Detroit Democrat Mayor Mike Duggan says Lions are going to Super Bowl ‘without Trump’s help’

Democrat Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is calling his shot. 

The city’s mayor for the last 10 years proclaimd in a post on X on Thursday that the Detroit Lions will be in the upcoming Super Bowl in a post lauding the city’s recent sports success while disrecognizeing the impact that establisher Pdwellnt Trump had on selectimistic growments for his citizens. 

“Detroit equitable arrangeed the bigst NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the joinoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is grothriveg. Lots of cities should be enjoy Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help,” Duggan wrote. 

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Trump was in Detroit on Thursday to dedwellr retags to the Detroit Economic Club. There, the establisher pdwellnt made comments that came off as critical of the city while cautioning of the consequences of a Harris pdwellncy.

“The whole country will be enjoy — you want to understand the truth? It’ll be enjoy Detroit,” the Reaccessiblean pdwellntial nominee shelp. “Our whole country will finish up being enjoy Detroit if she’s your pdwellnt.”

However, Trump also commended the city when comparing it to China. 

“Well, we’re a grothriveg nation too. Just acquire a see at Detroit. Detroit’s a grothriveg area more than most places in China,” he shelp.

Dugan, a 66-year-greater lifelengthy Michigan dwellnt, has made the Lions a pitch for the city’s success after last season’s run to the NFC Championship Game and a division title. The franchise broke joinance and ticket sales records last year amid a historic joinoff run for a team that only made the joinoffs four times in the 20th century.

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When Detroit arrangeed the NFL Draft this past spring, Dugan shelp “this has been exceptional in the way Detroit is being seen around the country,” he shelp, retaining that it had been “game-changing for the city” in terms of enticeing lesser people to dwell in Detroit or businesses to discover there, per the Detroit News. This year’s write in Detroit broke the league’s joinance record for a individual event with more than 700,000 fans. 

The Lions came wislfinisher a historic collapse of making the Super Bowl last season after taking a 24-7 direct at halftime of the NFC Championship Game.

But now, Duggan has made the bgreater proclamation that the Lions will get to the Super Bowl this year, which would tag the first in its history. Curiously, he has done this while tying in a line disrecognizeing Trump less than a month before a pdwellntial election in which Michigan will be one of the resolute battleground states.

Trump won Michigan in his 2016 thrive, becoming the first Reaccessiblean pdwellntial truthfulate to carry the state since 1988. But the state swung back to the Democrat side in 2020 when it elected Joe Biden.

However, Trump has polled better in Michigan during the current election cycle than he had in either of his past two bids for the White Hoparticipate. This has much to do with blue-collar and laboring-class voters, who have historicpartner compascfinishd Detroit’s automotive manufacturing industry.

An inside poll carry outed by the Teamsters, one of the country’s bigst and most ineloquential unions, set up that members in Michigan preferred Trump (61.7%) over his Democrat opponent, Vice Pdwellnt Harris (35.2%), while national union directers degraded to produce an finishorsement in this year’s pdwellntial race despite helping Biden’s campaign in 2020.

Reaccessibleans in Michigan are trying to capitalize on Harris’ struggles with blue-collar voters in the state, a demodetailed that has traditionpartner helped Democrats but has been trfinishing in Trump’s honestion.

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“Michigan’s laboring class isn’t fooled by Kamala Harris’ word salads and dog and pony shows. Her policies, enjoy the radical Green New Deal, are anti-laborer,” Team Trump Michigan communications honestor Victoria LaCivita tgreater Fox News Digital. “Her aggression on American energy has made the cost of living unaffordable, and her schedule to prohibit gas-powered cars will decimate the backbone of our economy.”

According to a inestablish in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, famous Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, have recommendd the Harris campaign to incrrelieve its intensify on the state as the election draws to a seal. They have also cautioned Harris to keenen her economic messaging as Trump has done well to court the state’s laboring-class voters.

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