A debate kid from Muskegon has a rebuttal.
President Trump said my hometown's name in a speech this week. I'm from Muskegon — Mona Shores, class of 2002, second in the state in policy debate, a skill my father taught me. So let me return the favor. A debate kid from Muskegon has a rebuttal.
He came to the microphone talking about fraud. The record says: decades of research put voter-fraud rates between 0.0003 and 0.0025 percent — the Brennan Center found an American is more likely to be struck by lightning than to impersonate a voter at the polls. The record also says: 745,652 Americans had no home on a single night in January 2025, by the federal government's own count. One of these is a ghost story told to win elections. The other is sleeping outside tonight, in Muskegon.
We do not have a fraud crisis. We have a floor crisis. This country already builds a room for anyone who falls far enough — as a jail cell, at jail-cell prices, after the suffering. Build rooms people can live in instead: a minimum floor, not just a minimum wage.
He named my town. My town deserves the real argument.
The floor this stands on (the one rule; no lying)
Every number here is cited and checkable. The voter-fraud rate (0.0003–0.0025 percent) and the lightning comparison are the Brennan Center's own findings; the 745,652 figure is HUD's 2025 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, a single-night January 2025 count. The claim that the speech named Muskegon is the author's firsthand account. This is a signed rebuttal and labeled opinion; it argues the record, not the man, and it would read the same about anyone, of any party, who told the ghost story instead of counting the people. Kin: prisons, not pools; the minimum floor, not the minimum wage. Only humans score.