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Six weeks in Saginaw: the bellwether county in the bellwether state – podcast
The Guardian US writer Chris McGreal reports from his time in Saginaw, Michigan – the county that has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008 – to find out which way America might vote on 5 November
Saginaw in Michigan is a bellwether county. It has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008, voting for Barack Obama twice, for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and, by a sliver, for Joe Biden over Trump last time round.
It was once, like the rest of Michigan, safe Democrat territory – part of a “blue wall” stretching into neighbouring Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But decades of industrial decline – car factories closing and job losses in their thousands – have worn away some of that support.
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