Trump campaigns in Michigan one day after Obama rallied against him

On the campaign trail today

• Trump in Michigan: President Donald Trump is heading to Port Huron, Michigan, to campaign for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, one day after former President Barack Obama rallied Democrats in the state and heaped criticism on his administration .

• Contentious Senate race: Trump is likely to rip into Rogers’ Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed, who Republicans have sought to associate with Islamic extremism. El-Sayed has defended himself from attacks on his Muslim faith and is also working to address potential challenges with Black voters.

• Midwest battleground: With nine days to go in the campaign cycle, the Midwest is a big reason why Republicans are worried about holding the House and the Senate. Furor over high costs and doubt about Trump’s willingness to change the nation’s trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP’s grip on working-class voters.

Trump calls Obama "grossly incompetent" after the former president sharply criticized him

President Donald Trump ripped into former President Barack Obama hours after the Democrat blamed him for voters’ frustrations during two Saturday rallies.

In a Truth Social post shortly after midnight this morning, Trump called Obama a “grossly incompetent President.”

Trump also repeated previous criticisms of Obama, including claims that he “paid off Iran with billions and gave them a road to a Nuclear Weapon.”

Trump added that Obama, known affectionately by Democrats as the “closer-in-chief” for his ability to stir up voters just before an election, did not help Democrats win in previous elections. Obama worked to bring out the vote on behalf of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, with both Democrats losing in their presidential bid to him, Trump noted.

He predicted Obama’s efforts on behalf of Adbul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, would also fail.

“Now he’s campaigning for a Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist, who hates Jews and Blacks and AMERICANS and TRUMP, and he is going to lose,” Trump said about Obama in his post, repeating unfounded claims about El-Sayed.

Trump was in Perry, Georgia, Saturday evening campaigning for state Republicans including Rep. Mike Collins for Senate and businessman Rick Jackson for governor.

Obama was in Detroit campaigning for El-Sayed along with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic nominee for Michigan governor.

Obama appeared at another rally in Cleveland earlier on Saturday, working to rally voters around Democratic nominee for Ohio governor Amy Acton and former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is seeking to win back his old seat.

Midwest’s economic woes threaten to loosen GOP grip on working-class voters

Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump’s willingness to change the nation’s trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP’s grip on working-class voters.

A decade after the Trump era began, when he first turned Midwestern political battlegrounds into reliably Republican states, the fallout from policies of his second term have rippled through the agriculture sector and broader economies across the Great Plains and the Rust Belt.

In conversations across the region, voters point to the soaring cost of gas and diesel , as well as high grocery prices and interest rates. A whipsaw tariff policy has forced farmers to pay more for fertilizer, while some manufacturers, footing higher bills for imported components, have laid off workers. Trump’s decision to allow imported beef has infuriated ranchers. And spending cuts targeting healthcare and grant programs have caused further strain.

Promises to revitalize the nation’s manufacturing sector remain unfulfilled. And even before the Iran war sent costs soaring, several of these battleground states were in fiscal decline.

It has all fueled a hunger for change — and created an opening for Democratic candidates.

Polls suggest voters are willing to punish the Republicans in power in Washington, even though they also hold dim views of the Democratic brand.

These are some campaign events we're watching today

Nominees are racing to reach voters with just over a week left in the midterm election cycle.

Here are some events that are taking place today:

President Donald Trump will campaign in Port Huron, Michigan — one day after former President Barack Obama rallied against him in the state. Trump is stumping for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, who is up against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Sen. Bernie Sanders will rally with Rebecca Cooke, the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin’s 3rd District, and then later with El-Sayed in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Trump is participating in an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures program, which airs at 10 a.m. ET.

Stay with us as we bring you the latest through the day.

Recap: What Trump and Obama said during last night's dueling rallies

CNN's Arlette Saenz breaks down opposing rallies from President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama, as they travel across contentious states ahead of the midterms.

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama both held rallies on Saturday evening as they stumped for their parties’ candidates.

Here’s a recap of what they said:

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Speaking in Perry, Georgia, the president appeared to acknowledge the political headwinds Republicans face in the state.

GOP hurdles: Trump told supporters that GOP Rep. Mike Collins defeating Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff would be “somewhat of a shocker.” Republicans were bullish about flipping Ossoff’s seat, but Collins has trailed the incumbent in fundraising.

