Michigan

October 21, 2024

M LIVE: 15 Days to Election 2024: Mark Cuban, Doug Emhoff campaign for Harris in West Michigan

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban was in West Michigan over the weekend telling a crowd the ability to turn your dream into a business that can support a family is what sets America apart from other countries.

October 21, 2024

POLITICO: Kamala Harris Is Winning Over College Students in Michigan. The Uncommitted Movement Could Still Cost Her the Election.

The campus “uncommitted” movement has waned in Michigan. But in a battleground state with wafer-thin margins, a few holdouts could change everything.

October 18, 2024

WAPO: Harris, Trump to converge on battleground state of Michigan

Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have multiple campaign stops scheduled Friday in the battleground state of Michigan

October 18, 2024

POLITICO: Harris ramps up blue-collar appeals with stop at Michigan union hall

The vice president will visit the workers’ union hall to highlight Donald Trump’s threat to her and President Joe Biden’s industrial investments — and the Rust Belt jobs they’ve created.

October 15, 2024

WAPO: In a Michigan city, Harris has failed to catch fire with Black men

In December, Black men in Pontiac told The Post they were unenthused about Biden. Now, some feel the same about Harris.

October 14, 2024

DETROIT NEWS: 'A classic tossup': Michigan finding key role in historic presidential race

In terms of intensity and length, Michigan is witnessing a race for the presidency unlike anything it's seen in modern history, longtime political observers in the state said with 22 days remaining until Election Day.

October 7, 2024

THE HILL: Michigan and Georgia Arab-American voters sour on Harris

Vice President Harris is facing growing signs that Arab American and Muslim voters are souring on her in the key battlegrounds of Michigan and Georgia as anger rises over the expanding conflict in the Middle East.

October 4, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: James, Marlinga locked in suburban Detroit rematch of Michigan's closest 2022 House race

In a Metro Detroit rematch that features the same characters in a familiar storyline, Republican U.S. Rep. John James is facing another challenge from Democrat and former Macomb County prosecutor Carl Marlinga, who is plotting an upset.

October 3, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Vance won't commit to $500M federal grant for building EVs at Michigan auto plant

Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance would not commit a second Trump administration to honoring the Biden administration's $500 million federal grant to General Motors Co. to convert a Cadillac sedan assembly plant in Michigan into a future electric vehicle plant.

September 28, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Kamala Harris to visit Flint, JD Vance in Marne next week

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will campaign in Flint on Friday, and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance will hold two events in Michigan on Wednesday.

September 27, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: Incidents tied to political violence getting more attention in atmosphere of mistrust

Details of a suspected vandalism incident in Washtenaw County, which recently were posted on social media and reported by a metro Detroit TV station, have stirred concerns of political violence and stoked outrage in a string of online comments.

September 26, 2024

RECORD EAGLE: Top Muslim-voter organization endorses Harris as Middle East conflict escalates

One of the nation's largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid

September 26, 2024

DETROIT NEWS: Vance encourages early, absentee voting in Traverse City event

After roughly an hour of touting his running mate Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, JD Vance wrapped his message to a crowd of northern Michigan supporters Wednesday with these instructions: Get out and vote early in the 2024 presidential election, and take your friends.

September 20, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Walz accelerates his preparations for upcoming debate with Vance

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road.

September 20, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Howes: What Trump's riff on China's auto push portends for Detroit

As Detroit's automotive brass worries how it can compete against a Chinese juggernaut, former President Donald Trump came to the birthplace of General Motors and the Sit-Down Strikes this week with a message: Don't bother.

September 20, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Kamala Harris in Michigan: Action needed on gun violence, economic hurdles

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd in suburban Detroit Thursday that people are finding the American dream "far more elusive than it's been" and the country needs to "deal with that."

September 19, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: Federal judge tells RFK, Jr. his name will stay on Michigan's presidential ballot

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate for president, to have his name removed from Michigan's Nov. 5 ballot.

September 19, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: Junge, McDonald Rivet take aim at each other in tossup race to fill Dan Kildee's seat

Among the most intriguing elections in Michigan this fall is a test of just how far a once reliably Democratic-leaning region around Flint, Bay City and Saginaw has shifted toward Republicans under the populism of former President Donald Trump.

September 19, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Michigan Republican lawmaker says some don't see Kamala Harris as 'authentically Black'

Michigan state Rep. Jim DeSana, a Republican, suggested, during a political event in July, that some people don't perceive Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris as "authentically Black," according to a recording obtained by The Detroit News.

September 19, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: FBI: Iranian hackers failed to interest Biden campaign in stolen Trump info

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump's campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.

September 16, 2024

USA TODAY: Hope, Michigan: A tale of two hopeful places, one recovering from an epic disaster.

Lori and Richard Stade built their dream retirement home off a canal where they fished for bass and bluegill and took their grandchildren boating in what was known as "pontoon alley."

September 16, 2024

M LIVE: Harris, Trump aren’t alone: Here’s the full lineup of president candidates on Michigan ballots

State election officials this week gave county clerks the go-ahead to begin printing election ballots for November, a Michigan Secretary of State representative said.

September 13, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Trump targets 'hardest working citizens,' vows to end taxes on overtime pay

Republican Donald Trump pledged to eliminate taxes on overtime pay at a rally days after a shaky debate performance, as the presidential nominee looked to turn the page with a new populist tax cut proposal.

September 13, 2024

M LIVE: Tim Walz Michigan visit touts Kamala Harris as ‘brighter, more hopeful’ alternative to Donald Trump

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Grand Rapids Thursday evening as part of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “New Way Forward” battleground tour to mobilize support in swing states.

September 13, 2024

LSJ: How Eaton County has voted over 100 years of presidential elections

Eaton County voters have done their own fair share of swinging between parties in recent presidential elections but Donald Trump’s late August visit to Potterville – with its flag waving and supporters – was for a county that has been supportive of Republicans, even if elections have gotten tighter in recent years.

September 10, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: Heading into Harris-Trump debate, here's what polls in Michigan and elsewhere say

Heading into Tuesday night's first and potentially only presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and Republican former President Donald Trump, the race couldn't be tighter in Michigan.

September 9, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: In close Michigan congressional contest, 2 former colleagues spar

But this fall's race for the 7th District seat promises to be just as hard-fought and just as expensive if not more so, especially given that the Republican Party, represented by former state Sen. Tom Barrett of Charlotte

September 9, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Walz to make first solo campaign visit to Michigan

The Thursday visit will kick off a swing through eight battleground states for the Harris-Walz campaign, the campaign announced Sunday.

September 7, 2024

DETROIT FREE PRESS: DNC flies plane over Michigan Stadium with banner blasting Ohio State fan JD Vance

Can college football rivalries motivate Michigan voters to oppose a GOP ticket that includes Ohio State fan JD Vance? Democrats continue to test the theory — this time with a plane flying a banner highlighting Vance's loyalty to his alma mater above the Big House on Saturday.

September 7, 2024

THE DETROIT NEWS: Biden signs pro-labor order in Michigan, dares a successor to undo it

Democratic President Joe Biden signed a pro-labor executive order in Michigan Friday, flexing his administrative powers in a bid to promote unions and worker benefits, while daring a successor to repeal the policy.

Battleground News is the source for 2024 election news as it pertains to the seven swing states and their 93 electoral votes. With local sources, we cover how voters in each swing state district are thinking about the issues and the candidates.