Editing Macomb County, Michigan (section)

===Politics===
Macomb County has historically shown [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] tendencies in statewide elections, while tending to favor [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidates at the federal and local level.<ref>{{cite news| title=More election games by county GOP| url=http://www.downtownpublications.com/pdalpeditorial.lasso?-token.story=219591.112113| date=December 4, 2014| work=Downtown| access-date=June 26, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914143319/http://www.downtownpublications.com/pdalpeditorial.lasso?-token.story=219591.112113| archive-date=September 14, 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref> Since the 2010s, Macomb County has shifted towards the Republicans, and after the [[2020 United States elections|2020 elections]] the party gained control of the [[Macomb County Board of Commissioners|Board of Commissioners]] for the first time as well as four of the five countywide offices.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Selweski |first1=Chad |title=Macomb County making a big right turn |date=November 4, 2020 |url=https://www.politicscentral.org/macomb-county-making-a-big-right-turn/ |access-date=June 10, 2021}}</ref> The county gained fame in the 1980s and '90s as a bellwether of state and national politics. Macomb's large cohort of middle-class,<ref>{{cite news| title=Household Income in Macomb County, Michigan| url=https://statisticalatlas.com/county/Michigan/Macomb-County/Household-Income}}</ref> socially conservative White voters gave it one of the nation's most prominent concentrations of "[[Reagan Democrat]]s".<ref>{{cite news| title=The Rise of the Biden Republicans| url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/04/reagan-democrats-biden-republicans-politics-stan-greenberg-473330| date=March 5, 2021| first=Zach| last=Stanton| work=[[Politico]]}}</ref> Outsider candidates with a conservative-populist bent have done well there in the past, such as [[Pat Buchanan]] in [[1992 Republican Party presidential primaries|1992]] and [[Donald Trump]] in [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]], [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], and [[2024 United States presidential election in Michigan|2024]].<ref>{{cite news|
 title=Are Reagan Democrats Becoming Trump Democrats?| url=http://spectator.org/63765_are-reagan-democrats-becoming-trump-democrats/| first=Jeffrey| last=Lord| date=August 13, 2015|
 work=[[The American Spectator]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Buchanan, Bush stump in Michigan President again spurns debate plea| date=March 14, 1992| first=Jules| last=Witcover| url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/03/14/buchanan-bush-stump-in-michigan-president-again-spurns-debate-plea/| work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Feiner|first=Lauren|date=October 14, 2020|title=Michigan's Macomb County is a crucial blue-collar battleground for Trump and Biden|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/2020-election-michigan-macomb-county-trump-biden.html|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref> Macomb County voters were primarily responsible for the failure of the 2016 [[Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan|Regional Transit Authority]] proposal to create a comprehensive public transit system in the [[Metropolitan Detroit]] region.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Witsil| first1=Frank| title=RTA millage rejected by metro Detroit voters| url=http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/11/09/rta-regional-transit-authority-millage/93535602/| access-date=November 29, 2016| newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]| date=November 9, 2016}}</ref>

The more populated communities south of [[M-59 (Michigan highway)|M-59]] (Warren, Sterling Heights, Clinton Charter Township), closer to Detroit city proper are friendlier to Democrats. Warren leans Democratic, while Sterling Heights, after voting for [[Barack Obama]] in 2012, voted for Trump by about 12 points in both 2016 and 2020, but in 2018, voted for [[Gretchen Whitmer]] and [[Debbie Stabenow]] by 3 points, and Clinton Charter Township after voting for Obama in 2012, voted for Trump in 2016, but swung back to Whitmer and Stabenow in 2018 and [[Joe Biden]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2016 Presidential General Election Results - Macomb County, MI|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2016&fips=26099&f=0&off=0&elect=0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2020 Presidential General Election Results - Macomb County, MI|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2020&fips=26099&f=0&off=0&elect=0}}</ref> The communities north of M-59 further removed from Detroit are more strongly Republican, all backing Trump in 2016 and 2020 and [[Bill Schuette]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Macomb Co. - Election Results - Governor/Lieutenant Governor|url=https://clerk.macombgov.org/sites/default/files/content/government/clerk/electionresults/2018/November18/301-bd.html|access-date=July 7, 2021|website=clerk.macombgov.org}}</ref>