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Republicans Tuesday cast all of Michigan's 15 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump.

Between Tuesday of last week and Saturday, pollster Steve Mitchell of Mitchell Research said ongoing interviews found surging voter sentiment toward Vice President Kamala Harris – with the biggest surge seen in completed surveys from Saturday.

The polls are projecting another razor-thin presidential election on Nov. 5, but if the margin of victory is under 1 percentage point, it would mark only the fourth time in Michigan’s history that the results were that close.

At the end of a presidential election cycle, most Americans are inundated by claims from both the Republican and Democrat nominees that they and their party are the best friends of pocketbook conscious voters.

With more than 1.1 million absentee ballots already turned in, Mark Grebner of Practical Political Data reported today that what he's seeing is that Democrats' response rate is about 4.5 percent higher than Republicans.