DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – President Joe Biden visited Michigan on Thursday after spending the morning at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. 

Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist gathered on the runway to help welcome the President to Michigan. 

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The visit comes shortly after he was given the endorsement from the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. 

“This November, we can stand up and elect someone who wants to stand with us and support our cause,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “Or we can elect someone who will divide us and fight us every step of the way.”

Protests emerged in Warren. 

Before the President’s remarks, roughly 200 protesters gathered in Warren expressing their pro-Palestine sentiments and opposition to President Biden according to the Detroit News. 

 

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Other Michiganders express opposition to Biden’s re-election.

The Michigan Freedom Fund, a group supporting government oversight and constitutional principles, also shared its thoughts on the President in an email to the media. 

“Liberal political elites like Joe Biden can keep telling themselves the lie that EVs are good for Michigan workers, but won’t change the fact that thousands of jobs have already been lost and millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on this government-engineered gambit,” the group said in a statement. 

Arab-Americans protested Biden’s scheduled visit Wednesday night in Dearborn.

“We are not interested in conversations with this campaign and this administration,” said Dearborn attorney Amer Zahr, a Palestinian American activist who helped organize the rally at Fordson High according to Detroit Free Press. “They have to call for a ceasefire. He could make a phone call tomorrow and put an end to all this. He has chosen not to. … President Biden, we say quite clearly: you are not welcome in our community.”

During the hour and a half rally in Fordson High, according to the Detroit Free Press, the crowd chanted: “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” “Genocide Joe” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Dearborn Mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, expressed why he and others declined meeting with President Biden’s campaign manager during his Friday visit. 

A Michigan lawmaker weighs in.

“This is not the time to talk about elections,” he said. “This is the time to ask and demand for an immediate ceasefire.

State Representative Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) shared his perspective on the matter. 

“Right now is a time for us to hold them accountable to the promises they made in 2020, when they said the Arab-American community, the Muslim American community, will have a seat at the table,” he said. “And we don’t have that seat right now.”