How Democrats Can Take Back Michigan in 2020

Both nights of the Democratic debates in Detroit posed a fundamental question for the Democratic Party: How far left is too far left to beat President Trump? That’s especially relevant in the upper Midwest, where Trump managed to flip Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan in 2016.
Congressman Dan Kildee understands how to win in a red state. The Democrat represents nearby Flint, Michigan - a Democratic stronghold that Trump chipped away at in 2016, winning 42.59% of the vote versus Mitt Romney’s 35.24% in Genesee County. The water crisis made national news and hit residents of all races. In the past few months, the town has become a must-stop for presidential candidates like Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, Sen. Cory Booker, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who have all made visits in just the past few weeks.
Kildee came to Detroit to hear which of them has a plan that might galvanize voters in Flint and across Michigan. He told VICE News ahead of the Wednesday evening debate that candidates need to speak directly to voters’ anxieties.
"I think there's a misperception about what's happening in the economy. You know, we hear all this stuff about the economy is great, unemployment's low, the Dow is at whatever. People are still afraid. They're nervous about the job they might have now, but they don't think they make enough money to support their families,” he said.
Kildee bluntly assessed that Michiganders “can see through bullshit really easily."
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[@Junior128100]

By playing the "Race card" or "Orange man bad"

[@rachelmcadamslover]

Trump plays the race card 24/7 and yet had high approval rat6ings among republicans. Trump literally ran on "hillary bad"

[@rangereric18]

"Michiganders can see right through BS."

[@rickiex]

To be fair, he only won because no one turned out to be forced to vote for Hillary, everyone here wanted bernie. The DNC cheated the primary so they can electect Hillary to fight against Trump, and paid for it dearly

[@rickiex]

@RUhere4the TRIGGERING with that name, why would anyone bother replying lmao. *Blocked*

[@alexnowicki286]

rickiex bro Michigan did not want Bernie apparently you’re not from Michigan, Michigan is blue collar state and Bernie wanted to get rid of automotive jobs and factories, he was only popular with young people

[@rickiex]

@@alexnowicki286 bro, I've worked in the automotive business for years, and sad to tell you, but it ain't coming back, at least not at the level that it was. The markets are pointing at China, which has a booming middle class, while the US's middle class is dying.

[@baseballkenny8063]

Yeah we didn't want him majority of those who voted him in were the people he lied to and they fell for a con man

[@aadempse00]

"For some reason" means you still don't get it.

[@MrBannerWolf]

Hey Vice hows the massive layoffs and imitate closer of your company treating you?

[@Sun-Tzu-]

Apparently they're not fazed by it.

[@slappy1234567]

😄😅😂

[@Angry_Ranger]

They're going down and they know it

[@starcherry6814]

I’m from Michigan It’s easy to get Democratic voters in the Flint and Detroit area But good luck with the rest of the State 🤷‍♀️

[@fathead8933]

Star Cherry exactly. Only reason Whitmer is governor is because weed was on the ballot. Guess what’s not on the ballot in 2020

[@Monk-Amani.]

It easy to get Flint and Detroit area citizens to claim an alliance with the Democratic party, but actual voting turnout is another story. The rest of the State as the nation, slept the last election. Too many Sleepwalkers have awakened to hand the Electoral College the pillows. Hindsight 2020

[@Monk-Amani.]

@@fathead8933 : Marijuana isn't, but America's future is. Not that it matters. We're all going down together. Hindsight 2020

[@stevezrofsky8577]

@Buttercup a major part of rhe population is on welfare of one type or the other. DETROIT and Flint are dead cities. Better off paying everyone to just leave. What kind of industry can u have with 8 month winters. Whn they can go to Kentucky for half the price.

[@BST-ri6gf]

Voting democratic in flint is like voting to drink that poo poo water

[@juanrubio6132]

Vice video titles should be "Dont vote orange man, please."

[@markmcglathery8542]

What are the policies the dems support besides impeach Trump????

[@meetstepsisalcoholicdouche6167]

Immigrants before Americans. Michigan is being loaded up with Somalis, now Congolese. Although many people have lost they’re jobs and in bad shape here. They figure just fill the place up with immigrants. Great policy. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/3287895002

[@bloodwargaming3662]

I mean their policies are better than the "tax payer give out to rich " policies by republicans

[@philipjfry1383]

Till one of the original founders of vice created proud boys. How far vice has drifted from it's original creation.

