In Michigan, Trump and Biden’s two solitudes clash over race and the pandemic - The Globe and Mail

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“He has caused people to die because of his attitude,” said Monique Baker McCormick, 50, who lost two cousins to the virus, one of whom spent four months on a ventilator.

Many said they did not believe the pandemic was that bad.

“They want to make it seem worse than it is,” he said, giving voice to an online conspiracy theory.

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“We know the ancestors are relying on us to not let them down when there is so much at stake,” she said as the small crowd, masked and physically distanced in front of her, shouted its approval.

It is an open question, however, whether the Democrats will be able to get voters out to the polls without their traditional ground game.

“We’ve been able to have people all over the country joining in,” said Mr.

To go from picking cotton to picking presidents is something to celebrate,” he said.

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If he hadn’t been a criminal, he wouldn’t have been put in that position,” said Steve Skuras, 61, a machinery salesman in suburban Macomb County.

“He’s been in a battle against the media, the Democrats, and he’s still having to deal with all the foreign leaders,” he said.

That didn’t make a whole lot of sense to us,” he said at a community-organized rally for Mr.

Trump outside of Chardam Gear Company, an aerospace-parts factory north of Detroit.

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Mike Brzoska, Chardam’s owner, said the economic shutdown caused by the pandemic cost him 55 per cent of his business.

While roughly 100 Trump supporters, including a woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty, waved flags at traffic on a stretch of fast-food restaurants and strip malls, a group of young people pulled up down the block to hold up signs in support of Mr.

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Bland said someone put a large, white cardboard box directly next to a ballot drop box outside the church last week.

The package, which was disposed of by the police bomb squad, turned out to be harmless, but he said he believed it was intended to give the impression of being an explosive.

“There are people who are trying to deter people wanting to vote by doing intimidation,” he said.

Trump made light of the kidnap plot against Ms.

People are entitled to say ‘Maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn’t,’” he said.

Vendors sell merchandise outside the Trump rally in Lansing.

He said he would challenge people who tried to vote without identification.

“The only way the Democrats are going to win is by cheating,” he said.

Trump wins another term.

I’ve experienced racism in my life, but never to this extent,” he said.

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