GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Former President Donald Trump will win Michigan’s electoral votes, the Associated Press reports.
The call from the AP came shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Decision Desk HQ on NewsNation and the Hill had already called the presidency for Trump around 1:30 a.m. The Associated Press called the election for Trump later Wednesday morning.
“This is the third time he’s run for president. This is the third time he’s closed in Grand Rapids, he loves Michigan, he loves West Michigan, I mean, when he walked into that arena last night, I mean the decibel level from the crowd and the length of time that they were cheering. Obviously they love him in West Michigan and I think that kind of enthusiasm speaks well for what we’re going to see tonight,” Pete Hoekstra, chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party said at an election watch party for U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Novi on Tuesday night, well before the race was called.
Michigan was among seven key battleground states this election cycle, its 15 electoral votes coveted on the push to 270.
Both candidates spent plenty of time in the state in the weeks leading up to the election and both were here within the last week, including Trump’s final event of the campaign in Grand Rapids that didn’t start until after midnight Tuesday. The AP tracker of campaign events shows more than 60 combined visits from both campaigns to Michigan since March.
It was a tight race in Michigan, with the two most recent polls for WOOD TV8 — one from EPIC-MRA released Friday and one from Emerson College Polling released Monday — showing a statistical dead heat.