Detroit Mayor Duggan putting political pull behind Vice President Harris’ presidential pursuit

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is deep in campaign mode. But not his own.

The three-term mayor, whose name is being floated as a possible Democratic candidate for Michigan governor, knows the value of his and his majority Black city’s support for Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election.

Duggan, like some other major city mayors across the country, is using his political pull to help mobilize voters in his city as Harris is set to visit Monday in a Labor Day slate of events by the Democrat and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Mayors tend to be elected along partisan lines with policies reflecting the views of the majority of voters in their cities. Of the largest 20 cities in the United States based on population, only Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, have Republican mayors.

Mayors “know what’s at stake,” said Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, a Democrat who adds that he’s “all in for the vice president.”

For Duggan, it’s all about getting Harris and Walz elected.

Michigan is among the top swing state prizes Harris and Republican nominee former President Donald Trump are vying for this fall, ever aware that Trump won the state by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016 before losing it to President Joe Biden in 2020 by about 150,000 votes.

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