WARREN MICH. - For voters here in this blue-collar suburb of Detroit, presidential elections are always about one thing - jobs.
Macomb County, birthplace of the "Reagan Democrats," voted for Barack Obama for president in both 2008 and 2012. This year, it went big for Donald Trump - 54 percent to 42 percent for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
And it was not alone. Throughout the Industrial Midwest, blue-collar suburban counties "flipped" in 2016. They were crucial to President-elect Trump's wins in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
What they want is clear -- restore the region's economy.
"I felt that Trump was going to bring the jobs back into the U.S., that was my whole thing. And he was going to try and close the borders so we don't have so many jobs going out of the country" says Kenneth Lombardo, who is in a job retraining program at Macomb Community College. He's an Obama-turned-Trump voter. ...
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