Donald Trump urged Michigan women to get their ‘fat’ husbands off the couch – even if it means slapping them – and out to vote for him.
The Republican nominee addressed crowds at a rally in Detroit on Friday, where early voting is already underway.
Trump, 78, also referred to the women’s husbands as ‘fat pigs’ as he encouraged them to hit the polls. Early voting begins across Michigan on October 26.
‘Get everyone you know and go out and vote,’ Trump said. ‘Go tomorrow. It’s just starting. Go and vote.
‘Make sure you vote and bring all our friends that want to vote for us. Tell them, ‘Jill. Get your fat husband off the couch. Get that – get that fat pig off the couch. Tell him to go and vote for Trump.
‘He’s going to save our country. Get that guy the hell off our… Get him up, Jill. Slap him around. Get him up! Get him up, Jill. We want him off the couch to get out and vote.’
Trump’s appeal to women comes amid news he is trailing behind Kamala Harris when it comes to support among the demographic.
A New York Times/Siena College poll taken earlier this month found that 56 percent of likely women voters back Harris, compared to 40 percent for Trump.
Support for Trump among black women was even slimmer, at just 12 percent compared to 83 percent for Harris.
Female concertgoers at Usher’s tour-opening show in Atlanta explained why they will be backing Harris. The star is due to appear with the vice president at a rally in the city on Saturday.
Channal Gross-Anderson said she was eager to vote for a Black woman. ‘She´s passionate about female rights and not just the welfare of the rich or the wealthy, but for everyone,’ Gross-Anderson said.
Others, such as Cassandra Johnson, were not enthusiastic about either candidate. Johnson said she will vote for Harris even though she has reservations about her past as a California prosecutor.
‘We got four years with Trump already, and I kind of see how that went, and I didn´t particularly enjoy it,’ Johnson said. ‘And I definitely didn´t enjoy our rights being taken away as women.’
Ashlan Hawkins is concerned about reproductive rights in the wake of recent deaths in Georgia tied to abortion restrictions.
‘For that reason alone, I will vote for Kamala,’ Hawkins said.
Trump’s rally came after a campaign event in Oakland County Friday afternoon.
The Republican former president opened a roundtable event by praising Teamsters President Sean O´Brien as ‘a great guy.’
O´Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention and his union declined to endorse Harris, which was viewed as a victory for Trump given the union’s past support for Democrats.
‘I think it´s been many decades before they endorsed a Republican. I think they´ll start very soon,’ Trump said Friday, adding that he has the support of ‘rank and file Teamsters all over the country.’
Meanwhile, Harris staged her own event in Grand Rapids where she told the crowds Trump has ‘no plan’ to protect the American people.
She added that she would ‘stand up for all Americans.’ The crowd reacted by shouting ‘concepts of a plan,’ a reference to a remark Trump made during his debate with Harris.
The vice president took up the phrase, repeating it back to the crowd a few times with a laugh while making quotation marks with her hands.
She also said she’s witnessed ‘a full-on assault’ of American freedoms, saying that ‘so much is on the line in this election.’
Wrapping the event, Harris implored the crowd to make a plan to vote. Early voting begins Saturday in Detroit.
‘Don´t ever let anybody take your power,’ she said.
