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LZ Granderson: Why is Biden spending time in Michigan's Saginaw County? Here's what he told me

President Joe Biden is greeted by Hurley Coleman III and Hurley Coleman IV while arriving for a campaign event with supporters at Pleasant View Golf Course in Saginaw, Michigan, on March 14, 2024.

SAGINAW, Mich. — Five states went from red to blue in 2020. My home state, Michigan, is one of them. Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania are the others.

Within that fab five, just eight counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 flipped for President Joe Biden in 2020. One such county is Saginaw, a metro area in Michigan of about 200,000. So, if you're wondering why Biden would make two campaign stops here in the rain last week, that's part of the answer.

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