GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – This city is peak nostalgia for fans of former President Donald Trump. It’s where he held his closing campaign events in 2016 and 2020. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff arrived in Grand Rapids Sunday to convince Republicans that Trump is not the same guy he was at those rallies.
“You look at him now, he’s falling apart physically and falling apart mentally,” Emhoff said at the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation. “You just see it. Right now, he’s a much worse version of what he was before.”
Democrats have several closing arguments as this campaign cycle comes to an end, and new among them is that Trump is in decline, too tired and old to be effective. It’s reminiscent of the very attacks that ultimately knocked out President Joe Biden’s campaign over the course of a month this summer. Except in Trump’s case, the idea is only really taking hold weeks from Election Day.