Howell — Vice President JD Vance is set to address a crowd of hundreds Wednesday at a metal stamping plant here in Livingston County about a week after the assassination of conservative activist and Trump administration ally Charlie Kirk.

Vance was a close friend of 31-year-old Kirk, the founder of the conservative political organization Turning Point USA. On Monday, the vice president hosted Kirk’s radio show in a sign of support, and last week he transported Kirk’s body home from Utah to Arizona aboard Air Force Two.

The trip will also serve as an opportunity for Vance to promote the sweeping domestic policy and tax cut package passed by Republicans and signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year. He will be joined on a visit to a plant for Hatch Stamping Co. by Michigan U.S. R

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