DETROIT Donald Trump held a rally here Friday night, promising to rescue the city he has recently held up as a symbol of American decline.

It was in many ways a typical Trump speech before adoring supporters, most of whom waited hours in line to attend.

The Republican presidential nominee started out reciting his standard stump speech, touching on policy areas such as trade and immigration. Then, somewhere around the 50-minute mark and following a roughly 20-minute interruption when the centers microphones failed he began what he has started calling his weave, wandering off into other topics and pausing to introduce local celebrities.

But the former president was speaking at the Huntington Place, the downtown convention hall that played a central role in Trumps efforts to contest Michigans votes in the 2020 election.

And that was just one of the ways the site gave Fridays event a unique flavor.