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    Win back Trump voters or rally the base? Democrats wrestle with 2020 strategy in Michigan

    by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times May 08, 2019 5 minutes

    DETROIT - Among the battleground states that will decide the 2020 presidential election, few make Democrats wince like Michigan.

    The Wolverine State in 2016 handed Republicans the slimmest of victories - just shy of 11,000 votes - joining with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to stamp a Donald Trump-shaped hole in the Democrats' supposed Midwestern firewall.

    Hillary Clinton lost 12 suburban and rural Michigan counties that voted for Barack Obama twice. And in Wayne County, a Democratic bastion that includes Detroit's predominantly black community, she won about 75,000 fewer votes than Obama did in 2012.

    "That is an ongoing nightmare that we continue to have to relive," said Jonathan Kinloch, a longtime Democratic activist from Detroit. "It stays in our face."

    While local and national Democrats alike

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