Among the questions:
• Will younger voters turn out?
• Will older voters seek change?
• Will the growing political power of Black women swing key states?
• Will the suburbs once again provide the pivot points in the country’s partisan divide?
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Hattie Norwood, a 31-year-old mother of four girls, organized Saginaw County’s first protest in response to the death of George Floyd. “I’ve gained my political grounding,” she says.
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"When I leave this place, when I’m gone, there will be brown girls after me and I just can’t fathom a world that continues in this way.” — Hattie Norwood
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Local businessman Tom Roy can fathom systemic racism, but said he believes the important thing is that opportunity is available for those who make sacrifices. “Everyone has a chance to make money - that’s what is great about America."
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President Trump had planned to make pocketbook politics the heart of this campaign. Republican-leaning voters often express reservations about Trump’s tweets, but they like his tax cuts and handling of the economy. The almost-overnight recession disrupted that.
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The surge of coronavirus cases in red America seems to contradict the Trump campaign’s message that the country — the economy — is already coming back.
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But in a polarized America, shared facts are hard to find. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans viewed the economy as “good” in June, even though unemployment was near the highest in 70 years. Democrats held the opposite view, according to an AP-NORC poll.
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Americans have found some consensus when it comes to the effects of Trump’s presidency: close to two-thirds say he has made the country more divided.”
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Look for America in 2020 and you’ll find exhaustion. So many tribulations, so much strife. But there are those in Saginaw who say maybe the United States isn’t being pulled apart. Maybe it’s growing, even if uncomfortably so.
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“This is one of those terrible growth moments where people of goodwill and good thought can bring us to another level. When you build on truth, anything is possible.” — Rev. Hurley Coleman is head of the World Outreach Campus Church
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Read more in the first installment of #AmericaDisrupted, produced by a team of @AP journalists and written by @kat__stafford and @joshboakhttps://apnews.com/1ff1254f0017af3aa02f0311bb2c67ec …
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Is this the only image you have over there? Someone got lazy AF.
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