Why the Race Is So Close In the Rust Belt

OCT 28, 202438 MIN
The Assignment with Audie Cornish

Why the Race Is So Close In the Rust Belt

OCT 28, 202438 MIN

Description

Wisconsin and Michigan, the big bricks of the former Blue Wall, are considered must-wins for Kamala Harris. They’re also both toss-ups at this point. This week, John King talks to voters in Milwaukee and Detroit who have a lot in common: They’re both Black men, about the same age, born and raised in their respective Rust Belt cities, and steeped in a culture that always voted for Democrats. One is voting for Harris. The other is going for Trump. Their choices — and how they got there — tell us a lot about the very tight election math in the upper Midwest. 

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