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Trump’s Michigan Failure Came Outside Detroit’s City Limits
The President lost the Great Lakes State in the suburbs and on the Lake Michigan shoreline.
In the three weeks since Election Day, Donald Trump has kept up a constant stream of complaints about Michigan’s Wayne County results.
On a basic level, you can understand why. Detroit dominates the county, and as the city with the highest percentage of Black residents in the United States, it isn’t somewhere he will get many votes.
Also, as Trump’s legal team has repeatedly pointed out, more than a quarter of Detroit’s electoral precincts reported out-of-balance reports: usually resulting from a small difference between the number of voters and ballot papers.
Wayne also had the most votes of any Michigan county, posting 861,723 to beat out neighboring Oakland County’s 760,065. And yes, if you remove the county from the final tally, Trump wins Michigan by just over 175,000 votes, receiving 51.9% of the two-party vote to Biden’s 48.1%.
That’s why the president’s cartoonish legal team focused on blocking the county’s certification, going as far as having Trump directly contact at least one member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.
