Vice President Mike Pence visiting Oakland County Tuesday – The Oakland Press

The Vice President will be in town on Tuesday.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Troy to host a Keep America Great rally at theDetroit Marriott Troy, 200 W. Big Beaver Rd. Doors open to the general public at 3 p.m., and close at 4:30 p.m., for the 5 p.m. event.

The Oakland County stop is part of a two-stop Michigan bus tour that begins with a visit to Lansing Tuesday morning. While there, Pence will deliver remarks at the annual Michigan Farm Bureau Lansing Legislative Seminar, which is attended by stakeholders, farmers, and legislative leadersto discuss policy and issues affecting agriculture and

Pence's visit comes two weeks before the state's presidential primary on Tuesday,March 10, and with early-voting in full-swing. He's visited Michigan multiple times during the current election cycle including stops in Saginaw, Portage, and Holland in December.

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Although President Trump won Michigan in 2016 by a 10,704-vote margin, he's currently trailing all of the Democratic presidential candidates inhead-to-head general electionmatchups, according to a battleground statepoll conducted by The University of Wisconsin-Madison Feb. 11-20.Sen. Bernie Sanders has the largest lead (seven-percentage points).

In 2016, Oakland County voters chose Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Trump by eight percentage points or a 53,867-vote margin,according to theOakland County Elections Division. Although Sanders defeated Clinton during Michigan's March primary, he lost to Clinton in Oakland County by nearly 8,000 votes.

Election Day is still six weeks away, but many Michigan voters are getting a head start on casting their ballots.

In January, Trump held a rally in Warren at Dana Manufacturing Inc., an automotive supplier, one day following his signing of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA). It was the president's second visit to Michigan in a six-week span after holding a re-election Christmas rally in Battle Creek in December.

Since 2017, Pence has visited Michigan 12 times, including five stops in Oakland County (Bloomfield Hills, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Rochester, and Waterford Township). Trump has visited the Great Lakes State five times since taking office (Ypsilanti, Washington Township, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, and Warren).

President Donald Trump was greeted by a friendly crowd at the Dana Inc. plant in Warren Thursday to talk about a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that he feels will present a "whole different ballgame" in terms of manufacturing.

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