AP Dearborn (Michigan)
Dearborn (Michigan)
Updated Wednesday, February 28, 2024-07:10
President
Joe Biden
and former President
Donald Trump
won their respective parties' presidential primaries in
Michigan
on Tuesday , taking another step towards what appears to be an imminent rematch between the two.
Biden defeated Minnesota Rep.
Dean Phillips
, his only remaining major challenger in the Democratic primary.
But Democrats were also closely watching the results of the "uncommitted" vote, as Michigan has become the epicenter of dissatisfied members of Biden's coalition that led him to win the state — and the presidency — in 2020. The number of "uncommitted" votes has already surpassed the 10,000 margin by which Trump won the state in 2016, surpassing the goal set by organizers of this year's protest.
As for Trump, he completed the sweep of the first five states on the Republican primary agenda.
Her victory in Michigan over her last remaining rival, former United Nations ambassador
Nikki Haley
, came after the former president bested her by 20 percentage points on Saturday in
South Carolina
, where Haley was governor.
Trump's campaign seeks to reach the 1,215 delegates needed for the Republican nomination by mid-March.
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Both campaign teams are closely following Tuesday's results in search of more than just an anticipated victory.
For Biden, the large number of "unengaged" voters could mean he is in deep trouble with the Democratic base in a state he cannot afford to lose in November.
Trump, meanwhile, has performed poorly among suburban and college-educated voters, and faces a faction within his own party that believes the former president broke the law in one or more of the cases. penalties against him.
Biden had already achieved comfortable victories in
South Carolina, Nevada and New Hampshire
.
Both White House and Biden campaign officials traveled to Michigan in recent weeks to speak with community leaders about the
war between Israel and Hamas
and the president's approach to the conflict, but these leaders, along with organizers of the "non-committed" vote campaign, have not changed their positions.
The campaign, which had been encouraging voters to select "uncommitted" as a way to register objections to his handling of Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, has been Biden's most significant political challenge in the early contests.
That campaign, which began in earnest just a few weeks ago, has been endorsed by officials such as Democratic Rep.
Rashida Tlaib
, the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress.