TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump ran hours late to a rally in Michigan Friday, causing thousands of his supporters to leave while others huddled in cold weather to await the former president at an outdoor rally in the battleground state. The Republican presidential nominee was delayed for an interview with Joe Rogan, the nation’s most listened-to podcaster , that stretched to three hours in Austin, Texas.
Trump is aggressively courting younger male voters with whom Rogan is widely popular. The interview was released Friday night. Democrat Kamala Harris was also in Texas Friday for an appearance with superstar Beyoncé in Houston at an event highlighting the conservative state's abortion ban enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade. Three of the justices who voted to overturn Roe were nominated by Trump. Minutes before Trump's Michigan rally was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.
m. Eastern, his spokesman posted on the social media platform X that Trump was just leaving Texas, more than two hours away by air. Trump recorded a video from his plane urging his supporters to stay, noting it was Friday night and promising, “We’re going to have a good time tonight.
” Trump was slated to speak at the Traverse City airport, where temperatures dipped into the low 50s Fahrenheit (above 10 degrees Celsius) after dark. Attendees who hadn't left bundled up, some covered by blankets, as they waited for him to land. The crowd sounded and looked disengaged as North D.
