These 5 Democrats would all beat Trump in Michigan in 2020, poll shows

Michigan seems to be putting its one red election in the past.
In a poll of likely Michigan voters released Wednesday, five top Democratic 2020 contenders have all come out on top of President Trump. That includes former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) going 53 to 41 percent over Trump, and Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) all earning 47 percent support, the Glengariff Group survey shows.
Michigan went red for the first time since 1988 in the last presidential election, with a narrow 47.3 percent of the voters going to Trump and 47 percent going to Hillary Clinton. Yet this time around, just 36 percent of voters have said they'll re-elect Trump, while 51 percent plan to go for someone new, per the poll. That was best showed through the fact that just 56 percent of Michigan voters said they knew who Buttigieg was, but he earned 47 percent support to Trump's 41 percent anyway. Eleven percent of voters remain undecided should the matchup prove to be Buttigieg and Trump, but just 4 percent say they'd be undecided if Biden was the nominee, suggesting the former vice president would easily win the state.
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Glengariff Group surveyed 600 likely voters in Michigan from May 28-30, with 65 percent interviewed via landline and 35 percent via cell phone. There was a 4 percent margin of error.
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