It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

We begin this week with our usual Monday morning politics segment and continue the Monday

series we've been doing on the swing states

one by one. Today, Michigan, one of the states where voting is already underway. Trump won

Michigan in 2016. Joe Biden won it in 2020. Here's how much of a swing state it is. In 2016,

Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by just 11,000 votes out of

four and a half million cash, just two-tenths of a point win, the closest in the nation.

In 2020, Joe Biden won Michigan a little more comfortably by about 154,000 votes out of about

5.5 million cast. That was about a three percentage point win.

But another twist came in February of this year in the Democratic primary when more than 100,000

people voted uncommitted to protest Biden's policy toward the war in Gaza.

Here's Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Taleb,

the only Palestinian American member of Congress,

supporting a vote for uncommitted before that primary.

This is the way you can raise our voices.

Don't make us even more invisible.

Right now, we feel completely neglected and just unseen by our government.

If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted. we feel completely neglected and just unseen by our government.

If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted.

So one question in Michigan now is how many of those 100,000 voters will come home to Kamala Harris. Another question is the possible influence of the vice presidential candidates, both from neighboring Midwest

states and reflecting different kinds of Midwest populism, you might say. Tim Walls and J.D. Vance

will have their debate tomorrow night. We'll have it on the station, perhaps a bigger deal in

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