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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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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.
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Harris running ad on Trump remarks slamming Detroit
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump warned the Detroit Economic Club that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Kamala Harris is elected, her campaign unveiled a new ad slamming his comments. This story also appeared in Bridge Michigan “He should be so goddamn lucky,” narrator Courtney B. Vance, a Detroit […]
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Donald Trump disparages Detroit in city speech, pitches plan to ‘save’ autos
The Republican presidential nominee promised a litany of tax cuts, deductions and credits that he argued would “save” the domestic auto industry.
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GOP sues Michigan to block ‘never resided’ voters in presidential election
At issue is a small number of U.S. voters who have never lived in the U.S. but were born to parents who previously lived in Michigan.
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Donald Trump and JD Vance both slated to visit Detroit this week
Trump and Vance have been working to court voters in Michigan’s largest city, hoping to peel off some support from Democrat Kamala Harris in a state that Trump won by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016.
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Kamala Harris calls Donald Trump a ‘disaster’ for Michigan autos. Here are the facts
Kamala Harris came to Flint seeking to counter weeks of arguments by former President Donald Trump, touting her economic record and the state of Michigan’s auto industry.
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Donald Trump claims he ‘won’ Michigan in 2020 — and will again
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a Michigan speech to repeat claims about the 2020 election, the state’s auto industry and tax policy. Here are the facts.
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‘Make them riot’ in Detroit. Trump 2020 election case marked by new allegations
Donald Trump pressured a top Republican to spread false claims about Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election and a campaign operative ‘sought to create chaos’ in Detroit, according to a newly unsealed court filing by special counsel Jack Smith.