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President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Total Sports Park in Washington, Michigan on April 28, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — It shouldn’t be a surprise why President Trump is holding a rally in Michigan tonight.Remember, Barack Obama won Michigan by 16 points in 2008 and 9 points in 2012. Yet Trump took it by 10,704 votes in the last presidential race.
On the plus side for Trump, Michigan exemplifies how rural, white working-class voters have broken away from the Democratic Party — and have given the GOP a much better chance to win the state than during the Obama years. On the negative side, however, Trump’s political problems in the suburbs — hello, Oakland and Macomb counties — highlight his challenge for 2020.Tonight, though, Trump campaigns in GOP-friendly Grand Rapids , which Mitt Romney won in 2012.shows 43 percent of Americans believe Trump and the GOP will win the presidency in 2020, while an equal 43 percent think the Dem candidate will win.finds 53 percent of national voters saying they definitely wouldn’t vote for Trump in 2020.
He’s going to spike the football from the summary of the Mueller report – even though Congress and the public hasn’t read the full report.Here’s former FBI Director James Comey, in his interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, shedding some perspective on Mueller:“It does [surprise me].
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