Macomb

At the time, she sought $11 million in damages, but a Macomb County judge awarded her $25,000 instead.

He increased his vote share in rural areas as well as in Macomb County, home to many working-class voters in the Detroit suburbs.

“He’s not the status quo,” said Dave Duncan, a 58-year-old salesman from Macomb Township, Mich., who supports Trump.

Still, Alysa Diebolt, the chair of the Democratic Party in Macomb County, which Trump won in 2020, said more could always be done to turn out apathetic voters.

Trump carried Macomb County by just 8 percentage points in 2020, a far smaller margin than in rural counties such as Osceola, where Trump commanded more than 72% of votes, and Gratiot, where the former president defeated Biden by more than 28 percentage points.