According to a report from New York Times, Donald Trump’s obsessive attacks on the Democratic female leadership of Michigan have become a motivating factor for women in the rust-belt state to turn on the president and will likely hand the state to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in November.
Noting that the president won Michigan in 2016 by a slim 10,704 votes — his smallest margin of victory in the country — the Times explains that the president’s attacks on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, has resonated with voters in the state — and not in a good way.
According to the Times, the president is currently trailing in Michigan polls to Biden, and Democrats in the state believe the president’s attacks on the three women — who have strongly pushed back against the president’s sniping — is hurting his chances of getting back in the game in the state. Continue reading.