Trump tells Michigan rally-goers their state will again 'respond to the call of history,' vote red

During his first campaign stop of the day in Lansing, Michigan, President Trump addressed a supportive crowd Tuesday in the cold and rain, vying to once again break the Blue Wall and win the state's 16 electoral college votes.

He began the rally by touting last night's swearing in of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett, before quickly transitioning to hitting at his 2020 presidential opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and running-mate Sen. Kamala Harris.

Speaking about Harris, he cited her status as the most liberal member of the Senate, according to some. 

"She makes Bernie Sanders look like a serious conservative ... . She will not be the first woman president," said the president to cheers from the crowd, which then began chanting "Ivanka," suggesting that the president's eldest daughter could perhaps be the woman to hold the high office.

Trump then said that should the Biden-Harris ticket get elected, within three weeks of the inauguration, Biden would somehow be removed and replaced with Harris as president.

"That's why they're looking into the 25th amendment," Trump said about House Democrats's looking into how to remove a president. 

He then told the crowd that it was time to send their children back to school, citing his son Barron's very quick and painless bout with the novel coronavirus a few weeks ago. 

Meanwhile, getting back on the campaign trail in Georgia on Tuesday, Biden gave an impassioned speech in a typically Red state that Democrats think may go Blue next week. 

Speaking in the tiny town of Warm Springs, once the home of President Franklin Roosevelt's private retreat, Biden delivered a bipartisan message. 

“Too many among us spend more time shouting than listening, more time fighting than working together, more time demonizing and denigrating others, rather than lifting them up,” he said.

“Has the heart of this nation turned to stone? I don’t think so. I don’t believe it," Trump said. 

Though Republicans have won Georgia in every presidential election since 1996, the polls are close, currently showing Biden and Trump tied at 47% each. 

Countering Biden's event, Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, hosted a "MAGA Meet Up" on Monday morning, in Manchester, Georgia, about five minutes from Warm Springs. Biden will host a second event in Atlanta early this evening.

With exactly one week remaining before Election Day, Trump and Biden are each holding multiple rallies Tuesday in key states – hoping to connect with the country's few remaining undecided voters.

Trump is looking to to win again in states in which he pulled off upsets in 2016.

Biden, who, according to the RealClearPolitics's national polls average, leads Trump by 7.3 percentage points nationally, will later this week blitz battleground states, stopping in Florida on Thursday, then Iowa and Wisconsin on Friday. 

The candidates will be competing for what appear to be the few remaining voters, considering an estimated 62 million-plus have already cast ballots – more than in all of 2016 with seven days left before Election Day.

Biden, like 2016 Democratic presidential Hillary Clinton, is keeping a lighter campaign schedule than Trump.

Since last Thursday's debate, Biden has visited Pennsylvania twice but held no campaign events on Friday or Sunday.

On Monday, Biden made a brief, unscheduled stop to a voting station in southeast Pennsylvania, across the border from his home in Wilmington, Del.

"So he traveled from Delaware to a little tiny corner of Pennsylvania, like right next to Delaware and he made a speech and he said that he doesn’t do these kind of rallies because of Covid," Trump said at a rally Monday in Pennsylvania. "He doesn’t do them because nobody shows up."

Trump on Tuesday will hold three rallies, including one in Michigan and one in Wisconsin, so-called Blue Wall states because their many blue-collar union workers have historically backed Democratic presidential candidates. Trump narrowly won both in 2016. 

The president began his day in Lansing  at the Capital Region International Airport.

Departing from Joint Base Andrews alongside first lady Melania Trump, who is headed to Pennsylvania to give a speech, the president said he is looking forward to a full day of campaigning. 

"Our real poll numbers are phenomenal, not the fake poll numbers that the media gives," he said. 

After Michigan, Trump goes to West Salem, Wis., and finishes the day in Omaha, Neb., where he will deliver remarks at the Eppley Airfield. 

In 2016, the president won Michigan and its 16 electoral votes from Clinton by 0.3%. He won Wisconsin, a state that Clinton notoriously failed to visit during her general election campaign, by 0.77%. 

Trump won Nebraska handily, and is expected to again. 

Vice President Mike Pence will campaign in North and South Carolina. On Wednesday, he'll go to Wisconsin, holding a rally at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee. 

Biden running-mate Sen. Kamala Harris on Tuesday will campaign in Reno, Nevada. The California senator is also expected to stop in Las Vegas.