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PORT HURON, Michigan — President Donald Trump took his midterm campaign tour up to the border with Canada on Sunday afternoon for a rally backing former Rep. Mike Rogers and other downballot GOP candidates. Port Huron is located directly across the St. Claire River from Ottawa. Attendees packed out the McMorran Place Sports & Entertainment Center, which has a standard capacity of just under 5,000, but several longtime Republicans and Trump supporters still voiced concern about elevated gas prices and the president’s tariffs. Sue, a retiree from nearby Saint Claire, told the Washington Examiner that gas prices are, as of Sunday, 74 cents over the average for the area. Her neighbor, Scott, also retired, said that he supported the ongoing war in Iran but listed gas prices as a top three issue for him this cycle, alongside immigration and cross-border trade. Kim, who now works in ad sales at a local news station, told the Washington Examiner that at her previous job, managing a jewelry store, cross-border customers from Canada were a godsend. She added that, while she supports Trump and Rogers, she understands why affordability-focused rhetoric from Abdul el Sayed, the Democratic candidate, is resonating with voters. “He’s very well spoken,” she explained, noting that, during his own visit to Port Huron on Oct. 6, he wore jeans and seemed like someone she could “relate to.”