[@mikrod9157]

Shout out to all the automakers employees in Michigan much respect

[@LionMartell]

I wonder what Vice thinks still trying to go woke on every single video

[@thejquinn]

No reason not to since HBO cut them

[@seahog1911]

You should be called Lice News because whenever you report on a story people are left scratching their heads💩

[@tommymaestro4099]

Funny, in both debates not a single mention of the Russia hoax or the Mueller disaster ? 😆😝

[@jakesimpson1042]

I'll tell you how to win...DON'T focus on race and social justice.

[@stevezrofsky8577]

Or produce some good paying jobs. You know the ones that left because dem taxes were too high.

[@jakesimpson1042]

Steve Zrofsky Exactly!!!

[@stevezrofsky8577]

@@jakesimpson1042 Do you work on engines. I use to work for the National Mustang Racers Association. Just think everything car relayed went to Ohio from Detroit. 25 dollar an hour union jobs gone thousands of them.

[@brettfafata3017]

Democrats, please keep talking about reparations and free everything for illegals. That will definitely help you take back the rust belt.

[@ericbagster7754]

We should really support them doing that and make it front and center, even tho it kinda allready is

[@cryptobunny2506]

Does Vice ever get more upvotes then down?

[@Sun-Tzu-]

Most of the time.

[@muhammadabadi6410]

Democrats accomplishing something is a wish that will never be fulfilled

[@marshalmontez6795]

There’s no way not in a million years get ready to go to prison a lot of people will go down for treason.

[@ZeroSanity626]

Make and advocate for policies that benefit blue collar workers, such as: railing against NAFTA 2.0 and candidates that supported NAFTA and TPP, Medicare for all, etc. Or just don’t be a corporate democrat. Either works

[@AA69ist]

"Don't be Socialist"

[@brettfafata3017]

@RUhere4the TRIGGERING Accelerationism is a meme

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@RUhere4the TRIGGERING that's what the south said in the 1860s remember money wins wars, last time I red states were extremely poor.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@RUhere4the TRIGGERING because it's lower taxes

[@BRM202]

If Amash runs as a Libertarian. That would take conservative votes away. trump won the state by only 10k.

[@paulgibby6932]

I believe Dan Kildee "woke up" when Jordon Chariton's team at StatusCoup kept coming back to Flint and probing about the racially motivated water disaster there. He sounds reasonable. But I recall Jordan had to keep pressing until Kildee finally got going.

[@kotaowens6978]

How to take back Michigan? Bernie Sanders.

[@alexnowicki286]

Grant Owens please be joking

[@baseballkenny8063]

More like Elizabeth Warren

[@seanhunter4297]

Grant Owens We'll see! I want Trump exposed for the vile bastard he is FIRST. I hope it won't be too late by that time! They have got our (democrats) intentions ALL WRONG. Above, I explained in brief, what DEM SOC. is.....and how the lack of educated, informed voters leads to this TYRANNY.. Conman Donnie really got to almost half the voting population. Y'all need to WAKE UP, admit you were DUPED, switch candidates from Trump back to the Dem side...instead of trying to "save face" like your stupid ass dictator who thinks he knows "more than the generals" & "more than the doctors about the coronavirus". STUPID a-holes comment on here.

[@matthewbaese5472]

This video has 6300 views as of August 1. I bet 75% are trump supporters looking at how crazy the left has gotten, and laughing

[@josephikrakowski75]

If its anything like the state of Baltimore

[@seanhunter4297]

Baltimore is a city!

[@starjay5355]

They will lose 2020 Haha

[@blueheron8692]

They cant

[@stevezrofsky8577]

Went to Deyroit in the yr 2000. Drove there from Los Angeles. Detroit was so old, so blue collar with a total lack of blue collar jobs. Ford left to ohio. So did smaller manufacturers. Which also means the entire i ndustry that supports car manufacturing left also. To a lower taxed OHIO. In the year 2000 detroit was finished. If you have seen hardcore pawn. Then u have a window into what detroit has to offer. Philly was crap also. Chicago was next to crap. Baltimore was the worst city i have had the pleasure to drive thru. DC wasnt much better. I loved Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, milwaukee. So many major cities out there where their industries have left for better tax rates and major ports. Nothing comes out of the great lakes anymore. The Mississippi was this natiins bloodline, and the great lakes. Been a long time since that was true. Now everything comes into Long Beach CA, from china.. redistributiin of wealth did not mean from our rich to our poor. It meant take from rich nations and give to poor nations. Not individuals. But nations. Honestly this state and this natiin needs the democrat party to either conform to doing good by Americans, or they need to pack up shop and get on to a communist nation. Democrat ran cities are all folding. The Democrat party need to be dis banned and never mantioned again. Many politicins need to be arrested and prosecuted for sedition, treason, pedophilia, human trafficing and drug and firearms trafficing. Have had enough. When will those that vote democrat clean out their own party. Or is it too little too late to even save them.

