Demonstrators both for and against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gathered along a highway near the Flint water plant Wednesday. Trump is scheduled to tour the plant as part of a quick visit to Flint.
Robert Owens lives in a Flint suburb. He waved a Trump sign at passing cars and trucks and says Trump is the person to fix Flint and other struggling cities.
“Everything he stands for – making America great again. These people are yelling they want Flint water better. Why not vote for someone who can do that?” he asked.
Leslie Wilson was wearing a “Flint Lives Matter” t-shirt and wore a string of empty plastic water bottles around her waist. She doesn’t think Trump really cares about the city’s water crisis, or helping Flint.
“Sixty days before the election, he’s obviously just trying to get a little publicity stunt, so he can get an extra couple of followers, an extra couple of people to vote for him. That’s all it is,” she said.
The pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators got into heated arguments at times. The Trump critics said the visit is just a campaign stunt with less than two months to go before the election. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton traveled to Flint in February.
