Reports of the death of the Trump campaign look greatly exaggerated.  Check the photos  from his Friday afternoon (who goes to a political rally on a summer Friday afternoon?) rally in solidly Democrat mid-Michigan.  I've attended lots of events at this place and have never seen a crowd that large.

Undoubtedly, Trump was juiced.  You know he knew they'd hit it out of the park by touring the damage in Louisiana.  There couldn't have been a shortage of high-fives on Trump Force One on the flight to Lansing.  The standing room only audience, in a facility where Romney or Hillary would have trouble filling the lobby, had Mr. Trump juiced.  You could hear it in his voice.   

His speech was a new modified Trump, parts on teleprompter with facts and figures and details, then parts off the cuff – and from the heart.  "What the hell do you have to lose?" he intoned to black voters.

To them he spoke with a fact-filled bluntness heard only on conservative talk radio.  The Detroit News reported that his message hit home to at least one listener.

Jamie Anthor of Flint, a 28-year-old who was among a handful of black Americans in the crowd, said Trump's message resonated with her.

"He's totally for African-Americans and getting them jobs, and I'm searching for a job myself," she said.  "It would just be nice to have someone back us up."

 "I don't believe he's a racist, and I'd like to see some evidence on that," Anthor said.  "I'd like to see one ounce of evidence of him saying the n-word or being racist towards anybody."

Trump also called for big-city Democrat leaders to be held accountable for the results of their policies over the past fifty years.  Now here's some red meat for every conservative commentator (Charles Krauthammer, NRO, George Will, etc.) to write follow-up commentary about, rather than complain about Trump and provide support to backslid Republicans.

Make no mistake: this event, in the heart of Democrat-dominated Michigan shows that no one should underestimate the life and energy of the Trump campaign.  My guess is that the attendance exceeded expectations.

The only sad thing is the intimidation (both real and imagined) that's made support for Trump so taboo.  Supporting Trump itself is a protest against the suppression of political correctness.