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How Harris and Trump are trying to reach voters in the battleground state of Michigan

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Saturday is the first day of statewide early voting in Michigan, and both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are in the state trying to energize their supporters. Chad Livengood, politics editor and columnist at The Detroit News, joins John Yang to discuss the neck-and-neck race for Michigan's 15 electoral votes. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Today's the first day of statewide early voting in Michigan and both presidential

0:05.1

candidates are in the state trying to energize their supporters. Former

0:08.8

President Donald Trump's in Novi, which is a suburb of Detroit.

0:11.9

Year after year, globalist politicians like Kamala Harris

0:17.0

sold you out and let other countries loot and pillage and plunder your wealth.

0:22.0

Vice President Kamala Harris is on the other side loot and pillage and plunder your wealth.

0:22.8

Vice President Kamla Harris is on the other side of the state pressing her message that reproductive

0:28.0

rights are at stake in the election.

0:31.1

We are seeing the impact of these laws causing clinics, health care clinics to shut down.

0:37.0

The physicians that I've been talking with are concerned about the myriad of issues that have highlighted the fact that because of

0:44.9

Trump and what he did with the Supreme Court we are looking at a health care

0:49.2

crisis in America. Tonight she'll be in Kalamazoo with former first lady Michelle Obama.

0:55.0

Earlier I asked Chad Livengood, the Detroit News Politics Editor and Colonist, to tell us about

1:00.6

the race for Michigan's 15 electoral votes.

1:04.3

This race is neck and neck, and there is no clear front runner

1:09.2

in Michigan right now.

1:10.8

Kamala Harris is spending Saturday with former first lady, Michelle Obama in

1:16.5

Kalamazoo, a university town, Western Michigan University.

1:20.8

She needs to do really well in these university towns in Ann Arbor and Ipsalani and Mal Pleasant and of course

1:28.8

East Lansing as well because this is where she's going to need to run the score up to

1:33.6

counter some of Trump's advantages in working class cities in the state.

1:38.1

Former President Trump is today is in Oakland County which is a Detroit suburb. What does that tell us about who he's trying to motivate?

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