URGENT NOTE:
While writing this piece, I received an alert that Donald Trump is dispatching agents to polling stations in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing, and East Lansing today to “monitor” polling stations for “transparency.”
These four cities are not just democratic stronghold cities — they’re the cities in Michigan that are considered the most progressive and leftist cities in the state.
Hamtramck stands out on this list not because of its leftist politics, but rather because of its population — half of the city are legal immigrants, and Hamtramck has some of the largest populations of Bangladeshi-American and Yemeni-American citizens in the nation. The city is majority Muslim, and the targeting of Hamtramck (as opposed to other equally far-left cities, like Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti) makes it clear that Trump’s actions here are to intimidate Muslim and minority voters in a primary that is very much about the genocide in Israel.
