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At a Michigan high school football field, impeachment is the political line of scrimmage for a suburb in flux

November 02, 2019

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Football players hurried across the field at East Grand Rapids High School on a chilly afternoon as families settled onto seat cushions on the cold metal bleachers, bundling under heavy wool blankets to watch the freshman team take on West Catholic High School.


Sitting atop the stands, you could see Reeds Lake shimmer in the sun. An American flag flapped in the breeze and the tips of tree canopies burned bronze, orange, and burgundy. The view was so timeless Americana it could have been the fall of 1973, when impeachment was brewing around another president in a scandal that would vault the area’s most famous resident, Gerald R. Ford, into the Oval Office.

But it was October 2019, hours after acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted — before he tried to take it back — that the Trump administration had withheld money from Ukraine in a bid to investigate Democrats. And in this rapidly growing western Michigan suburb, like in others across the country, support for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump has been growing while the area shifts politically to the left after decades as a Republican stronghold.

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