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Joe Biden, desperately seeking states to win back from Donald Trump, has been looking at Michigan, one of the so-called “blue walls” that sent Trump to the White House in 2016.
Trump has an early lead in the ‘blue wall’ states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, but much of that has been built on the basis of Republican voting on Election Day. Counting mail ballots in all three states is expected to take hours or days.
On Saturday, Barack Obama and Joe Biden took the stage at a drive-in movie at Northwestern High School outside of Flint, Michigan, a former distressed auto manufacturing hub known as “Vehicle City.”
But due to Biden’s Covid safety campaign, only 179 cars were admitted to watch Obama speak in Flint, and no undecided voters.
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Demographic changes
In 2016, Michigan saw the closest race of any of America’s 50 states. Trump won by just 0.2 percent, fewer than 11,000 votes out of the more than 4.5 million cast.
Hillary Clinton won heavily Democratic Genesee County, which includes Flint, but there was a nearly 20 percentage point turnaround for Trump when disgruntled former industrial workers switched sides. That Genesee County turnaround alone was enough to give Trump Michigan.
The Democratic Vice President of the Flint City Council in Michigan announced that he was backing the president.
Early voting
Michigan, along with Arizona, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin are among the states that will help determine which candidate gets 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
With 51 percent of the estimated votes counted so far in Michigan, Trump has 54.3 percent and Biden 43.9 percent, according to Edison’s research.
