Michigan

Four years after being among the Midwestern battlegrounds that delivered Trump's upset victory, Michigan, with its 16 electoral votes, has polled steadily in favor of Biden ahead of the November 3 election.


In the past five

elections

, the state had been consistently voting for a Democrat. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by a very narrow margin of just over 10,000 votes.



Analysts believe if Biden can mobilize African-American voters in the state's largest city, majority Black Detroit, it could go a long way to overcoming the fewer than 11,000-vote advantage Trump had in the state in 2016.

Both candidates are trying to convince voters they are best suited to revive the economy in the state, where the once-proud manufacturing base has suffered from decades of overseas outsourcing.