Welcome to Frankenmuth, the bizarre 'German' city that could swing the US election By Mackenzie Tatananni For Dailymail.Com Published: 15:38, 2 June 2024 | Updated: 14:53, 3 June 2024 e-mail 103 shares 232 View comments Visitors to the bizarre city of Frankenmuth are greeted by a colorful sign bearing the German word for welcome, 'Willkommen'. There's toytown Old World architecture and plenty of beer, bratwurst and lederhosen.
Outside Cheese Haus, owned by the same family for generations, locals carve blocks of cheddar into towering sculptures at a festival each June. You'd be forgiven for thinking you've stumbled across a quaint European city. But Cheese Haus is not in rural Germany , it's on Main Street in heartland America because Frankenmuth is slap bang in the middle of key election swing state Michigan .
Known as Michigan's Little Bavaria (after the German state) and home to about 5,000 residents, the city is famous for its Oktoberfest - which holds the honor of being the first official celebration of the festival outside Munich. Joe Biden comfortably won Michigan in the 2020 election but Donald Trump holds a narrow lead in the polls there for November's rematch. Frankenmuth is Trump country - and if Trump is to return to the White House he needs the kind of dominant win there that he managed over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The majority of Frankenmuth's residents have voted for Donald Trump in the past two elections - but greater Saginaw County, an electoral bellwether, i.
