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Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan

Post-election in Saginaw, Michigan, the swing county in the swing state that swung right

A person holds a Harris Walz sign
A Harris Walz event in Saginaw, Michigan, on 17 October 2024. Photograph: Rick Findler/The Guardian

Saginaw county’s Democrats were sure that the lessons had been learned and that this time it would be different.

The Kamala Harris campaign flooded this bellwether county in the crucial battleground state of Michigan with canvassers and advertising, a reaction to Hillary Clinton’s complacent and, as it turned out, misguided belief that she had the area sewn up in 2016.

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