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at the Michigan 
Theatre

Violinist has electrifying 

performance

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NEWS
New tobacco law irks 
local business

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may hurt business, owners say

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NEWS
Augmented reality 
games at Mott

Patients at children’s hospital 

find therapy in unexpected source

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OPINION
Missing the 
mark 

Kevin Sweitzer discusses 

Donald Trump’s speech at 

the Detroit Economic Club

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Wolverines host Virginia on 

Thursday in exhibition match

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Vol. CXXVI, No. 127 | © 2016 The Michigan Daily 
michigandaily.com

Trump tries to reset campaign 
with economic speech in Detroit

See TRUMP, Page 9

Over one dozen 

protestors infiltrate 
audience and heckle 

GOP candidate

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

DETROIT— 
Republican 

presidential 
nominee 
Donald 

Trump 
visited 
Michigan 
to 

speak to the Detroit Economic 
Club 
about 
his 
soon-to-be-

released economic plan and to 
issue criticisms Hillary Clinton 
amid protests inside and out of 
the Cobo Center.

Trump’s 
speech 
addressed 

his economic plan — one of his 
campaign’s 
strongest 
aspects 

— 
following 
a 
tumultuous 

campaign week, in which he 
controversially 
feuded 
with 

the Khans, the family of a 
fallen Muslim American soldier 
who spoke at the Democratic 
National Convention last week. 
A recent Washington Post-ABC 
poll showed Trump eight points 
behind Clinton.

Also in attendance at the rally 

was Michigan Attorney General 
Bill Schuette who said he cannot 
personally stand by all of the 
statements Trump has made 
but believes Trump is the better 
candidate in this year’s election. 
Schuette said he supports Trump 
despite the comments he’s made 
about minorities — he believes 
Trump is the better candidate in 
terms of economic change.

“I’ve said months ago that 

comments that he’s made about 
women 
and 
minorities 
and 

Hispanics and disables, that’s 
not Bill Schuette, everybody 
knows that,” he said. “But the 
fact is, now we have two people. 
It’s Hillary Clinton or Donald 
Trump, and this is about jobs 
and paychecks, and it’s about 
change.”

In his speech, Trump outlined 

the city of Detroit as a once-
great metropolis, which has been 
ruined by trade policies enacted 
by 
Democratic 
leadership. 

Trump said Detroit’s fall came 
when the government allowed 
other countries to outperform 
the United States.

“The city of Detroit is where 

our 
story 
begins,” 
he 
said. 

“Detroit was once the economic 
envy of the world, but for many 
living in this city, that dream 
has long ago vanished. When we 
abandoned the policy of America 

first, 
we 
started 
rebuilding 

other countries instead of our 
own. The skyscrapers went up 
in Beijing while factories and 
neighborhoods crumbled right 
here in Detroit.”

Trump’s 
speech 
included 

much criticism of Clinton, stating 
her policies would be disastrous 
for the city and country. He even 
said Clinton has contributed to 
the city’s troubles and should 
apologize for doing so.

In his speech Trump accused 

Clinton of still harboring her 
support 
for 
Trans-Pacific 

Partnership — which has been 
theorized by its opponents to 
have the potential to export 
more American jobs overseas 
and 
increase 
the 
price 
of 

pharmaceutical 
and 
other 

high-cost goods — as she had 

LAURA MEYER/Daily

Protestor Rashida Tlaib is escorted out of the Detroit Economic Club meeting at Cobo Hall on Monday.

