In Michigan and the US, Election 2024 is all about uncertainty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "Kimberly Sadler, 54, of Highland Township, attended a rally with Trump's vice presidential pick, U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, last month in Waterford and said she expects Trump will win but expects it to be a nail-biter.
58% : "That's Trump.
50% : But antipathy toward Trump, his agenda and his habit of demonizing immigrants and rejecting political norms, runs as high as his support, if not higher.
49% : No matter what the outcome is after the election, there is no doubt that it will have been largely shaped by the amazingly successful -- his critics would say infamous, if not criminal -- career of Trump in terms of remaking the Republican Party and American politics.
47% : That's favored Democrats in some recent elections, but when Trump is on the ballot, his base has, over two presidential elections, turned out in droves.
42% : "He was still leaning toward Trump.
42% : Trump is a different kettle of fish.
40% : They've also worked to tie Trump with a manifesto, much of it written by former Trump administration advisers, to upend the federal bureaucracy and rebuild it around their ultra-conservative agenda.
40% : Certainly, Trump in his first term attempted to follow through on many of his stated campaign promises on immigration, trade and health care, though he often ran into interference from the courts, Congress, or the laws that govern the executive branch.
38% : Given that record -- and the fact that she has courted support from Republicans who have broken with Trump -- there is reason to believe she would try to balance certain centrist goals (controlling illegal immigration on the border, while arguing for a path to citizenship for those here legally; supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia) with other more progressive ones (raising taxes on corporations and wealthier Americans, enshrining abortion rights nationally).
32% : Even a simple majority can help: Trump was able to pass the 2017 tax cuts with a Republican Congress and Biden managed to win passage of a bipartisan infrastructure bill, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act.
30% : "I'm fully torn because as much as I want America to be first, I'm not the biggest fan of Trump," Hubbs said.
27% : Meanwhile, Democrats have leaned heavily into the fact that it was Trump who appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who voted in 2022 to roll back abortion protections, throwing the issue back to the states, which resulted in Democratic gains in Michigan and elsewhere.
27% : Trump has attempted to distance himself from both issues but he ran as a strict abortion opponent before and some of the so-called Project 2025 positions are ones he has articulated himself.
23% : As it is, she's running a historic campaign that has attempted to mesh the hope and change agenda of former President Barack Obama with Biden's message to middle-class voters that Trump represents an existential threat to democracy.
22% : She has campaigned as a pragmatic alternative to Trump but has not forcefully split from the Biden administration.
21% : Probably smart to remember, those claims after the 2020 election -- promoted by Trump, in an effort to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden -- were false, so don't necessarily jump to conclusions forwarded by partisan actors without supporting evidence.
18% : He had been debating between Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but Kennedy has dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.
12% : And Harris may have to contend with some Muslim and Arab American voters, as well as some progressives, who are angry enough at the Biden administration for not demanding an immediate Israeli cease-fire in Gaza and an arms embargo that they refuse to vote for Harris, even though Trump is, if anything, more supportive of Israeli authority.
9% : If Biden, beset by questions about his age and mental acumen after a disastrous debate with Trump in June, hadn't stepped aside as the Democratic nominee in July, Harris wouldn't be here.
8% : Illegal immigration swelled on the Southern border after Biden rolled back some of Trump's restrictions; it has been a winning issue for Trump, even as he has misled voters about its impact on crime and other details.

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