Vice President JD Vance expected this week to visit Michigan

Craig Mauger, The Detroit News on Mar 16, 2026

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Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Michigan Wednesday, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans.

The sources requested to speak on the condition of anonymity because they were not yet authorized to discuss Vance's upcoming travel schedule. Two of the sources said they were told the vice president will speak somewhere in Oakland County.

His visit is expected to come six days after a 41-year-old man from Dearborn Heights attacked the Temple Israel synagogue in Oakland County's West Bloomfield Township. The man, Ayman Ghazali slammed his Ford F-150 through the front doors of Temple Israel on Thursday and engaged in gunfire with the synagogue's security team before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot, FBI Detroit Field Office Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan said at a Friday news conference.

Vance's office didn't immediately comment on the planned Michigan visit.

Vance, a former U.S. senator from Ohio, made stops in Livingston County in September 2025 and in Bay County in March 2025.

Vance's expected visit this week will come about 230 days before a pivotal election in Michigan, where voters will pick a new governor and new U.S. senator in November.

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—Staff Writer Melissa Nann Burke contributed.