Trump opens Clinton County for the Democrats

[TexasTowelie]

(This is the first in an occasional look at whether Trump support is eroding in Michigan and how it could impact the 2020 election.)

For Marie Howe, the energy that lifted her campaign and may fuel the Democrats’ 2020 bid in the suburbanizing I-69 corridor in Clinton County is not hard to understand.

“For me, it’s simple — it’s what he says and what he does. A normal person would not accept what he says and what he does,” Howe said, referring to President Donald Trump.

Howe, a former legislative staffer, ran for the Clinton County Commission last fall as a Democrat and actually won her Bath Township precincts with 54% — while losing the overall district by 123 votes out of 5,833 cast. Her opponent, the incumbent Commissioner Adam Stacey, was saved by his performance in two much more rural townships north of Bath and DeWitt — Victor and Olive.

The inroads Democrats have made into the county could help imperil Trump’s chances to win Michigan next year and, with it, keep the White House.

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