I will pray too.
Saw this today...
Resistance in Trump country blooms in Michigan's northern counties
By Kathleen Gray Detroit Free Press (TNS) 7 hrs ago
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news...3d33bcff5.html
DETROIT — The billboard along M-115 — a two-lane highway that runs through forests and farmland from Clare to Cadillac, ending in Frankfort — is the first sign of many that northern Michigan is Trump country.
A larger-than-life image of President Donald Trump, flashing a smile and a thumb’s up, greets drivers: “Making America Great! We Love Our President,” the billboard proclaims.
Turn back to the 2016 presidential election map and the theme becomes even more stark, with all but one of Michigan’s 43 northern counties colored a deep red, signaling part of the path that Trump used to win Michigan by the slimmest of margins — 10,704 votes out of 4,799,284 cast. It was the first time that Michiganders had given a Republican the presidential win since 1988.
But two years later, something else is happening in northern Michigan as the Nov. 6 election looms. Transplants from southeast Michigan and Chicago, who choose to retire to the place where they spent so many vacations, are transforming the demographics of the region into a place where Democrats are hoping to make some inroads into typically Republican territory.
Those transplants are connecting with like-minded Democrats who have lived in the region for decades, but may have been reluctant to speak out too loudly in the otherwise conservative environment....