Midterm gift: In the latest announcement of a string of midterm gifts and pledges, Trump said that Audi will invest $4.2 billion in a “massive plant” in Macon. He said the factory would produce 200,000 cars per year and bring 30,000 jobs to the area.

On immigration: Trump also continued to denigrate Somali immigrants and mused why the US doesn’t take more people in from Nordic countries like Sweden or Norway.

Former President Barack Obama expressed astonishment as he condemned President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada during a rally in support of Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday.

The former president held a campaign event in Detroit with Abdul El-Sayed and other Michigan Democrats. Obama, who earlier held a rally in Cleveland, is reprising his role of Democratic closer on the campaign trail.

Criticism of Trump: Obama blasted the president for years of “chaos, and cruelty, and corruption” under Trump’s administration. His remarks parallel his comments earlier in the afternoon in Ohio, where he described the second Trump administration as two years of “incompetence.”

On Canada tariffs: Obama also condemned Trump’s tariffs on Canada. “He’s the toughest when it comes to tariffs and trade wars on that well-known evil empire, Canada,” Obama quipped. “These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup.”

“We have seen this movie before” : Obama said he can relate to the struggles Michigan Senate nominee El-Sayed faces over Republican attacks on his name. Trump previously promoted the false conspiracy that claimed Obama was not born in the US. Trump has wrongly referred to El-Sayed as “Mohammed” and falsely declared that the Democratic candidate is a “jihadist.”

CNN’s Logan Schiciano, Molly English, Katherine Koretski and Aleena Fayaz contributed to this post.

今天在竞选路上

• 特朗普在密歇根州：唐纳德·特朗普总统前往密歇根州休伦港，为共和党参议员候选人迈克·罗杰斯助选。此前一天，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在该州集会民主党人，并对其政府进行了猛烈抨击。

• 竞争激烈的参议院选举：特朗普很可能猛烈抨击罗杰斯的民主党对手阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，共和党人一直试图将他与伊斯兰极端主义联系起来。埃尔-赛义德为自己辩护，反驳针对其穆斯林信仰的攻击，同时也在努力应对可能面临的非裔选民挑战。

• 中西部战场：距离大选周期结束还有九天，中西部地区是共和党担忧能否保住众议院和参议院控制权的重要原因。高昂的竞选成本引发的愤怒以及对特朗普改变国家发展方向意愿的质疑，都可能削弱共和党对工薪阶层选民的支持。

在奥巴马严厉批评他之后，特朗普称奥巴马“极其无能”。

在民主党候选人巴拉克·奥巴马周六的两场竞选集会上指责他导致选民失望后几个小时，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普猛烈抨击了这位前总统。

今天凌晨刚过午夜，特朗普在 Truth Social 上发帖称奥巴马是“极其无能的总统”。

特朗普还重申了之前对奥巴马的批评，包括声称他“用数十亿美元收买伊朗，并为他们铺就了一条通往核武器的道路”。

特朗普补充说，奥巴马因其在选举前动员选民的能力而被民主党人亲切地称为“首席终结者”，但他并没有帮助民主党在之前的选举中获胜。特朗普指出，奥巴马曾在2016年为希拉里·克林顿和2024年为前副总统卡马拉·哈里斯拉票，但这两位民主党候选人最终都在总统竞选中败给了奥巴马。

他预测奥巴马为密歇根州民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德所做的努力也会失败。

“现在他为一名穆斯林兄弟会圣战分子助选，此人仇恨犹太人、黑人、美国人和特朗普，他必败无疑，”特朗普在帖子中谈到奥巴马时说道，并重复了关于埃尔-赛义德的毫无根据的说法。

周六晚上，特朗普在佐治亚州佩里市为该州共和党人助选，其中包括参议员候选人迈克·柯林斯和州长候选人里克·杰克逊。

奥巴马当时在底特律为埃尔-赛义德助选，与他同行的还有密歇根州州务卿乔斯林·本森，她是密歇根州州长的民主党候选人。

周六早些时候，奥巴马在克利夫兰参加了另一场集会，努力争取选民支持俄亥俄州州长民主党候选人艾米·阿克顿和前参议员谢罗德·布朗，后者正寻求赢回他以前的席位。

中西部地区的经济困境有可能削弱共和党对工薪阶层选民的控制。

由于民众对高昂的医疗成本感到愤怒，并且对唐纳德·特朗普总统改变国家发展方向的意愿表示怀疑，这有可能削弱共和党对工薪阶层选民的控制，民主党人或许有望在中西部地区迎来复兴。

