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    Michigan's Minority Voters: Lukewarm On Biden, But 'Damn Sure Don't Want Trump'

    Donald Trump won the state four years ago in part because turnout dipped among Black and brown voters in key Democratic strongholds. Joe Biden is trying to energize these voters, but some remain wary.
    by Asma Khalid Oct 10, 2020 4 minutes
    Joe Biden shops at Three Thirteen, a Detroit apparel store on Sept. 9. Biden is hoping Black and brown voters can help propel him to victory in Michigan, a state President Trump narrowly won in 2016.

    Michael Coleman didn't vote in the 2016 presidential election. But this year, on a chilly fall day around lunchtime, the 69-year-old came to the Detroit Department of Elections to hand-deliver his ballot roughly a month before Election Day. He said he didn't want to take the risk of it getting lost in the mail.

    "I don't like neither one of them, but I voted for Biden, you know," Coleman said, his voice trailing off.

    "Trump — he's not good. He won't denounce white supremacists; he has disbanded the pandemic team," Coleman added. "I'm not real political, but for lack of a better word, he's an a**hole."

    Coleman didn't love his choices in 2016, and he doesn't love them this year

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