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President Trump holds an edge over Joe Biden (D) in battleground Michigan, a Restoration PAC/Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found. With the presidential election less than two weeks away, Trump has taken the lead in Michigan, leading by nearly two percentage points, garnering 46.7 percent to the former vice president’s 44.9 percent.

Joe Biden's campaign released ad on YouTube last week featuring bar owner Joe Malcoun who is co-owner of The Blind Pig, a popular Ann Arbor concert venue. In the ad, Malcoun blames Trump for widespread bar and restaurant closures saying Trump's handling of COVID-19 forced bar owners to close businesses. But ad doesn't mention Malcoun is also wealthy 'angel investor' in tech startups, and his social media shows his support for lockdown measures imposed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer - a Democrat who actually prolonged bar closures. After Malcoun's wealth was revealed, Biden campaign pulled ad from YouTube.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has caused hate crimes to increase “exponentially over the last four years.” Cooper said, “When you heard the crowd at President Trump’s rally over the weekend, chanting “lock her up” referring to you— I don’t know if it surprised you given all you have been through and come to expect— but the fact that that’s where this has sunk, and the president still continues to attack you in the wake of this is stunning

The Biden campaign is taking flack for a recent television ad featuring a struggling Michigan bar owner that the ad neglects to mention is actually an affluent veteran tech investor who donated to the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign. Joe Malcoun, who is introduced in the ad as the “co-owner” of The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Mich., backed Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stringent lockdown orders that kept businesses shuttered for months but says he blames President Trump’s administration for his business’s pandemic woes. the ad does not mention Malcoun’s other business ventures, including being an “angel investor” in several...

What the Michigan kidnap plot reveals about the FBI, the deep state, and the correlation of forces. “While the political rhetoric in our nation may at times be divisive I am encouraged by the united front our law enforcement community has displayed in response to this indescribable act of terror.”  That was Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, after the arrest of Brian Higgins, the 14th person to be charged in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Michiganders might expect an act of terror to involve the murder of innocents, such as the 14 slain by Syed Farook and...

An ad released by the Biden campaign released this past Thursday pleads with Michiganders to vote for Joe Biden or risk losing “a lot of” small businesses. The ad The remarks were made by Michigan entrepreneur Joe Malcoun in a one-minute ad that portrayed him as a struggling co-owner of a live music bar in Ann Arbour. Malcoun blamed “Trump’s COVID response” for the difficulties his and hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country face amid the pandemic. He warned that if Americans do not back Biden “a lot of restaurants and bars that have been mainstays for...

Former Gov. Rick Snyder in an op-ed published by USA Today on Thursday endorsed Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, making waves as a Republican who isn’t backing incumbent President Donald Trump. He’s one of a number of Republicans who are speaking out against Trump’s reelection, according to Jeff Timmer, a senior advisor with The Lincoln Project, a group of disillusioned Republicans working to defeat Trump and his supporters in Congress. “There’s never been a time like this when so many members of an incumbent president’s party have said ’vote for the other guy,’” Timmer said on a taping of WKAR’s...

LANSING, Mich. - Governor Gretchen Whitmer met with White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx in Lansing to discuss Michigan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday. “I was grateful for the opportunity to meet with Dr. Birx as we continue to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan. This virus remains a serious threat to our families, our frontline workers, and our economy, and what’s needed is more support at the federal level to help us expand testing, ensure everyone wears a mask while in public, support our frontline workers and small businesses, and save lives,” said Governor...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is preparing to announce the reopening of a slew of Michigan industries – including theaters, gyms, bowling centers and ice rinks – according to a report from the Detroit Free Press. The announcement could come as soon as Wednesday and the reopening would happen after Labor Day, per the Free Press. **SNIP** Leaders in Michigan’s bowling and gym industries have recently lightened up on the heat they’ve publicly put on the Whitmer administration. The Michigan Fitness Club Association had planned a boot camp demonstration on the Capitol lawn on Tuesday, Sept. 1, but postponed it late Monday...

I apologize for the vanity. I've been a freeper for well more than ten years and have never written one but I have to pull the trigger today.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Democratic National Convention is getting underway Monday in a way we have never seen before. The largely virtual event this week will feature dozens of high-profile Democrats stumping for the Biden-Harris ticket, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday. “I think what you’re going to hear from Gov. Whitmer tonight is that in order for Democrats to deliver for people, in order to have that chance, we’ve go to continue to focus on what’s important to people,” Whitmer’s Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist told News 8 Monday morning. “People right now are concerned with health,...