Chris McGreal

Pat Parker has campaigned for Democratic presidential candidates in the battleground state of Michigan through five elections, and it hasn't always been a happy experience.

Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan · 7-min read Like so many military veterans, the ageing group of men and women adorned

At Saginaw city’s biggest soup kitchen, most are hoping for a candidate who can usher in notable economic change

People on the east side of Saginaw city are more used to seeing buildings come down than go up.

TV, radio and mailboxes in Saginaw, Michigan, and any place likely to decide next week’s election, are being bombarded

The Guardian US writer Chris McGreal reports from his time in Saginaw, Michigan – the county that has backed the winning candidate in every US presidential election since 2008 – to find out which way America might vote on 5 November

Bereaved mothers in a Michigan city pleaded with the council for action at its last meeting before local elections

In a final effort to reach voters in this swing county in Michigan, residents are urged to ask friends to vote

Alice Lopez left the union hall so disturbed by what she had just heard that she determined she would persuade her daughters to vote even though they had never done so before.

They lined up in the dark and rain before the polling stations even opened across Saginaw , the bellwether county in the crucial battleground state of Michigan