Democrats on edge in critical Michigan amid fears of waning enthusiasm

Neck and neck in polls, both presidential candidates target bellwether Saginaw county

Donald Trump's supporters do not pitch up at his rallies expecting to hear policy speeches or even the truth. Mostly they go for the comfort of distractions from hard realities and the allure of false promises to revive the past.

But some of the loudest cheers at Trump's recent rally in Saginaw, Michigan, came in response to a claim the former US president's supporters could believe, when he said election polls were swinging his way in the battleground state and that Kamala Harris's honeymoon period" was over.