LANSING — Donald Trump has won Michigan’s presidential election, according to vote tallies finalized Wednesday, completing a stunning political comeback in a state he lost four years ago.
Trump didn’t need Michigan to win the White House, however.
He’d already secured national victory by winning Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which along with Michigan had represented a “blue wall” that Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris needed to hold.
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said in a Wednesday morning Florida speech, declaring victory around 2:30 a.m. even though results were not final at that time.
“We’re going to help our country heal. We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.”
Michigan was once again a battleground state for both campaigns, drawing multiple visits by both Harris and Trump, who capped his campaign with a late-night rally in Grand Rapids.
Trump won the state by 10,704 votes over Hillary Clinton in 2016 but lost to President Joe Biden by 154,188 votes as Democrats re-established their “blue wall,” a relatively wider margin that was still within three percentage points.
Trump’s unofficial Electoral College conquest means he is poised to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to win non-consecutive terms (who won the elections in 1884 and 1892).
Trump improved on his 2020 performance throughout Michigan, including small gains in Black-majority communities like Detroit and big gains in Arab American centers like Dearborn.
In Oakland County, a vote-rich area where Democrats hoped to build on recent gains, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris won by 8% — far short of the 14% that President Joe Biden won there in 2020.
Check the Michigan results below:
