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Trump Wins Michigan, on Track to Sweep Swing States

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President-elect Trump anticipated to brush swing states as Michigan win places electoral vote at 292–224.

The Related Press (AP) referred to as Michigan and its 15 electoral votes for President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday.

It seems that President-elect Donald Trump goes to win each single battleground state within the 2024 presidential election, as all however two declare him the winner and people different two stay undecided.

The AP referred to as Michigan simply earlier than 1 p.m. on Nov. 6, with Trump beating Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.5 proportion factors with 98 % of the vote counted.

Trump secured the mandatory 270 electoral votes and the election victory by claiming Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes) and Wisconsin (10 electoral votes), in line with the Related Press, after profitable Georgia (16 electoral votes) and North Carolina (16 electoral votes) earlier within the night time.

Trump had crisscrossed the Wolverine State, making not less than 112 appearances there since asserting his candidacy in November 2022. On Monday night time, the previous president performed his closing marketing campaign rally in Grand Rapids, as he did in every of the final two campaigns.

The race right here was thought of a toss-up from the beginning by Prepare dinner Political Report, although Harris had led by a slight margin in most fall polls.
The ultimate ballot of Michigan voters, launched by The New York Instances/Siena School on Nov. 3, discovered Harris and Trump tied at 47 %. That consequence was inside the margin of error, making the race a statistical tie.

Harris too had visited the state ceaselessly, together with a number of appearances in every of the final three weeks. Her promise to guard entry to abortion and to “flip the web page” from the Trump period drew giant, enthusiastic crowds.

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Ultimately, Trump’s promise to reinvigorate Michigan’s auto trade, halt unlawful immigration, and decrease power costs satisfied the vast majority of Michiganders.

Remaining Battlegrounds

In the meantime, the AP has nonetheless but to name the victor of the remaining two battleground states: Nevada and Arizona.

In Nevada, Trump at the moment leads Harris by 5 factors with 84 % of the vote counted.

Lastly, Arizona trails behind, with solely 61 % of its votes counted since polls closed at 9 p.m. on Nov. 5. Trump leads Harris by almost 5 proportion factors.

The one different state whose electoral votes stay unclaimed is Alaska, and Trump leads there, as nicely, by greater than 5 factors with 76 % of the vote counted.

Successful the 2 remaining swing states would give him 309 electoral votes, and Alaska’s three votes would make it a closing vote of 312–224. Successful these states would additionally assist Trump’s possibilities of profitable the favored vote. In keeping with the Related Press, he has earned almost 72 million votes in comparison with Harris’s almost 67 million votes as of 12:30 p.m.

These projected victories come after months of tight polling outcomes exhibiting slim margins of victory in key states for each candidates relying on the ballot.

Voter integrity lawsuits had been fought in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan within the days main as much as the election. Pennsylvania and Georgia additionally needed to prolong voting in a number of precincts. For Pennsylvania, it was software program malfunctions. For Georgia, it was bomb threats.
The outcomes additionally observe Trump being endorsed by Muslim leaders in Michigan, and a stronger turnout of Latino voters for Trump in Nevada.

Out of the seven battleground states, North Carolina was the one state Trump has received in all three presidential races. He misplaced Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona to President Joe Biden in 2020.

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Nevada is the one state out of this yr’s battleground that Trump misplaced in 2020 and in 2016 when he ran towards Hillary Clinton.

Lawrence Wilson contributed to this report. 

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