| Donald Trump won Michigan, once again turning the state red just four years after his defeat in 2020. Both candidates spent a number of their final days in the Great Lakes State as polls projected a race hanging on a knife's edge. Both Trump and Kamala Harris emphasized manufacturing and the economy in their visits, addressing voters' worries about lingering post-pandemic inflation — a chief concern that bolstered the former president's appeal.
The Harris campaign poured resources into the state, spending significantly more money than Trump on ads and implementing a stronger voter outreach program on the ground. But Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, increasingly camped out in Michigan in the final stretch, shoring up support among a swath of voters the vice president struggled to win over. The state's large population of white and blue-collar voters helped Trump narrowly defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, a playbook he was able to replicate this cycle. And Harris' struggles among Black men, union voters and Arab American voters in the state aided the former president's comeback in the razor-thin race for Michigan's 15 electoral votes. Read the latest
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