*Kwame Kilpatrick, once the Democratic mayor of Detroit, is now campaigning to help re-elect Donald Trump—the man who freed him from prison.
After resigning amid a corruption scandal, serving time in federal prison, and getting divorced, Kilpatrick is presenting himself as a changed man. At a Republican dinner in suburban Detroit, he urged voters to support Trump, explaining that the Democratic Party has shifted away from his values, New York Post reports.
Despite his efforts to back Trump, Kilpatrick stopped short of labeling himself a Republican.
“I’m not Democrat or Republican,” Kilpatrick said Monday during a radio interview with 910AM. Later in the conversation, he invited people to join him on Wednesday for a meet-and-greet.
“I would love to have the opportunity to converse with you there,” Kilpatrick said.
“I think it’s going to be a good opportunity for us to really have a shift of ideas, but also a putting down of our weapons to figure out how we elect Donald Trump to be president United States,” he added.
Kilpatrick noted that the Democratic Party he “was a part of in the 1990s and 2000” has dramatically shifted since 2004.
“So I’m changing. The world is changing,” he stated.
“Even then I was in the DLC, which is the Democratic Leadership Conference, I was more of a conservative Democrat, but I see myself more aligned with ideas, with policies and with people,” Kilpatrick added.
Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years for federal corruption in 2013, but Trump commuted his sentence in January 2021. Kilpatrick now says he has undergone a “metamorphosis” since that time, per The Post.
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