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The rally was Trump's 11th in Michigan since the beginning of the 2016 presidential race, according to his campaign, and the fifth in the Detroit area.

\"While the fake news media will be celebrating themselves with the denizens of Washington society in the swamp that evening, President Trump will be in a completely different Washington, celebrating our national economic revival with patriotic Americans,\" said Micahel Glassner, chief operating officer for the Trump campaign, in a statement announcing the event, referring to Washington, Michigan.

The rally began at 7 p.m. ET, the same time as the correspondent's dinner, an annual gathering arranged by the association representing the White House press corps.

Last year, Trump mocked the annual Washington gathering of reporters as \"boring\" during a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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PHOTO: President Donald Trump walks on stage at a rally at Total Sports Park in Washington, Michigan, April 28, 2018.
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\"A large group of Hollywood actors and Washington media are consoling each other in a hotel ballroom in our nation's capital right now,\" Trump told the crowd at last year's rally, held roughly three months after he was sworn into office.

Both Pennsylvania and Michigan are key states that had backed Democrats for decades prior to Trump's upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“I like that he’s bringing jobs back to Michigan,” said rally attendee Paul Allen, 19, who came with his father and younger sister. “I like it all.”

Allen, who was too young to vote in 2016, said he plans to vote for Trump in 2020. The teen called most media biased, and said he gets his news from YouTube or InfoWars.

Trump won Michigan in 2016 by just over 10,000 votes, the first time a Republican had captured the state on the presidential level since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

Today's rally was held about an hour north of Detroit in Macomb County, a swing area won by former President Barack Obama in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, but swung in Trump's favor in his defeat of Clinton.

ABC News' M.L. Nestel and Wil Cruz contributed to this story.

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