GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Former President Donald Trump will win Michigan’s electoral votes, the Related Press experiences. The decision from the AP got here shortly earlier than 1 p.m.
Determination Desk HQ on NewsNation and the Hill had already referred to as the presidency for Trump round 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. The Related Press referred to as the election for Trump later Wednesday morning.
“This is the third time he’s run for president. This is the third time he’s closed in Grand Rapids, he loves Michigan, he loves West Michigan, I mean, when he walked into that arena last night, I mean the decibel level from the crowd and the length of time that they were cheering. Obviously, they love him in West Michigan and I think that kind of enthusiasm speaks well for what we’re going to see tonight,” Pete Hoekstra, chairperson of the Michigan Republican Occasion stated at an election watch social gathering for U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Novi on Tuesday evening, nicely earlier than the race was referred to as.
Michigan was amongst seven key battleground states this election cycle, its 15 electoral votes coveted on the push to 270.
Each candidates spent loads of time in Michigan within the weeks main as much as the election and each had been right here throughout the final week, together with Trump’s last occasion of the marketing campaign in Grand Rapids that didn’t begin till after midnight Tuesday. The AP tracker of marketing campaign occasions reveals greater than 60 mixed visits from each campaigns to Michigan since March.
