Donald Trump has pulled ahead of President Joe Biden in must-win Michigan as voters remain pessimistic about the U.S. economy, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll shows.
Trump led Biden 46% to 42% in the poll conducted Nov. 27-Dec. 5, after they were tied in the same survey done in October and early November. Trump’s lead is just within the poll’s margin of error of 4 percentage points. The former president now leads in the monthly tracking poll of all seven swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election.
Biden has lost support among suburban women in Michigan and voters aged 18 to 34. And his inability to improve his standing with union households — despite being the first sitting president to join a picket line, backing the United Auto Workers — is helping Trump, the poll found.
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Losing Michigan would be devastating for Biden’s reelection hopes. In 2020 he won in part by beating Trump by 154,188 votes in the state. And Michigan had been equally critical to Trump in 2016, when he