Peter Karmanos lobbying for Kwame Kilpatrick Pardon...

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The overlap of people that would vote for Trump and would like to see Kwame Kilpatrick receive a commuted sentence or pardon is probably a percentage of a percentage point. Honestly, I can't think of one single person that would hold both of those views.

Kwame might have received a stiffer sentence than others that have commited similar crimes, but that just means the others got off easy. For what he has cost Detroit, Kilpatrick deserves every year of the nearly three decade long sentence he received, and I've lost a bit of respect for Peter Karmanos as he continues to call for that sentence to be reduced.

I've read that there were at least 40,000 fewer black voters in Michigan casting ballots in 2016 than 2012. Trump won Michigan by 10,000 votes. The math is simple.

I'm not making a statement on whether KK should or should not have his sentence commuted. But I do think that Karmanos is trying to float ideas to the president that he thinks would create a wedge between traditional Democratic base voters in Michigan and the party.