World News – UA – Michigan 2020 Election Results

By Adam Brewster

Updated on: November 4, 2020/7:45 AM
/ CBS NEWS

Michigan has 16 electoral votes up for grabs, and CBS News’ Battleground Tracker rates the race as leaning towards Joe Biden A CBS News poll has shown Democratic candidate Joe Biden for President Trump entering Election Day

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Mr. Trump has made eight trips to Michigan for campaign events since the start of 2019, including two stops the day before election day Biden has made four trips to Michigan since he locked down the Democratic nomination, including stops with former President Obama on Saturday Kamala Harris stopped in Michigan on Tuesday morning, saying « the way to the White House and the path to determining who will be the next President of the United States without a question crosses Michigan »

Mr. Trump toppled Michigan in 2016, becoming the first Republican to win the state since George HW Bush in 1988

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Wednesday morning that state election officials had been working all night to count the votes and that « this work continues »

She said hundreds of thousands of ballots in Michigan’s largest jurisdictions are still being counted, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint, Warren and Sterling Heights

Michigan Secretary of State now predicts all state votes will be counted within the next 24 hours, as opposed to November 6, @JanetShamlian reports

All Michigan polls will close at 9 a.m. ET They start to close in most of the state at 8 p.m. local time, but part of the Upper Peninsula is in the Central Time Zone and these areas will not close. not before 8 p.m. CT (or 9 p.m. ET)

Election officers can start the limited processing of mail-in ballots for 10 hours on the Monday before polling day.This will give poll workers a head start on tallying the record number of mail-in votes, but Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said it could still take until Friday before all votes are counted

President Trump is hoping to replicate his success in Michigan, a state he won by just 10,704 votes in 2016 In 2018, Democrats won every election statewide across the state and recovered the governor’s mansion These victories were largely propelled by Democratic success in the suburbs

In 2016, M Trump won the Michigan suburb by 53% to 42%, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lost the suburb by just 3 points in 2018 This included wins in Oakland County, the wealthier suburb of Detroit County and in Macomb County, a more working-class county than Mr. Trump worn in 2016

The latest CBS News poll showed Biden to lead with independent voters 55% to 43% In 2016, Mr. Trump won 52% to 36% of independents, exit polls show The poll also shows Mr. Trump grapples with white voters with college degrees In 2016 exit polls showed he won the group 51% to 43%

A CBS News poll also showed Biden to lead among educated white voters 55% to 43% White women with college degrees were essential for Whitmer in 2018 She won white women with degrees academics from 62% to 36%, after Hillary Clinton won that group by 50% to 44%, polls show Democrats hope to replicate Whitmer’s success with college-educated voters in places like Oakland County and Kent County, home to Grand Rapids, a longtime Republican stronghold Whitmer carried by 42 points in 2018

The president’s success with white working class voters was essential to his victory in 2016 He won Macomb and Monroe counties outside of Detroit, but also reversed the middle working class areas from Michigan as Saginaw County, which had been a safe Democrat Mister Trump also won Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which has many white working-class voters, by 186 points In 2012, Mitt Romney won the Upper Peninsula by 33 points But Biden may be encroaching on Mr. Trump’s Margins Among White Voters Without a College Degree In October, a CBS News poll found that Mr. Trump led 61% to 37% of those voters, down from his 31-point margin with the group in 2016

Democrats are also working to increase turnout in cities with large populations of black voters, including Detroit and Flint Three days before the election, Biden and former President Obama held drive-ins in the two cities, hoping to generate enthusiasm among supporters Turnout in Detroit fell by more than 41,000 votes from 2012 to 2016 in a city where Clinton won 944% of the vote Mr. Trump also razed Democratic margins in Genesee County, home to Flint Mr. Obama won Genesee by 325 points in 2008 and 282 points in 2012, but Clinton carried it by just 95 points in 2016

Outgoing Democratic Senator Gary Peters faces a tough re-election bid against Republican John James In 2018, James lost a close race to the other state senator, Debbie Stabenow Peters set the emphasis on his bipartisan work, while James has often attacked Peters’ long career in politics Peters topped James, $ 43 million to $ 37 million, but lags behind other Democrats running in the states of the field fighters who try to overthrow the seats Polls have mostly shown Peters leading James, but with relatively close margins

If James wins it could lay a wrench in Democrats’ efforts to win the Senate Cook’s political report rates race as « skinny Democrats »

Michigan was one of the states hardest hit by the pandemic in March, April and May The outbreak prompted Governor Gretchen Whitmer to issue some of the toughest restrictions and a stay-at-home order until the end of May for parts of the state and the beginning of June for the southern part of the lower peninsula

Republicans continued her use of emergency powers, and in October the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a 1945 law that Whitmer was using to invoke emergency powers, forcing her to find other ways to  » adopt public health measures A CBS News poll in October found that 65% of likely voters said the coronavirus outbreak would be a « major factor » in their vote, behind the economy (82%) and healthcare (73%). Likely voters also said Biden would do a better job of handling the pandemic, while 34% of probable voters said M Trump would do a better job Half – 51% – of respondents said Mr. Trump deserves to be blamed for making COVID-19 worse, compared to 25% who said he improved the situation

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Michigan has about 260,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than in 2000. However, since mid-2009 when manufacturing in Michigan hit its lowest level, around 200,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector were added Trade deals like NAFTA were a big part of the president’s message to Michigan in 2016 and the enactment of the US-Mexico-Canada deal was a signature success that Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence boasted during their campaign in the state Manufacturing jobs increased after the Great Recession but began to level off under the Trump administration By BLS, manufacturing jobs Motor vehicles and parts in Michigan fell by about 2,400 from January 2017 to February 2020 Jobs in auto parts manufacturing fell slightly in February 2020 compared to January 2017 Overall, manufacturing jobs have fallen since COVID strike, but started to rebound Michigan’s July Battleground Tracker found Trump still had an edge over Biden (52% -48%) on who would do more to protect U.S. manufacturing jobs A CBS News Battleground poll Tracker in October revealed that Biden and M Trump tied (both at 45%) on who would run the economy better This same poll found more voters (46%) believed the Trump administration was helping the economy recover instead of making it worse (44%) More voters (49%) said Biden would do more to help the economy than make it worse (42%)

In August, Whitmer announced a $ 600 million settlement in the Flint water crisis But as CBS News reported, many Flint residents still don’t trust the water and do always in line to drink bottled water The city was once a major hub of the US auto industry, but nearly went bankrupt in 2014 Officials hoped to save money by changing the city’s water source According to « 60 Minutes, » a preliminary finding of 174 children who underwent extensive neuro-exams determined that 80% of them will need help with language, learning or intellectual disabilities 2,000 children have been connected to services such as speech and occupational therapy Flint is 54% black and the average household income was $ 27,717 from 2014 to 2018, with 40% of its residents in poverty

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