Watch Replay: Donald Trump Rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI — Two days before Americans vote in the historic Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election, Donald Trump is bringing his Hail Mary campaign for Michigan’s 16 electoral votes to Sterling Heights Sunday. The rally at 6 p.m. Eastern Time will be held at the Freedom Hill Amphitheater, at 14900 Metro Parkway.

Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will be back in Michigan Monday to finish his campaign at a late-night rally in Grand Rapids. The 11 p.m. Eastern Time rally will be held at Devo’s Place, 303 Monroe Ave. NW. Pence will fly into Traverse City Monday for a 1 p.m. Eastern Time rally at AvFlight Traverse City, 1220 Airport Access Road.

To get tickets for Trump’s Sterling Heights rally, go here. For tickets to the Trump-Pence Grand Rapids rally, go here. For tickets to Pence’s Traverse City rally, go here.

As the campaign enters the final sprint, Clinton campaign also is making a flurry of pre-Election Day visits to Michigan, including one by former President Bill Clinton for a rally from noon-2 p.m. Eastern Time at the United Auto Workers Local 652, 426 Clare St., Lansing. To get tickets, go here.

The former secretary of state will be in Grand Rapids, the candidate’s first west of U.S. 23 in this election cycle. The Michigan Democratic Party get-out-the-vote from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time at Grand Valley State University Fieldhouse, 10915 S. Campus Drive, Allendale. For tickets, go here.

Air Force Once will bring President Barack Obama to Ann Arbor Monday morning for a Clinton rally at Ray L. Fisher Stadium, the University of Michigan baseball stadium, 1114 S. State St. The rally takes place from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and Obama is expected to arrive around 11 a.m. For tickets, go here

Once Blue, Michigan in Play

A month ago, Michigan appeared to be safe territory for Clinton, who had an 11-point lead in polls. History also suggested she would win the state, which hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential nominee since former President George H. Walker Bush’s election in 1988.

But the billionaire businessman, casino owner and reality television star has broken through Clinton’s “Blue Wall” in Michigan and other battleground states, and now the state’s rich cache of electoral votes is up for grabs.

The Blue Wall States “are all whiter, in some cases overwhelmingly so,” Politico reported, noting that “a combination of white voters’ drift to the GOP and Trump’s appeal puts these states firmly in play.”

Those states, and the percentage of non-white residents in 2012, are:

• Iowa, 7 percent
• Michigan, 23 percent
• New Hampshire, 17 percent
• Ohio, 21 percent
• Pennsylvania, 22 percent
• Wisconsin, 14 percent

The states, which together have 74 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, have also traditionally been reliable for Democrats. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which together have 46 of those electoral votes, in particular have leaned more heavily Democrat than other Blue Wall states. Like Michiganders, Pennsylvanians haven’t backed a Republican since the first President Bush, and Wisconsinites last voted for the GOP nominee in 1984.

In Michigan, a Real Clear Politics polling average still gives Clinton 5-point edge over Trump in a four-way race, 47.7 percent to 42.7 percent, but Trump has proven himself to be nothing if not effective in coalescing his former critics.

Nationally, the race remains a toss up. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday showed Clinton leading Trump, 44 percent to 40 percent, in a four-way race that includes Libertarian Gary Johnson (6 percent) and the Green Party’s Jill Stein (2 percent).

In October, Clinton had an 11-point lead in that poll.

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