The left finally has a chance to win big battleground races. Michigan is at the center of the fight.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — William Lawrence sat at a crowded table in the back of a small-town diner earlier this month, flanked by opponents of local data center developments as a model train whirled around a track set along the restaurant’s ceiling.

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