Trump accused of deliberately choosing ‘sundown’ towns with racist histories for his rallies

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign accused the former president of deliberately campaining in the former “KKK capital of Michigan.” Trump’s campaign has denied the accusations. The former president’s event at the sheriff’s office on August 20 wasn’t just “a dog whistle from Trump,” according to a statement from Harris campaign spokesperson Alyssa Bradley. “This is where Donald Trump is choosing to hold his rallies,” said a TikTok user whose video linking the former president’s “troubling pattern” of campaign rally sites to “sundown” histories has been shared widely across social media. open image in gallery Donald Trump appears at a campaign event in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, among several recent campaign stops in midwestern towns with reputations as former ‘sundown’ towns Today, the town of Howell “is a different place than it was when I was growing up in Michigan,” said Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, whose district encompasses Livingston County.