GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Bartender Catey Regis had a pricey misadventure buying a used car recently — an experience that speaks to why voters are worrying about the U.S. economy going into this year's presidential election.
“To me, it’s a telltale sign about the economy," Regis explained from a bar stool after her shift.
But conversations with dozens of voters around Grand Rapids — a city of 200,000 in one of Michigan’s swing counties — show they're thinking about the economy through their own experiences.
Grand Rapids is the seat of Kent County, which backed Trump in 2016 and then flipped to Biden in 2020.
To the extent that the economy is doing well, there is little confidence that it is necessarily sustainable.
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