DETROIT (WKZO-AM) — Michigan hasn’t seen this much attention from the presidential candidates during a primary season in decades, suggesting just how important next Tuesday’s vote has become in this year’s race.
Candidates have criss-crossed the state for the last few days. Donald Trump will be making appearances in Detroit and Cadillac on Friday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, will be in west Michigan, making stops in Traverse City and at the Field House at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids on Friday.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans a rally at Detroit Manufacturing Systems on Friday afternoon.
Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be in Holland at the Herman Miller Greenhouse for a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. on Friday.
The Democrats debate in Flint on Sunday night.
The Republican Debate was Thursday at the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit.
Once again, Kasich was the only adult in the room. He not only avoided taking punches or delivering low blows, but also managed to deflect some of the cheap shots built into the questions asked by the moderators.
He stuck to his message, that he is the only remaining candidate with the federal budget and executive experience to be president.
Yet Kasich he remains in single-digits in the polls.
For the other candidates, it was a donnybrook, the kind of exercise in playground bullying, name-calling and one-upmanship that makes for great television, but may not be the best way to pick a presidential nominee.
If anyone was waiting for a rematch between Donald Trump and Fox moderator Megyn Kelly, they were probably disappointed. She presented a film of Trump contradicting himself on foreign policy issues and he just brushed it off, saying he was being “flexible” as situations changed, and avoided any reference to Kelly.
Anyone waiting for major discussions on the biggest issues impacting Michigan right now, the Flint water crisis and Detroit schools were also probably disappointed. Marco Rubio blamed Flint on a failure at all levels of government, Kasich made several errors about the Detroit Public Schools issue, and Ted Cruz wrote Detroit off as a failure of liberal policies.
