DETROIT – Michigan has been a focus of the 2026 election campaign with Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s successful, relentless hate campaign against President Trump, police, AIPAC, and the state of Israel.

But the political smoke has obscured significant Midwest progress driven by Trump Administration and Republican congressional efforts on auto deregulation, tariffs, and crime in a reversal of disastrous Democrat Party policies.

The rollback of the Biden Administration’s electric vehicle mandates has stopped the financial hemorrhaging that reached $52 billion in losses last year for Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis combined. The Trump Administration’s tariffs — focused on bringing manufacturing like autos back from China, Mexico, and Canada — have yielded major plant announcements totaling thousands of jobs. Resisting El-Sayed’s battle cry to defund the police, Detroit has done the opposite, stepping up police presence in the crime-plagued city to reduce crime in sync with national trends.

“Never has someone in the Oval Office fought for us and understood our situation as well as President Trump,” said former Detroit Three autoworker and Autoworkers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker in an interview, pointing out that eliminating the electric vehicle (EV) mandate was job #1 for workers. “He calls me up on stage when he comes to town and I speak on behalf of my co-workers. I talk to a lot of those guys on a regular basis........

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