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Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan

Democrats on edge in critical Michigan amid fears of waning enthusiasm

Kamala stands in front of the American flag with hands open
Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at the Redford Fire Department on 4 October 2024 in Redford, Michigan. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s supporters do not pitch up at his rallies expecting to hear policy speeches or even the truth. Mostly they go for the comfort of distractions from hard realities and the allure of false promises to revive the past.

But some of the loudest cheers at Trump’s recent rally in Saginaw, Michigan, came in response to a claim the former US president’s supporters could believe, when he said election polls were swinging his way in the battleground state and that Kamala Harris’s “honeymoon period” was over.

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