President Donald Trump has won the state of Michigan. The Associated Press called the state for the Republican candidate a little before 1 p.m. EST. The state’s 15 electoral votes raise his Electoral College tally to 292 to 224 for Kamala Harris.

With 98.4% of the vote counted, Trump won by 1.4% of the popular vote, an unofficial vote tally shows. Trump won 49.7% to 48.3% for Kamala Harris, with 2% voting for other candidates.

The margin of victory between Trump and Harris came to just 81,214 votes. Michigan voters cast 109,733 ballots for Jill Stein and “other candidates.”

The loss cements problems the Democratic ticket has had in Michigan over crime, the economy, and an issue often neglected in other states: foreign policy. Michigan is home to the nation’s largest Muslim population, which has rebuked the Biden-Harris administration for refusing to force Israel into a ceasefire in a conflict they call a “genocide.” Although President Joe Biden won the Michigan primary, 13% of Democrats voted for “uncommitted” in protest. The mayor of Dearborn, America’s first Arab-majority city and the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States, endorsed neither candidate. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of The Squad, also withheld her support from Kamala Harris for president. “We’ve got to make sure that the nonpartisan part of the ballot gets filled in,” Tlaib told a rally of the United Auto Workers last Friday.

However, Jewish voters appeared to drift toward Trump over the Biden-Harris administration’s funding of Iran and insistence on giving aid to the Gaza Strip.

Experts say voters on both sides of the issue agree with the Republican Party on cultural issues such as transgender ideology. There is a surprising degree of “unity between three voting groups: Jewish voters, Islamic voters,” and Arab Christians, especially Chaldeans who are Orthodox Christians, said Craig DeRoche — the former speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and president of the Family Policy Alliance — during a special election evening program hosted by Tony Perkins on the Real Life Network.

Harris carried women and voters over the age of 65, according to a Michigan exit poll from Reuters, while President Trump carried white voters and those without a college degree. Less than one in five voters ranked abortion as their most important issue. 

President Trump shocked the country in 2016 by flipping the state, long considered a part of the “blue wall” protecting Democrats from electoral irrelevance. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a mere 11,702 votes, or 0.3% of the vote.

Trump has concluded all three of his presidential campaigns with an election-eve rally in Grand Rapids. The southwestern urban area, the state’s second-largest city, is traditionally friendlier terrain for the Republican Party. Trump won Kent County in 2016 but lost it in both subsequent elections.

On Monday night, Trump implored the cheering crowd to make the Republican candidate’s margin of victory so large that it is “too big to rig” — that it could withstand any voter fraud that might occur in such notorious districts as Detroit. 

“Over the past four years, Americans have suffered one catastrophic failure, betrayal, and humiliation after another,” he said. “Kamala has delivered soaring prices and true economic anguish at home, war and chaos abroad, and a nation-destroying invasion on our southern border, invasion of some of the greatest criminals in the world that are pouring into our country. And we are not going to take that,” declared Trump, as the near-capacity crowd in the Van Andel Arena cheered on a speech that did not end until 2:19 a.m. “We’re going to end that!”