Saginaw in Michigan is a bellwether county. It has backed the successful candidate in each US presidential election since 2008, voting for Barack Obama twice, for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and, by a sliver, for Joe Biden over Trump final time spherical.
It was as soon as, like the remainder of Michigan, secure Democrat territory – a part of a “blue wall” stretching into neighbouring Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. However a long time of business decline – automobile factories closing and job losses of their hundreds – have worn away a few of that help.
The Guardian US author Chris McGreal, who has spent the previous six weeks in Saginaw, tells Michael Safi many nonetheless blame Democrat ‘elites’ for what has occurred to their county. And in Trump they see somebody promising that their affluent previous can return.
However have the Democrats completed sufficient prior to now 4 years to influence a few of their previous voters to return? And if Saginaw goes that means, would possibly the remainder of the nation too?
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