Former President Donald Trump won the key battleground state of Michigan, winning 15 Republican electoral votes over Vice President Kamala Harris, NBC News reported.
Michigan has been one of the nation’s most battleground states since powering Trump’s surprise victory in 2016. Michigan was seen by Ms. Harris as a keystone in keeping the White House in Democratic hands. No Democrat has won the White House without Michigan since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Mr. Trump has campaigned aggressively in the Upper Midwest state, which is also the stronghold of his Senate campaign, and has promised to revive the domestic manufacturing industry that once gave the Rust Belt its name. argued that it could not survive without Trump’s administration.
While Ms. Harris aimed to flip working-class voters who may have traditionally identified as Democrats and bring out rural and less-propensity voters, Ms. It needed to appeal to independents and some former Republicans while maximizing base turnout in big cities. Suburbs.
Compared to 2020, he made significant inroads with nonwhite voters, primarily Hispanics, as well as voters under 30, according to NBC News exit polls.
The state is also home to the nation’s largest population of Muslim and Arab Americans, many of whom were at risk of leaving the Democratic Party over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and southern Lebanon. .
Leaders of Muslim and Arab communities organized a campaign called “Abandon Harris” to encourage voters to refrain from supporting the Democratic Party. Left-wing third-party candidates like Jill Stein and Cornel West have positioned themselves as anti-war alternatives to voters who loathe Harris’ support for Israel but dislike Trump, and each have promoted Islamic activists. He was selected as the vice presidential candidate.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first Democratic presidential candidate to lose Michigan in decades, when Trump defeated her by just 10,704 votes. Biden won the state by 154,000 votes, or about 3 percentage points, in 2020, restoring the so-called “blue wall” of Democratic-leaning upper Midwest states.
Trump’s victory this year will ensure that the state remains a key battleground.
