Singer Lizzo responded on Saturday to an insult made by former President Donald Trump about how his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris would make the whole country "like Detroit."
While speaking to the Detroit Economic Club on October 10, the Republican nominee warned guests about a possible Harris administration, "The whole country is going to be like, you want to know the truth? It'll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president. You're going to have a mess on your hands."
The hitmaker seemingly responded to the jab against her beloved city during an appearance at a Harris campaign event in Detroit on Saturday, "I'm so proud to be from this city. You know, they say if Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit. Ok. Proud like Detroit! Resilient like Detroit! We're talking about the same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry, so put some respect on Detroit's name!"
"If you ask me if America's ready for its first woman president? I only got one thing to say, it's about damn time!" Lizzo added, referencing her 2022 hit song "About Damn Time."
When reached for comment by Newsweek, Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, said via email late Saturday afternoon, "Who's Lizzo?"
.@lizzo: I'm so proud to be from Detroit. They say if Kamala Harris wins, the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on Detroit's name pic.twitter.com/fSWMGCW0uH
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 19, 2024Harris previously responded to Trump's Detroit remarks on the campaign trail in Las Vegas.
"My opponent, Donald Trump, yet again has trashed another great American city when he was in Detroit, which is just a further piece of evidence on a very long list of why he is unfit to be president of the United States," she said on October 10.
Trump visited Detroit Friday night where he called Detroit a "beautiful city" and blamed Harris and Democrats for "wreaking havoc" on it.
"Your beautiful place, your beautiful city" was "decimated as if by a foreign army," he said at a campaign rally. "I will put Detroit first. I will put Michigan first. I will put America first."
Over 1 million people in Michigan have already voted by mail in the November 5 election. Michigan is one of a few key swing states needed to win this election.
Harris and Trump are running neck and neck in Michigan. The vice president has a slight lead of less than a percentage point, with 47.6 percent compared with Trump's 47.1 percent, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight's polling averages for the state.
The vice president's lead over Trump has grown on the national stage, according to some polling. She is 2.1 points ahead of the former president in the national polls (48.4 to 46.3 percent), FiveThirtyEight says.
Harris encouraged rallygoers in Detroit on Saturday to vote early.
"We are going to break some records here in Detroit today. We are going to do this because we know what is at stake, and we know the power of the people," she said.
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