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Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan

In Michigan, attack ads are inescapable. Are they changing any minds?

a man on a screen on a stage
Donald Trump on a screen in Flint, Michigan, on 17 September 2024. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

There is almost no escape. One minute, you’re watching the spin of a wheel on a game show and a few seconds later, Jeffrey Epstein is staring out of the screen with a youthful Donald Trump at his side.

What follows is yet another of the election ads bombarding viewers in Saginaw, Michigan, or any other place likely to decide the outcome of next week’s presidential election. The attack ad goes on to remind viewers that Epstein was accused of sex trafficking and abusing girls as young as 14 years old, and that Trump spent a lot of time in his company.

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