‘The momentum is on our side,’ Harris said at Michigan State University.
Simon D. Schuster
Simon D. Schuster is a Capitol Reporter for Bridge Michigan. Simon joined Bridge Michigan in 2024 after working as MLive's senior political reporter and later covering politics on their investigative team. He spent three years tracking the influence of political money in Michigan as executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, a nonpartisan nonprofit. A Michigan native, Simon received a bachelor's and a master of public policy from Michigan State University, where he was a policy fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. Outside of work you'll find him in Detroit, backpacking northern Michigan or visiting his fiancée in Scandinavia. He lives in Lansing.
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Donald Trump claims he has ‘overwhelming support’ from Muslims in Michigan
Trump made a play for Muslim American votes with a stop in Dearborn, then railed against immigration, electric vehicles and the state of the economy — while deriding Harris and Biden — at a rally in Warren.
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Trump to cap campaign in Grand Rapids
Trump also capped his 2020 campaign with a large rally in Grand Rapids, acknowledging a “superstitious” motivation to return to the city.
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Kamala Harris returning to Michigan in swing state blitz
The weekend visit to Michigan was announced as part of a broader tour of all seven battleground states over the final days of the election.
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Meet the Michigan voters who may decide the election for Trump or Harris
Every vote counts in a close election, but Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are spending extra time courting a handful of key groups.
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Kamala Harris in Michigan urges young people to vote: ‘Now is the time’
‘I love your generation,” Harris told young voters in Ann Arbor, capping a statewide blitz that included stops in Saginaw and Macomb County.
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Federal judge dismisses GOP lawsuit over Michigan voter rolls
GOP attorneys argued Michigan voter rolls were bloated because the state was not following federal law. A judge rejected those claims.
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Election results may take a day, Jocelyn Benson says
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Detroit kicks off early voting Saturday. It goes statewide Oct. 26
Already, nearly 1 million Michigan voters have returned absentee ballots, but they won’t begin being tabulated until days after the first early voting ballots are cast in Detroit.
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Kamala Harris, Donald Trump ramp up fight for Michigan in final weeks of campaign
Democrats may be correcting course with a renewed emphasis on Detroit, the state’s largest city, where turnout can decide elections.