This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor and I turn to the Electoral College map.

It includes six swing states and Michigan is one of them.

And Thaddeus McCotter, of Greatness is here with me a man who knows

Michigan very well a recovering politician he knows it by counties and recently I had

information from our good colleague, Salina Zito, that the county,

Macomb county is in play.

Now, you will recall, Macomb county was said to be the reason Donald Trump won Michigan in 2016. He lost it in

2020. That is however knows much more about McComb County and its

neighboring counties than I do. There's one

particular county that's important here, Oakland County. That is if Michigan is

a swing state, does that mean Macomb and Oakland must vote in a certain way that we should watch those two counties?

You've given me to understand over time that the Democratic Party in Michigan is very much in charge of the vote, which puzzles me why it continues to be a swing state according to national announcements.

John, when you look at Michigan, a lot of people misinterpreted 2016.

They looked at it in terms of Oakland County, which was trending blue at the time,

and you looked at McComb County, which was trending blue at the time, and you looked at McComb County, which was trending red.

But what you really saw that popped out was the blue-collar Democratic vote in Wayne County

in other working areas, went for Donald Trump, Trump not Hillary Clinton and then you also

saw a lot of married women that either did not vote for Hillary Clinton or

voted for Donald Trump and that was that was that was the key now when you went forward into 2020 and you had the COVID rules, the Democrats decided they were much to their liking.

And they had a constitutional amendment that was passed.

And so in Michigan, you have the COVID rules are now part of our state

constitution including ballot harvesting being acceptable and having billionaires

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