[@stevezrofsky8577]

@D Gh then name them like I did. Blah blah blah.

[@Vampybattie]

Lol I'm gonna vote for Trump I didn't last time 2016 cause I thought Trump was racist but I can see through the bs

[@seanhunter4297]

crappy firedog He IS racist. Read art of the deal.....said blacks "weren't fit to clean his toilets". He EXPLOITS women & latinos as well....ignores the poor....tries to run ROUGHSHOD over the middle class & gives tax cuts to the UBER WEALTHY. GET INFORMED. Stop believing Trump's crazy tweets & conspiracy theories. Sounds like you drank the Russian Kool-Aid!

[@PatriotsFanSince92]

Sean Hunter you’re the prejudiced racist, actually

[@marksanderson8164]

Trump 2020

[@keldonboone2992]

Can republicans hold Michigan? I know I’m voting for trump in 2020

[@TheHatorihanzoe]

they didnt say anything

[@jonathanpalmquist4894]

Maybe they should have asked Rashida Tlaib (from Detroit) instead of this bozo

[@seanhunter4297]

I would agree with that one!!!

[@jordanodom1365]

Am I tripping? Or did he literally not answer one question she asked 😑

[@realreally5927]

Trump will take Michigan.... no problem

[@leopinzon8423]

Bernie took Michigan in 2016 and he will take it again! #Bernie2020

[@codywaite3765]

Dang the crack must have gotten worse up there since I left.

[@GMarieBehindTheMask]

What a drab place 😐

[@TopShot501st]

How far left is too far left to win? Anything left of Yang/ Tulsi/ Biden.

[@Sun-Tzu-]

There is no such thing as left wing in America. The American far left is the European center right.

[@WheresTheWall]

This should have been uploaded yesterday, Vice.

[@trajanz9557]

... he said absolutely nothing with so many words lmao

[@jakecampbell2530]

Don't try to take my beautiful state. Trump 2020

[@ramlinshoes]

Don’t say anything concrete. Speak to real change.

[@seanhunter4297]

Hey, we don't know what your problems are if a) you don't voice them and b) you don't TELL US...so how can we FIX your problems without the information?

[@killacamfoo]

Not happening.

[@claytondelanie1193]

Moon Bats News

[@YFZMoto]

I Know BY GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF YEA...............

[@RawMaterialENT]

Easy answer.. Bernie sanders

[@jasonmurphy9855]

Moar effin falseflaggery??

[@heavymetalbassist5]

go home Biden

[@hannesH3]

Hey Democrats, you should talk more about race, that'll win them over!

[@seanhunter4297]

Hey don't lump all Dems into 1 boat. I get your point, 3 elderly Caucasian males have very little sense of what it's like to live as a poor person of ANY COLOR!!! And TRUMP ass certainly makes life harder for US as well as the middle class. Republicans are all tone deaf or apathetic to our problems.

[@lukea9873]

trump 2020

[@baseballkenny8063]

$20 says u actually voted his dumb ass in huh???

[@Blakhawk1703]

lol ok Trump 2020 it is then..... smh....

[@lotevalencia]

Lol keep dreaming, VICE IS SO MAD 😡 #MAGA

[@thelazy6925]

That meant nothing at all lol.

[@stankers4952]

Lol... Trying to figure out why people are sick of losers.. and trying to make a plan to make losers appealing.

[@bigtexas6943]

I know the states who flipped for Trump, all wished they hadn’t.

[@chancekromer4269]

Trump 2020 #fourmoreyears

[@Inazarab]

Warren 2020!

[@skullrag5528]

i like hentai

[@maxthesax2807]

I love how right wing the Democratic Party is when they consider moderate social democrats “far right”

[@seanhunter4297]

American Red 1917 We do NOT consider them "far right". We consider them DIVISIVE and NEGATIVE & pandering on fears/anxiety....JUST LIKE TRUMP.

[@GlenCychosz]

The real question is who will be the Democrat that looses to Trump in 2020.

[@augustine1977]

Liz Landers has some nice teddies. Michigan stays red btw.

[@tommy-jy5ig]

Putin (Trump/Pence) --- 2020!! 4 more years!!! MA(USSR)GA!!!