LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI - The last time Gabriel Wiechert saw Vice President J.D. Vance in Michigan, it was at a Grand Rapids rally the week after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

The Michigan State University (MSU) senior will soon see Vance speak for a third time Wednesday, Sept. 17 at the Hatch Stamping facility in Howell. He is among several hundred in attendance.

The rally comes in a similar moment of political unrest as his last one he was at, a week after conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was killed .

“I’ve seen really a lot of people coming together after this tragic event,” Wiechert said of Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination at Utah Valley University.

“I think part of the reason (of) being here today is just to honor Charlie’s memory with JD Vance,

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