WAYNE COUNTY, MI – The country’s top politicians flocked to Metro Detroit on Wednesday as Vice President Kamala Harris, along with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, held a rally in a crowded airplane hangar at Detroit Metro Airport.
About 15,000 people filled the hangar, and the crowd streamed onto the tarmac and cheered as Air Force Two arrived. Michigan Democrats, including Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, U.S. Representatives Elissa Slotkin, Debbie Dingell and Shri Thanedar, and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, along with Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist, greeted Harris and her vice president.
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Before a raucous crowd, the candidates highlighted their own accomplishments and criticized their opponents – former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, who appeared in the suburb of Sterling Heights on Wednesday morning. A group of pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted the vice president before they were removed.
MLive’s photojournalists were on hand to capture the entire spectacle of the fly-in visit. Check out some of our favorite photos below, or click on the gallery above to see more.