Former President Donald J. Trump has scheduled his first campaign rally since surviving an assassination attempt last weekend in Pennsylvania for Saturday in the swing state of Michigan. It will also be his first rally appearance with Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio since naming him as his running mate.
They will visit Grand Rapids, Mich., for a rally early Saturday evening. Mr. Trump picked Mr. Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a best-selling memoir about his troubled upbringing and the struggles and pathologies of the white working class, on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention.
Mr. Vance, who went from being a Never Trumper to a top surrogate for Mr. Trump, edged out his colleague, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, and Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota to join the ticket.
Pete Hoekstra, Michigan’s Republican Party chairman, said that he expected that Mr. Vance would be particularly helpful to Mr. Trump in Midwest swing states.
“He’ll understand the auto industry,” Mr. Hoekstra said in an interview on Monday. “He’ll understand manufacturing, Great Lakes issues and all of these kind of things.”
This election cycle, Mr. Trump has frequently visited Michigan, a state that helped propel him to the presidency in 2016. He lost to Joseph R. Biden Jr. there in 2020.
Mr. Trump plans to formally accept the Republican nomination at the convention on Thursday night in Milwaukee.
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