The fight over working class, primarily non-college educated voters could be determinative in a place like Michigan, a state synonymous with union voters
The 34-year-old United Auto Workers union member broke with eight years of supporting Barack Obama and Joe Biden and decided to vote for Donald Trump in 2016, believing the Republican's promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to towns like Monroe, a once-thriving union community that has been hammered by job cuts and plant closings.
Debbie Dingell, the late congressman's wife and now the congresswoman representing nearby Ann Arbor and areas north of Monroe County, lamented the fact that Monroe -- an area that she said once loved her husband and he loved back -- has moved so far right."We were always there and we knew everybody," Dingell recalled."And we went to church there and we went to the picnics there.
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