Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick disavows Dems and identity politics: I want Trump in the room
DETROIT — The voice of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now fills Michigan’s airwaves, praising the man who freed him from prison: former President Donald Trump.The one-minute spot, paid for by the Michigan GOP, draws from Kilpatrick’s August speech to the Oakland County Republican Party.At its Lincoln Day Dinner, the same week as the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kilpatrick forsook the party that made him a political rising star — until he resigned in 2008 under a cloud of corruption charges — and praised the Republican nominee.“I had to challenge everything that I used to expound,” Kilpatrick says in the ad.
“I had to challenge my stance on abortion.I had to challenge my stance on all the different morality issues that are in the world today.
I had to challenge my stance on identity politics.”But Mario Morrow, a Detroit-based political consultant, doesn’t see a changed man.He sees a man in a changed circumstance.“He is doing everything in his power to get in good with Donald Trump and banking on the fact that Trump will become victorious in November and give him a redemption job,” Morrow told The Post.“And if Donald Trump loses, he’s still going to be looking for the GOP, MAGA loyalists to bail him out and reward him financially with a job or speaking engagements,” Morrow added.
“He’s doing whatever he can do to secure his future with those people who he thinks can do it for him.And this has nothing to do with God.”Morrow is referring to Kilpatrick’s mentions of the divine in the new ad: “I stopped thinking about people in terms of what party they’re in or what city they’re from or what race they are, and I started to understand that God wants me to do in the government what He desires for us.” The ex-mayor goes on to raise the stakes, arguing Trump can be a safeguard against devastation and ruin.
“This election is about the survival of our nation.It’s about the survival of our children.
It’s a...