Gary Reed, former director of the Michigan Republican Party announced on Tuesday he will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris this election, taking issue with the former president's fiscal discipline and "xenophobia." The public letter was a welcome endorsement for the Harris campaign which sees Michigan as one of three three "blue wall" states that could define the election next week, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
On Friday, two new polls showed the Democrat with a slim lead in Michigan, although analysts have been quick to point out that the race will probably go down to the wire. One of them, by EPIC-MRA for The Detroit Free Press, showed Harris up by 3 points, 48 percent to 45 percent, revealing other insights such as the fact that the Democratic nominee's support among Black voters has gone up by 18 points since August, with the poll showing her outpacing Trump 87% to 5% among that demographic.