在特朗普时代开始十年后，他首次将中西部政治战场变成了共和党的铁票仓，而他第二个任期的政策所带来的影响已经波及到大平原和铁锈地带的农业部门和更广泛的经济领域。

在整个地区的对话中，选民们纷纷指出汽油和柴油价格飙升，以及食品杂货价格和利率高企。反复无常的关税政策迫使农民支付更高的化肥价格，而一些制造商由于进口零部件成本上涨，不得不裁员。特朗普允许进口牛肉的决定激怒了牧场主。此外，针对医疗保健和补助项目的支出削减也加剧了经济压力。

振兴国家制造业的承诺仍未兑现。而且，甚至在伊朗战争导致成本飙升之前，这些关键州中的几个就已经陷入财政衰退。

这一切都激发了人们对变革的渴望，并为民主党候选人创造了机会。

民调显示，选民们愿意惩罚华盛顿执政的共和党人，尽管他们对民主党也抱有负面看法。

以下是我们今天关注的一些竞选活动。

距离中期选举周期结束仅剩一周多时间，各候选人都在争分夺秒地争取选民支持。

以下是今天发生的一些事件：

唐纳德·特朗普总统将在密歇根州休伦港举行竞选活动——就在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在该州举行反对他的集会一天后。特朗普此行是为了支持共和党参议员候选人迈克·罗杰斯，罗杰斯将与民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德展开角逐。

参议员伯尼·桑德斯将与威斯康星州第三选区的民主党候选人丽贝卡·库克一起举行集会，之后将在密歇根州大急流城与埃尔-赛义德一起举行集会。

特朗普正在接受福克斯新闻周日早间展望节目的采访，该节目将于美国东部时间上午 10 点播出。

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回顾：特朗普和奥巴马昨晚在针锋相对的竞选集会上说了些什么

CNN 的 Arlette Saenz 分析了唐纳德·特朗普总统和前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在中期选举前夕，在各竞争激烈的州举行的针锋相对的竞选集会。

周六晚上，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和前总统巴拉克·奥巴马都举行了竞选集会，为各自党派的候选人造势。

以下是他们发言的概要：

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总统在佐治亚州佩里发表讲话时，似乎承认了共和党在该州面临的政治逆风。

共和党面临重重阻碍：特朗普告诉支持者，共和党众议员迈克·柯林斯击败民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫将“令人颇感意外”。共和党人对拿下奥索夫的席位充满信心，但柯林斯在筹款方面一直落后于现任议员。

中期选举捐赠：在最新公布的一系列中期选举捐赠和承诺中，特朗普表示奥迪将在梅肯投资42亿美元兴建一座“大型工厂”。他称该工厂每年将生产20万辆汽车，并为当地带来3万个就业岗位。

关于移民问题：特朗普还继续贬低索马里移民，并质疑为什么美国不接收更多来自瑞典或挪威等北欧国家的人。

周六，在密歇根州底特律举行的支持密歇根州民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的集会上，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马谴责了唐纳德·特朗普总统对加拿大征收关税，并对此表示震惊。

这位前总统在底特律与阿卜杜勒·埃尔·赛义德和其他密歇根州民主党人举行了一场竞选活动。此前在克利夫兰举行过集会的奥巴马，再次扮演了民主党竞选收官者的角色。

对特朗普的批评：奥巴马猛烈抨击特朗普执政多年来“混乱、残暴和腐败”。他的这番言论与当天下午早些时候在俄亥俄州的表态如出一辙，当时他将特朗普的第二个任期描述为两年的“无能”。

关于加拿大关税：奥巴马也谴责了特朗普对加拿大征收的关税。“说到对加拿大这个臭名昭著的邪恶帝国征收关税和打贸易战，他可是最强硬的，”奥巴马打趣道。“可是正是这些人给了我们马丁·肖特和枫糖浆。”

“我们以前就见过这种场面”：奥巴马表示，他能理解密歇根州参议员候选人埃尔-赛义德因共和党人攻击其姓名而面临的困境。特朗普此前曾散布奥巴马并非出生于美国的虚假阴谋论。特朗普还错误地将埃尔-赛义德称为“穆罕默德”，并谎称这位民主党候选人是“圣战分子”。

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