"They cheat like hell, these people": Trump airs 2020 grievances in Michigan, weeks before midterm elections

Warren, Mich. — For the first seven minutes of his Michigan rally Saturday, former President Donald Trump stuck to two familiar issues Republicans are running on this November: inflation and the rising cost of living under President Biden, and immigration and the southern border.  Then, he turned to a topic that's been occupying him since November 2020: that the presidential election had been "stolen" from him.  He claimed John James, now a congressional candidate for Michigan's 10th District, had won his last race for U.S. Senate in 2020. He did not. James lost to Sen. Gary Peters by over 92,000 votes. Trump accused Democrats of obliterating "election integrity." He said America is a "third world country" because of how ballots are counted, and he praised France for using paper ballots. Trump did not acknowledge a Michigan investigation led by a panel of state Republicans that found no evidence of widespread fraud. And then he urged the crowd crammed into the arena in Macomb County, w