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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

'That's the ballgame': Town hall with Michigan union workers reveals key to 2024 success

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

NBC News

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Plus, Interviews with undecided battleground voters explain closeness, complexity of 2024 race

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0:00.0

Good evening. You can probably tell that I am not in our usual New York

0:09.0

studio tonight. Instead we are coming to you live from Lansing's Midtown Brewery right here in the

0:16.2

Valor Ground State of Michigan. This is one of the crucial states that will

0:21.1

decide who the next president is and both campaigns know it.

0:25.2

Later this week Donald Trump will be headed back to the Detroit metro area just one week

0:29.7

after he held a town hall in Flint, Michigan.

0:32.9

Meanwhile, the Harris Wall's campaign

0:34.6

is barnstorming the state with a bus tour

0:37.4

focused on the issue of reproductive freedom.

0:40.2

That bus just rolled into town this morning and we're going to have more on that later on this hour,

0:45.3

including an interview with one of the very important people riding on that bus.

0:50.7

It is a critical time for the Harris campaign in the state of Michigan.

0:54.3

Today a new USA-to-day poll finds Kamala Harris narrowly leading Donald Trump in this

1:00.1

state by three points which is well within that poll's margin of error.

1:05.2

The poll also shows that 4% of voters remain undecided with just 42 days left

1:11.5

until election day.

1:13.4

The battle for Michigan is likely to come down to a handful of votes and a handful of key places.

1:20.0

One of those places is in the Russ Belt community of Saginaw County. Now Saginaw is somewhat

1:25.8

famous for how much of a bellwether it is. This week the Guardian newspaper declared

1:30.6

Zaginaw the swing county that could decide this election.

1:35.0

To put that into perspective, in 2016, Donald Trump won Zagenaw County by just 1%

1:41.2

about 1,000 votes. Four years later, Joe Biden won the county by an even narrower

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