'Trump — he's not good. He won't denounce white supremacists, he has disbanded the pandemic team,' a Michigan voter says. 'I'm not real political, but for lack of a better word, he's an asshole.' If getting Trump out means voting for Biden, he'll do it.
But after seeing Donald Trump in power for nearly four years, activists and voters say politics feels more perilous. COVID-19 has hit communities like Detroit particularly hard; a disproportionate number of Black voters have lost a relative or known someone personally diagnosed with COVID. For them, the 2020 election is a referendum on the president's response to a crisis that has already claimed the lives of more than 213,000 Americans.
As a teacher in the era of COVID, issues like public education and health care are also important to her. Her concerns are common among progressive voters, who say Trump is a symptom of the social and political unrest in the country, rather than the cause. "If [Trump] won again, then there would be no resistance to a progressive candidate next time," says Detroit resident Michael Cushman."If [Trump] won again, then there would be no resistance to a progressive candidate next time," says Detroit resident Michael Cushman.His goal for the Michigan People's Campaign this year is to tap into a network of 100,000 people through family and friend connections.
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