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News Articles: Michigan

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum, the same place that hosted last summer's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Friday.

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  • Politics

Harris and Trump enter the home stretch with rallies in 2 key Midwest swing states

The campaigns crisscrossed Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump tried to woo Arab Americans and zeroed in on Friday's jobs data as Harris criticized the GOP nominee for violent comments about Liz Cheney.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo,
  • Stephen Fowler,
  • and 2 more
Pro-Palestinian supporters hold a candlelight vigil in Dearborn, Mich., on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks in Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza.

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  • Elections

First Gaza, now Lebanon: How support for Israel’s war is influencing Michigan voting

Many Muslim and Arab American voters are leaning toward third-party candidates or not voting, feeling neither main candidate values their families' lives. Others are choosing between Harris and Trump.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Ziad Buchh,
  • and 1 more
Vice President tours the Hemlock Semiconductor Next-Generation Finishing facility in Hemlock, Mich., on  Oct. 28, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump panned the CHIPS Act. Harris is in Michigan promoting it

In the waning days of the 2024 presidential election, even the bipartisan bill that's pouring $54 billion into the semiconductor manufacturing industry has become a political issue.

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, campaigns in Waterford, Mich., on Friday. Harris made numerous stops in the state as former President Donald Trump held a rally in Detroit. Early voting begins on Saturday in Michigan.

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  • Politics

Harris and Trump hold competing rallies in Michigan

While the two candidates have been crisscrossing the swing states for weeks, this is the first time they are literally crossing paths, with each of them holding events in the suburbs north of Detroit.

October 19, 2024
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By:
  • Don Gonyea,
  • Asma Khalid,
  • and 1 more
Vice President Harris speaks during a rally on Oct. 4 in Flint, Mich.

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  • Politics

In Michigan, Harris hits back against Trump over his electric car attack lines

The Trump campaign is telling Michigan that Vice President Harris would ban gas-powered cars. At a rally in Flint, she pushed back – and said Trump would be bad for the state’s best-known industry.

October 05, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Vice President Harris waves after landing in Flint, Mich., on Oct. 4.

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  • Politics

On the trail in Michigan, Harris hears concerns about Gaza and Lebanon

Arab Americans and Muslims have been frustrated with the Biden administration’s response to the ongoing war in Gaza and the expanding conflict into Lebanon.

October 04, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
GPB News NPR

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  • Elections

These states will decide the election. We went to all of them to talk to voters

Your guide to the six swing states that will decide this year’s presidential election: Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

September 17, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
President Biden speaks to supporters at Renaissance High School on Friday in Detroit.

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  • Elections

Biden punches at Trump and the press as he tries to revive his campaign

In Detroit, President Biden laid out a plan for the first 100 days of his second term, aggressively slammed his opponent — and blamed the media for covering his stumbles.

July 13, 2024
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer shares her leadership philosophy in her new book, <em>True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between</em>.

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  • Politics

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has “complete confidence” in Biden’s candidacy

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership and Everything in Between.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Juana Summers and
  • Mallory Yu
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Freeland, Mich., on Wednesday. A pair of rallies in the pivotal states of Wisconsin and Michigan are his first campaign trail appearances since his trial in New York over alleged campaign finance violations started.

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  • Politics

Away from his New York trial, Donald Trump's campaign rallies are business as usual

In Wisconsin and Michigan, Donald Trump largely avoided the hush money trial that has mostly sidelined his campaign efforts as he tried to woo voters with a familiar speech in two major swing states.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Members of the Sycamore Creek Church congregation bow their heads and pray over Justice League of Greater Lansing leaders, Willye Bryan and Prince Solace, as they hold a large check.

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  • Race

A Michigan grassroots effort is raising reparations, while the government lags

A grassroots effort in Michigan is raising reparations, while the government lags

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Sophia Saliby
Eric Portenga and Kevin O'Neill with daughters Sylvie, Robin and Parker O'Neill celebrating the girls' 2nd birthday in Sept. 2023. The babies' surrogate lived in Ohio because of Michigan's laws, that are changing now.

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  • Health

As Michigan legalizes surrogacy, here's how families found ways around the ban

Michigan was the last state to criminally ban using a paid surrogate to have a child. Now that will change under a law signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday.

April 02, 2024
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By:
  • Kate Wells
President Biden talks with supporters during a campaign event in Saginaw, Mich., on March 14.

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  • Elections

Biden opposes Nippon Steel takeover of U.S. Steel. It's an issue in some swing states

Former President Donald Trump has already said he would block the deal between U.S. Steel and its Japanese rival. Now President Biden is speaking out about it, too.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J.

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  • Politics

Georgia and Michigan could be key to keeping Black voter turnout up in 2024

In the 2022 midterm elections, Black voter turnout dropped dramatically. Ahead of the presidential election in 2024, organizers warn it could happen again and political parties should pay attention.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Placards adorn a wall at an Uncommitted Minnesota watch party during the presidential primary in Minneapolis on Super Tuesday.

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  • Elections

'Uncommitted' movement spreads to Super Tuesday states

Just a week after 100,000 Michigan voters chose uncommitted on their Democratic ballots, hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country made a similar statement on Super Tuesday.

March 06, 2024
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  • Elena Moore
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