Jon Hewett reports Cheney has arguably been former President Donald Trump's fiercest critic, having served as vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Speaking in Detroit on Tuesday, Cheney said the former president poses an even bigger danger to the rule of law if he is allowed to take office a second time.
"Donald Trump now believes he will be absolutely immune for anything that he does if he's elected again, absolutely immune from criminal prosecution," Cheney said. "Again, I ask you, think about what that means for this country and we have a better choice. We have somebody who will be the kind of leader this country needs."
Cheney asserts that Trump is "unfit" and just too dangerous to hold office again.
She also took time to point out Trump's recent public trashing of Detroit.
"Donald Trump likes to portray himself as some kind of, you know, expert, businessman and he came here to Detroit and he trashed the hell out of Detroit," Cheney said. "He seems to be completely unaware, you know that, that Detroit has an investment grade bond rating now, for the first time in years. He's completely unaware of the renaissance that Detroit is experiencing.
Cheney reinterested that she is endorsing Harris, even though she says she has policy differences with the vice president. That said, she believes Harris can be trusted in Cheney's words to "support the rule of law and the Constitution."
Trump was last in Michigan last Friday, when he spoke at a roundtable event at Engineering Design Services Company in Auburn Hills, and then a rally at Detroit's Huntington Place.
Speaking on the importance of the auto industry to Metro Detroit, Michigan and the U.S. as a whole, Trump reiterated his interest in utilizing “giant tariffs” on Chinese and Mexican-made cars in particular. He vowed those tariffs would be 100%, “and if that doesn’t work, I’ll go to 200%.”
"I don’t care; they’re not gonna be selling cars here. Now, if they want to build their plant here — I hope here (in Metro Detroit) — but at least some place in the United States, that's a whole different ball game, but we’re not gonna have them building them in other countries and sending them into the United States,” Trump said.
While just the week before Trump made headlines by saying the entire country would "end up being like Detroit," during a speech in front of the Detroit Economic Club, on Friday he promised — is he's elected — "the days of Detroit’s economic glory will return, greater and stronger than ever before. I will put Detroit first, I will put Michigan first, and I will put America first." [Read more here].