Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
Michigan is shaping up to be the whole ballgame for 2020
3 minutes Posted Dec 21, 2019 at 2:45 pm.
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This week, Daniel Howes says President Donald Trump chose Michigan to counter the House impeachment vote because the state is shaping up to be a linchpin in his 2020 re-election effort. The signs are there: NBC News is tracking voter sentiment in and around Grand Rapids; the White House is tracking the votes of the state's Democratic members of Congress; Attorney General William Barr is touting a federal anti-violent crime partnership in Detroit; and Trump is taking his message to the heart of the industrial Midwest — often.