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President Joe Biden answers questions while departing the White House on January 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, I went to see a podcast live show in Brooklyn. When the show was over, I joined some friends at a bar where everyone was anxiously watching results continue to come in from around the country. Newscasters kept saying that one of the states Trump needed to win was Michigan. As a Michigan native, I kept telling people, in a calm and reassuring manner, that during every presidential election I could remember, the Republican always started the night winning Michigan, and then Wayne County’s votes came in and the Democrat won.
As it turned out, this time was different. Trump won the state by an absurdly narrow margin — 47.5 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 47.27 percent.
In 2020, Michigan was back to looking like the blue-leaning swing state it had been for decades. Joe Biden won the state by a margin of 50.7 percent to 47.84 percent.
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