2024-02-28 03:56:37
President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump met the predictions this Tuesday in the Michigan primaries held by their respective parties and managed to be declared winners, but they were unable to remove their rivals from the game board.
Thus, Trump will have to continue facing Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, who will not abandon the race for now, despite the fact that today she only obtained 28.5% of the votes with 22% counted, compared to 66.6%. % of the former president.
Meanwhile, today it has been confirmed that Biden, despite being the only Democratic candidate with real possibilities, will have a rival in the presidential race who could considerably complicate his re-election: the voter dissatisfied with the US role in the Gaza war.
With 22% counted, Biden obtained 79.7% of support while 14.6% checked the “uncommitted” box (uncommitted delegates, the equivalent of a blank vote), following a campaign that encouraged this to show the rejection of paper of the USA in the Gaza war.
Gaza, the main obstacle for Biden
And the main key to this election was that, to measure how the Gaza conflict can weaken Biden in the face of the November general election.
Two organizations that represent the Arab and Muslim vote and the most progressive Democrats, Listen to Michigan and Our Revolution, respectively, requested that the ‘uncommitted’ box be checked in protest of the support that the United States is providing to Israel in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Loop.
The goal of the protest movement was for at least 10% of the votes cast in the Democratic primary to be blank, in an attempt for the Biden Administration to change course in its policy towards the Middle East and demand a ceasefire from Israel. immediate and unconditional.
And, although with the count incomplete, it seems that they have achieved their objective in a key state for the presidential elections since it is one of those known as hinge states, those that by the narrow margin can lean on both the Democratic and Republican sides.
In the 2020 elections, Michigan, which has counties with a large Arab population, was key to Biden’s victory.
The state determines 117 delegates for the Democratic convention and the “uncommitted” vote, although it cannot derail the nomination of the current president, can serve to air the discontent of young voters and areas with a large percentage of Arab and Muslim populations during the party convention, which will be held in August, and at which Biden will be officially named.
Along with Biden, Democrats could also elect Congressman Dean Phillips today, who received only 2.8% of the votes.
Haley continues, list for the ‘supermarts’
Despite Haley’s new defeat, the former governor of South Carolina stated in an interview with CNN, minutes after the polls closed, that she is not withdrawing from the race for the Republican Party nomination and that she will “absolutely” participate in the ‘ Super Tuesday’, since he has “a country to save.”
In numerical terms, today’s primaries have little representation for the Republicans. And since the date of the state’s primary elections violates the rules of the Republican party, to avoid a sanction, only 16 of the 55 delegates will be awarded according to this Tuesday’s results.
The remaining delegates will be assigned at the party’s state convention on March 2, one more peculiarity of the complex and lengthy primary calendar in the United States.
The former governor of South Carolina, who also lost last weekend in her own state’s primary, is Trump’s only remaining rival.
It therefore arrives with few possibilities for ‘Super Tuesday’ on the 5th, a day in which fifteen states are called to vote, including Texas and California.
With the results of Michigan still to be added, Trump has 110 delegates of the 1,215 he needs to add in order to be mathematically named the Republican candidate, something that will happen at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which will be held from July 15 to 18. . Haley is only 20.
Everything seems to indicate that nothing can stop the former ruler, not even all the pending cases he has with the justice system, including four criminal trials for crimes such as the attempt to invalidate the elections, bribery, the retention of classified documents or his relationship. with the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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