Benson: So you're telling me you don't want my opponent, John James, leading this state?
Crowd: NO!
Benson: I will proudly stand up to anyone who tries to stand in the way of your rights, your freedoms, your privacy, and our democracy.
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Benson: So you're telling me you don't want my opponent, John James, leading this state?
Crowd: NO!
Benson: I will proudly stand up to anyone who tries to stand in the way of your rights, your freedoms, your privacy, and our democracy.
Benson: Who do you want leading this state when Donald Trump tries to pressure the governor to overturn an election? Who do you want leading when Trump tries to illegally send ICE agents to our polling places?
Crowd: Benson! Benson! Benson!
Jocelyn Benson recounts Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election:
As Secretary of State, I stood up to Trump. I defeated his plan to illegally overturn an accurate election. Those election lies, they weren't just coming from Donald Trump. My opponent John James lied too.
Benson: My opponent John James has become a multi-millionaire buying stocks in companies that he regulates. He's voted to raise healthcare costs. He's supporting a reckless war in Iran and tariffs that are driving up costs. He does not stand for the people of Michigan. He stands with Donald Trump.
Benson: This election, voters will face a simple choice: Who do we want our leaders to work for? The people, or the powerful? Well, you all know who I'm fighting for. Every Michigander.
A fired-up crowd erupts into cheers for Jocelyn Benson in Detroit
Trump: We're thinking about striking Iran maybe tomorrow. But I'm not going to tell you
Trump: So I started explaining, 'Look at this guy's body!' And people said, 'What the hell was that?'
A tired and defeated-sounding Trump laments that he "wasn't in the mood to play" golf today
Trump calls backlash to Vivek Ramaswamy's ad a "disgrace":
"The mother said that Amy Acton is a liar and is no good. I don't think you could get a better reference than that."
Q: You said you urged the DOJ to sue Alaska. What do you say to those concerned about independence of the Justice Department?
Trump: It's a totally corrupt situation. So I told the DOJ to look at it
Q: Polls show government corruption has shot to the top in concerns this election. Why do you think that is?
Trump: Corruption is one of the biggest things.
Q: There have also been some allegations—
Trump: Jeffrey Epstein is all Democrat corruption.
Sen. Ossoff: The production of white nationalist and antisemitic propaganda has continued from Mike Collins’ home while he sits in the House of Representatives and runs for a six-year term in the Senate. It is disqualifying. It is obscene. And in 10 days, we will end his political career.
Sen. Ossoff: In 10 days, we turn things around. In 10 days, we will rebuke this corruption with such power that no president will dare anything like this again for centuries. In 10 days, we will prove what is possible when we unite.
Mary Peltola: Fish, family, freedom — the freedom part includes the freedom to vote for whoever we think is the best candidate.
Obama on Trump's construction projects: "What's up with the gold? He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory"
Obama hugs Amy Acton as she and Sherrod Brown join him onstage
Obama: In recent days, we've seen there's no line Vivek won't cross to try to get in the limelight. Think about this latest ad he ran. There's a decency we should expect out of our public officials. And I don't know what's happened where the standards have gotten so low. Character matters.
Obama: Jon Husted is the same guy who pushed so hard for data centers, he's been called a 'data center's best friend.' Now, I don't know if that's a title I'd want. You know who hasn't been called that? Sherrod Brown.
Obama: Republicans are doing what they always do—running all kinds of scary ads about Democrats and how the woke police will arrest you and force-feed you tofu. We are not going to fall for that. They run that same okie doke every election. It's tired. Tired!
Obama: I almost feel bad for Acton and Brown's Republican opponents. Almost. After spending the past couple years doing Trump's bidding, they've now come to realize everybody's upset about these broken promises. So what are they doing? Pretending like they've never heard of the guy. Donald who?
Obama: This election is our best chance to rein in some of the foolishness of this administration. It's the circuit breaker in our system. We need to start bringing some accountability. And we need to start showing the American people what real leadership looks like.
Obama: The only bill Trump passed of any significance was a trillion-dollar tax break that mostly benefited the richest Americans.
Crowd: BOOOO!
Obama: What did I say? Don't boo—VOTE!
Obama: I don't recall anybody asking for masked agents running through our streets. I don't recall anybody talking about law-abiding citizens being arrested, detained, or shot. We did not ask for that. That's not what we have to do to get our borders under control.
Obama: The big trade war Trump started now is with that well-known evil empire... Canada! I mean, these are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short. They're the nicest people! And he's picking a fight with them.
Obama: Y'all must not've been to my rallies before, bc you know you're not supposed to boo. What are you supposed to do?
Crowd: VOTE!
Obama: They can't hear your boos, but they can hear your vote
Obama: It is great to be with your next governor, Amy Acton, and your next senator, Sherrod Brown.
Obama walks out to raucous crowd cheering so loudly that he has to tell them to "Settle down!"
Sherrod Brown: Ohioans won't stand for this rigged system any longer. Ohio is fighting back. You're demanding a senator who will work for Ohio, not for First Energy, not for data centers, not for Epstein, not for Wall Street.
Sherrod Brown: Elon Musk
Crowd: BOO!!!
Sherrod: Peter Thiel
Crowd: BOO!!!!
Sherrod: Donald Trump
Crowd: BOOOOOOO!!!!