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Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that former President Donald Trump is an “unserious” man, but that the consequences of him returning to the White House are “brutally serious.”

Democrats tried to claim Dick DeVos and Rick Snyder had business dealings in China when they ran for Governor in 2006 and 2010. Republican Pete Hoeksta tried to use American spending on Chinese goods against U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) in her 2012 re-election bid.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) brought in an eye-popping $15 million this quarter, with her Republican opponent Mike Rogers raising $3 million, according to data compiled by MIRS.

More than 2.1 million absentee ballots had been requested for the Nov. 5 Presidential Election and more than 670,000 have returned with three weeks left, fewer than the 2020 election.

Democrats across the state are more likely to have turned in their absentee ballots than the Republicans who have requested them, according to early returns examined by Mark Grebner of Practical Political Data (PPD).