Democrat Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says Lions are going to Super Bowl 'without Trump's help'

Democrat Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is calling his shot. 

The city's politician for the past 10 years declared successful a station connected X connected Thursday that the Detroit Lions volition beryllium successful the upcoming Super Bowl successful a station lauding the city's caller sports occurrence portion discrediting the interaction that erstwhile President Trump had connected affirmative developments for his citizens. 

"Detroit conscionable hosted the largest NFL Draft successful history, the Tigers are backmost successful the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, transgression is down and our colonisation is growing. Lots of cities should beryllium similar Detroit. And we did it each without Trump’s help," Duggan wrote. 

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Detroit (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket)

Trump was successful Detroit connected Thursday to present remarks to the Detroit Economic Club. There, the erstwhile president made comments that came disconnected arsenic captious of the metropolis portion informing of the consequences of a Harris presidency.

"The full state volition beryllium similar — you privation to cognize the truth? It’ll beryllium similar Detroit," the Republican statesmanlike nominee said. "Our full state volition extremity up being similar Detroit if she’s your president."

However, Trump besides complimented the metropolis erstwhile comparing it to China. 

"Well, we’re a processing federation too. Just instrumentality a look astatine Detroit. Detroit’s a processing country much than astir places successful China," helium said.

Dugan, a 66-year-old lifelong Michigan resident, has made the Lions a transportation for the city's occurrence aft past season's tally to the NFC Championship Game and a part title. The franchise broke attendance and summons income records past twelvemonth amid a historical playoff tally for a squad that lone made the playoffs 4 times successful the 20th century.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during the archetypal circular of the NFL Draft, April 25, 2024, successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

When Detroit hosted the NFL Draft this past spring, Dugan said "this has been peculiar successful the mode Detroit is being seen astir the country," helium said, adding that it had been "game-changing for the city" successful presumption of attracting young radical to unrecorded successful Detroit oregon businesses to find there, per the Detroit News. This year's draught successful Detroit broke the league's attendance grounds for a azygous lawsuit with much than 700,000 fans. 

The Lions came wrong a historical illness of making the Super Bowl past play aft taking a 24-7 pb astatine halftime of the NFC Championship Game.

But now, Duggan has made the bold proclamation that the Lions volition get to the Super Bowl this year, which would people the archetypal successful its history. Curiously, helium has done this portion tying successful a enactment discrediting Trump little than a period earlier a statesmanlike predetermination successful which Michigan volition beryllium 1 of the decisive battleground states.

Trump won Michigan successful his 2016 victory, becoming the archetypal Republican statesmanlike campaigner to transportation the authorities since 1988. But the authorities swung backmost to the Democrat broadside successful 2020 erstwhile it elected Joe Biden.

However, Trump has polled amended successful Michigan during the existent predetermination rhythm than helium had successful either of his past 2 bids for the White House. This has overmuch to bash with blue-collar and working-class voters, who person historically comprised Detroit's automotive manufacturing industry.

An interior canvass conducted by the Teamsters, 1 of the country’s largest and astir influential unions, recovered that members successful Michigan preferred Trump (61.7%) implicit his Democrat opponent, Vice President Harris (35.2%), portion nationalist national leaders declined to marque an endorsement successful this year’s statesmanlike contention contempt supporting Biden’s run successful 2020.

Republicans successful Michigan are attempting to capitalize connected Harris’ struggles with blue-collar voters successful the state, a demographic that has traditionally supported Democrats but has been trending successful Trump's direction.

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"Michigan's moving people isn't fooled by Kamala Harris' connection salads and canine and pony shows. Her policies, similar the extremist Green New Deal, are anti-worker," Team Trump Michigan communications manager Victoria LaCivita told Fox News Digital. "Her onslaught connected American vigor has made the outgo of surviving unaffordable, and her program to prohibition gas-powered cars volition decimate the backbone of our economy."

According to a study successful the Wall Street Journal connected Tuesday, salient Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, person advised the Harris run to summation its absorption connected the authorities arsenic the predetermination draws to a close. They person besides warned Harris to sharpen her economical messaging arsenic Trump has done good to tribunal the state’s working-class voters.

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