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This week’s agenda is Presidential Politics in Michigan:
- New polling shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a statistical tie. We’ll be joined in a moment by EPIC-MRA’s Bernie Porn.
- The candidates are focusing on Michigan. Trump makes two visits, saying we’re on the verge of World War III. Kamala Harris will revive a longstanding tradition of a Democratic candidate Metro Detroit rally on Labor Day.
- Michigan Republicans continue to embarrass themselves, this time with a convention that features the forced ejection of their former chair.
- Bobby Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein will all be on Michigan’s presidential ballot even though RFK Jr. wants out
- More than 200 former Trump staffers and leaders of the presidential campaigns of John McCain and MItt Romney are endorsing Kamala Harris – an unprecedented political repudiation by the people who know Trump the best
We have two guests on this week’s podcast:
Pollster Bernie Porn leads us through the numbers in his company’s latest polling in Michigan. It’s generally good-but-not-great news for Democrats in a campaign that’s very, very tight.
And one of the founders of Michigan’s first citizen-run redistricting process reflects on the apparent end of the first redistricting cycle, seven-and-a-half years after Voters Not Politicians kicked off its historic campaign to amend Michigan’s constitution is now complete. We talk with the leader of the grassroots group, Jamie Lyons-Eddy. Joining that chat is our producer, Walt Sorg, another of the founders of VNP and co-author of the constitutional amendment.
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