I will always think that the two campaigns were working with internals that were closer to reality than the MSM provided. First, why did Hillary cancel her fireworks show a couple of days before the election if she was so sure it was hers? Secondly, I believe Trump’s internals showed that he could take MI if he did more in Grand Rapids. He changed his last stop from WI to MI and had just under 20K people waiting in an airport hangar for him at 1 AM in cold weather. THAT is support! Both had working internals that knew the real story, not the MSM. The press NEVER understood those Trump rallies (the modern whistle-stop campaign)and all those people willing to walk through muck just to see the man. That effort was NEVER built into the polls and many of those folks were first-time voters so never on a polling list.
Yeah they cancelled the rally in WI and instead went to MI because their data showed that WI was now safe and a sure thing; they ran the #’s and even they couldn’t believe it but when they ran them again it was true. I remember here a lot of folks were panicked, thinking that meant WI was lost and that’s why Trump was headed for MI, to try to make up for it, and how futile it all was. But he went to MI cause they knew they could, and would, take it.