Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will prove key to the presidential election outcome and Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro and Tony Evers are under pressure to deliver for their party
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer: It was her idea to organise a tri-state tour Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Photograph: Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Farmers’ Market in Flint has been one of the brighter enterprises to flourish in a city ravaged for many decades by the industrial downturn that created the Rust Belt.
Without pausing to question why any governor would randomly decide to insult a sizeable slice of her electorate, protesters assembled outside her home and Michigan’s Catholic bishops issued a rebuke, stating that whether the intent was there or not, the video “had an offensive impact”. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. 'Think about this. A guy who wants to lead the greatest nation on earth keeps attacking his fellow Americans. This is a great country.' Photograph: Justin Merriman/AFP
“We know that this election is going to come down to a handful of states. Our three states are going to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome of this election. Which means our work over the next 19 days is going to be more important than ever.” Pennsylvania is similarly delicately poised, with the poll needle wavering from week to week as Harris holds on to a negligible lead – the FiveThirtyEight polling site has her ahead of Trump in Michigan by just 0.7 percentage points.
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