No Trump celebration in Hamtramck today

Photo by Steve Paljusevic

By Charles Sercombe
There won’t be a visit by former president Donald Trump today (Thursday, Oct. 10).
According to his campaign staff, he ran out of time on his busy campaign schedule.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, spoke for about two hours today at the Detroit Economic Club in the early afternoon. An earlier tentative plan called for Trump to stop by the newly-opened campaign office, at Jos. Campau and Pulaski, either before or after Trump’s stop in Detroit.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump supporters at the office were seen putting up campaign signs and preparing for the possible visit.
Hamtramck recently drew national and international attention when Mayor Amer Ghalib, the city’s first Muslim and Yemeni immigrant to be elected to that office, announced his endorsement of Trump.
For decades, Hamtramck has been a Democratic stronghold.
Those of the Muslim faith now make up a majority of the city’s population that had been previously known as a Polish enclave.
Many in the Muslim community say they have broken ties with the Democratic Party over President Biden’s continued funding for military supplies to Israel in its deadly war in Gaza.
A number of those community members are also upset with what they view as “woke” cultural issues that the Democrats espouse, or at least what that community perceives of the Democratic message.
In the Democratic presidential primary election in February, most of the voters here voted “uncommitted” rather than cast a vote for Biden.
Posted Oct. 10, 2024