President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump fulfilled their respective parties and also the predictions in the Michigan primaries and managed to be declared winners, despite all the obstacles that both face.
For his part, the New York tycoon will have to continue facing his rival Nikki Haley, who will not leave the race for the moment, despite the fact that she only achieved 28.5% of the votes with 22% counted, compared to Trump’s 66.6%.
Meanwhile, it was confirmed that the Democratic executive, despite being the only candidate from his party with real possibilities, has to face something that could complicate his re-election: voters dissatisfied with the role of the United States in the war between Israel and Hamas in
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With 22% of the votes counted, the president obtained 79.7% of the support, while 14.6% marked the “uncommitted” box (uncommitted delegates, which is equivalent to a blank vote), continuing a campaign that encouraged precisely to that to demonstrate the rejection of the work of the United States in the face of the armed conflict in Gaza.
War in Gaza, the main difficulty for Biden
One of the main keys to these elections was that, to measure how the Gaza conflict can weaken the American president in the face of this year’s presidential elections.
Likewise, two organizations that represent the Arab and Muslim vote and progressive Democrats, Listen to Michigan and Our Revolution, respectively, asked to check the “uncommitted” box in protest of the support that the United States has offered to Israel in its military offensive.
The goal of this protest movement was that at least 10% of the votes cast in the Democratic primary were blank, to try to get the Government to change the course of its policy towards the Middle East and to urge Israel for an immediate ceasefire and unconditional.
Although the vote count has not been completed, it seems to have achieved its objective in a key state for the presidential elections, since it is one of the hinge states, which are those that by a narrow margin can lean towards either one party or the other.
Nikki Haley is still in the fight and ready for “Super Tuesday”
Even as Haley accumulates a new defeat, the former governor of South Carolina stated in an interview for CNN, minutes after the polls closed, that she would not withdraw from the race for the Republican Party nomination and that she would “absolutely” participate in the “Super Tuesday”, since he has “a country to save.”
Trump’s rival, who also lost last weekend in her own state’s primary, is the former president’s only rival.
So he has little chance of making it to “Super Tuesday” on March 5, the day in which some 15 states are called to vote, including Texas and California.
With the results from Michigan not added to those counted, Trump has 110 delegates of the 1,215 he needs to add in order to be mathematically named the Republican candidate for the November presidential elections, something that could happen at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which It will be held from July 15 to 18. Haley is only 20.
Apparently, everything seems to indicate that nothing will be able to stop Trump, not even all the pending cases he has with the American justice system, including four criminal trials for crimes such as the attempt to invalidate the elections, bribery, the retention of classified documents or the of its relationship with the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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