The 11,000 Votes That Haunt Michigan Democrats
In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by the narrowest margin of any state—10,704 votes. “There are 11,000 more votes in Detroit,” Garlin Gilchrist told himself that night. “There are 11,000 Black men who could vote to change that.”A few months later, Gilchrist, then just 35, entered the race for Detroit city clerk—the city’s chief elections officer. His pitch: He could help engage more voters, and help make it easier for them to vote.