Betsy DeVos, the nominee for Education Secretary, said “it’s time to make education great again” as part of President-elect Donald Trump’s “thank you tour” at a rally Friday night near her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“She’s going to do an incredible job,” said Trump, before a full house at the DeltaPlex Arena. He said he expected her to “make great strides” in reforming the education sector. “It will be a beautiful thing.”
It was a return to the neighborhood of Trump’s final rally of the campaign, which stretched past midnight into Election Day. It had been a last-minute decision to go to Michigan and the state rewarded him with its 16 electoral votes after a narrow victory of just under 11,000 votes against Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival. – READ MORE
