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Supporters and foes greet Trump before Flint rally

File photo: Supporters wave campaign signs at an August Donald Trump rally in Dimondale, MI.
Cheyna Roth
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MPRN
File photo: Supporters wave campaign signs at an August Donald Trump rally in Dimondale, MI.

Dozens of demonstrators lined a highway near the Flint Water plant to be visited by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The crowd included both supporters and opponents.

Leslie Wilson was wearing a “Flint Lives Matter” t-shirt and wore a string of empty plastic water bottles around her waist.

She says she doesn’t think Trump really cares about the city’s water crisis, or helping Flint.

"Sixty days before the election, he’s obviously just trying to get a little publicity stunt, so he can get an extra couple of followers, an extra couple of people to vote for him," Wilson says. "That’s all it is."

Robert Owens lives in a Flint suburb. He sported an NRA cap and waved a Trump sign at passing cars and trucks.

Owens says Trump is the person to fix Flint and other struggling cities.

"Everything he stands for – making America great again," he says. "These people are yelling they want Flint water better. Why not vote for someone who can do that?"

The pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators outside the plant got into some heated arguments at times.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton traveled to Flint in February.

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