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Line to see President Trump in Grand Rapids stretches for blocks

President Donald Trump was in Michigan Thursday. People were lined up for blocks in downtown Grand Rapids to see Trump speak.

That includes Mark Aben. He works in construction and says Trump is the greatest president ever. Aben says he hopes Trump uses the rally to bring people together.

 

 
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“Let’s just talk about bringing the country back together. Let’s not be so divided. Doesn’t matter what you are. Let’s just be great, let’s be America. Let’s not be Republican, let’s not be Democrat, let’s not be Independent, let’s just be Americans.”

Saundra Kiczenski has been to more than 20 Trump rallies in multiple states. She says that the investigation was a “witch hunt.”

 

 
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“I get so tired of this…I don’t even – I haven’t even been following it anymore I just turn the television off. It’s the same thing day after day on every channel it’s just like, whatever.”

Michigan was a key state in securing Trump’s victory in 20-16. This will be his first re-election rally since special counsel Robert Mueller finished his investigation into the presidential campaign’s potential ties to Russia.