Trump said Detroit and Michigan are run at all levels by Democrats. Michigan's Gov is Republican.

[Native]

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/762692977621921793

He's such an idiot. Nothing like insulting the state you're delivering your speech in!

[MichiganVote]

1. Michigan is all republican all the time and its gotten this state absolutely no where.

Flint//Lead//Snyder//Emergency managers//Do Nothing Legislature

That in itself spoken to a crowd in Michigan should prove he is completely stupid-stupid-stupid

[AgadorSparticus]

2. Lmao!! Not surprising since that little Crimean snafu.

He just makes up shit in his head as he goes along. Reality be damned.

[Doodley]

3. The fact-free candidate opens his mouth again.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. ^^This^^

[Hortensis]

13. Lol. Great! Hope his MI admirers are pleased by his

careful attention to them (not!) since MI would be crucial to him.

Would be: Poll today has H 43%, T 32%, J 8%, S 3%.

[Motley13]

5. the dim wit probably never heard about the repug gov poisoning the people of Flint

any thing that comes out of his mouth is idiocy, bigly.

[Wounded Bear]

6. And it has been the Repub governor...

appointing "City Managers" that have been screwing things up.

[MichDem10]

7. Reality

Governor - Republican
Lt. Governor - Republican
Attorney General - Republican
Secretary of State - Republican
State House of Representatives - Republican
State Senate - Republican

Never let facts get in the way of a Trump story!

[Orsino]

8. Therefore they aren't.

That was easy.

[CobaltBlue]

9. Michigan governors are typically from party opposite U.S. president

Since 1978, and with the only exception the first, 1990 election of John Engler, the gubernatorial winners in Michigan have been candidates from the party opposite the incumbent U.S. president.

• 1978 (Jimmy Carter, Democrat): William Milliken, Republican
• 1982 (Ronald Reagan, Republican): James Blanchard, Democrat
• 1986 (Ronald Reagan, Republican): James Blanchard, Democrat
• 1990 (George Bush, Republican): John Engler, Republican
• 1994 (Bill Clinton, Democrat): John Engler, Republican
• 1998 (Bill Clinton, Democrat): John Engler, Republican
• 2002 (George W. Bush, Republican): Jennifer Grahholm, Democrat
• 2006 (George W. Bush, Republican): Jennifer Grahholm, Democrat
• 2010 (Barack Obama, Democrat): Rick Snyder, Republican
• 2014 (Barack Obama, Democrat): Rick Snyder, Republican


Why this pattern? Because of the midterms. Michigan (since 1978), Pennsylvania (since 1938), Wyoming (since 1958), Kansas (since 1990), and Arizona (since 1990) are just five states—and there are more—which have almost always been electing governors from the party opposite the president. That's because the opposition party has been turning out more participation in the midterm elections.

[axiom3]

10. Trump can forget about trying to take Michigan

That state, like Pennsylvania, is pyrite for the GOP. The unions in that state are very powerful, and will work together to defeat him. That is why no Republican Presidential candidate has won Michigan since the 1988 election, which was an election where even PA and CA voted red.

Which isn't to say that MI isn't a crucial state for Trump. With states like SC within reach of HRC, he'll need to flip some blue states to have a chance, which is pretty much a lost cause at this point.

[CobaltBlue]

11. axiom3—Which won’t happen

In 2012, North Carolina was 6 points more Republican than the nation. Georgia was 12 points more Republican than the nation. Arizona was 13 points more Republican than the nation.

Meanwhile, also in 2012, Michigan was 6 points more Democratic than the nation.

If Donald Trump loses this 2016 presidential election, and North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona are states he fails to hold, there is no opportunity for him in Michigan.

In 2012, Michigan was 12 points more Democratic than North Carolina. Michigan was 17 points more Democratic than Georgia. Michigan was 18 points more Democratic than Arizona.

If there is just one state Donald Trump fails to hold in the 2016 Republican column…he loses. More than one state…he loses decisively. All that would follow is a spin on the title of the 1997 movie, As Bad As It Gets.

[Basement Beat]

12. Michigan - where I live...

Unfortunately is a RED state locally that somehow votes Blue for presidents.
I'm sooooo disgusted by our state house and senate and backward policies that only drives idiocy and hate.
I was glad to see Trump get interrupted every two minutes during his speech here.