Harris Campaign Slams Trump for Hosting Event In ‘The KKK Capital of Michigan’

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign slammed former President Donald Trump for giving a speech in a small town named Howell, which the campaign labeled “the KKK capital of Michigan.”

Alyssa Bradley, Harris’s Michigan communications director, put out a statement blasting Trump’s chosen venue. Bradley wrote, “This [Tuesday] event on ‘crime and safety’ isn’t a dog whistle from Trump — it’s a bullhorn.”

“His visit underscores the core choice in this election — between a prosecutor and a criminal, someone who has spent her life making communities safer and someone who encourages violence, and someone who will build a future where all Michiganders can get ahead and someone who wants to take us back to the days of the KKK,” she added.

Reuters reported that the “event in Howell has attracted particular attention because of the town’s association with the Ku Klux Klan. The town has historical links to the KKK: In the 1970s, Grand Dragon Robert Miles had a Howell mailing address and held meetings on a nearby farm.” The report added:

About a dozen white supremacists chanted “Heil Hitler” and carried signs reading “White Lives Matter” during a march through downtown Howell last month. According to local media, another group of demonstrators shouted, “We love Hitler, we love Trump” from a highway overpass just outside Howell.

Bradley also jabbed Trump in her statement for “still not condemn[ing] this hateful event that happened in his name.”

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