Eric Trump rallies the faithful at Wyandotte rally • Michigan Advance

In between campaign stops Trump's son Eric was in Michigan over the weekend by former President Donald Trump and visits were scheduled on Tuesday from the GOP vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), as he sought to energize the base with the election just one more week away.

He visited a fully occupied reception hall in the Downriver battlefield with several hundred enthusiastic supporters. Trump – whose wife Lara is co-chair of the Republican National Committee – was last in Michigan in June, when he spoke at a church for the ReAwaken America Tour led by Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn. At that event, Eric Trump defended his father, who had just been convicted of 34 felony counts in a hush-money case related to the 2016 election.

On Monday, Trump took up many of his father's campaign themes, which were often at odds with reality: an economy in shambles, mass voting by people in the country illegally and a justice system “rigged” against Donald Trump.

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“We're fighting to save something we love, and that's this beautiful flag right here,” Eric Trump said, pointing to the flag on the stage. “It is heavily targeted by corrupt, corrupt individuals. And we all know it.”

Monday's campaign event followed one Rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City Sunday was widely regarded as such insulted Latinos and African Americans and attacked the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, because of her race.

Trump tried to paint a different picture of the event, saying the sold-out crowd of about 20,000 supporters showed love for his father but also showed a deep dislike of Democrats.

“If you want to talk about ground zero for the war against my father, New York City, a city he built. We have thousands of employees in New York,” Trump said. “A lot of this city was based on Donald Trump, and yet we got there yesterday, despite all the legal wrangling, and you see the love and you realize it's not New York. It's not Chicago. There aren't many of these far-left places. We are not against them. It's really us versus… They're really bad people. Really bad people. Most of these people have never had a job in their lives. They go to Washington, DC and don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”

As his father had done for most of his years in the political spotlight, the younger Trump made an economic appeal based on what he said was an unfairly unbalanced trading system.

“Try sending a Harley Davidson to China. How come all of their boats that go from China to the United States actually have some water running over the sides of the boat because they are so damn heavy? And then when they go back to China, you can see the supports half sticking out of the water because they're so buoyant because there's nothing on them. And yet we can do things better than anyone else in the world. Nobody can compete with us. Nobody,” he said to thunderous applause and cheers.

Trump complained that the billions of dollars spent to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion had been wasted on people who “shoot each other in the face” and “don't even know what the hell they're fighting for.” .

“While there are abandoned factories here, while half the communities in this country have cell service that sucks, while our education system in the country is ranked 30th in the world. “What’s wrong with our priorities?” he said, then launched into an attack on electric vehicles, another key theme of his father’s campaign.

“Guys, they are destroying our auto industry and no one but my dad is talking about it. I mean, how can you punish a car company because consumers aren't buying their product because they're not buying it for some reason, and therefore you penalize a company? It doesn't make sense like that. But that’s exactly what you get with (President) Joe Biden,” he said, again referring to an imaginary government mandate that would ultimately only allow the production of electric vehicles.

While there is no mandate, the Biden administration has instead set voluntary targets for 50% of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030. Republicans, however, argue that new vehicle emissions standards issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would effectively ban gas-powered vehicles, Political experts told FactCheck.org that automakers would have flexibility in meeting the new standards and the option to make internal combustion engines more efficient.

Trump also pursued his father's penchant for conspiracy theories surrounding immigration, arguing that the Biden/Harris administration was intentionally allowing people into the country illegally for political reasons.

“They want them to vote and they want to change the census. Because it's not just the citizens who count in the US census. And that means they can pick up congressional seats, which means (Harris) has more opposition on the other side because they're only going to pick up congressional seats in very, very dark blue areas. And then they let anything that has any semblance of common sense pass. Right? “You will own a branch of government,” Trump said.