Trump's Problem in Michigan: A County Where Republicans Can't Get Along
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Brian Pannebecker was pumping iron in his garage late last month when he found out Donald Trump had just dropped by a nearby Macomb County campaign office to share pizza with volunteers. He was furious no one had invited him.
Pannebecker, who founded a 1,400-member group called Auto Workers for Trump and had joined the president on stage at a recent Grand Rapids rally, already felt like some local campaign leaders were botching the ground-level operations in Detroit’s outskirts by alienating allies like him.
So he tossed 100 Trump signs into his Ford Explorer, drove to Trump’s campaign office in the county and gave them back, announcing he would no longer work with the office. He picked up a black marker to scribble out his signature on an elephant statue in the office. Local police, he recalled, still on hand after Trump’s visit, escorted him from the premises.
Macomb is one of four counties in Michigan that the Trump campaign has pegged as especially important to winning a state where the former president needs every vote that he can get. But the GOP effort to boost turnout in Macomb County has been slow to gear up and beset by infighting.
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