The results of Tuesday’s primary are getting particular attention because Michigan is the first top general-election battleground state to hold its 2024 primary.
Biden faced a movement to persuade Democrats to vote “uncommitted” that started three weeks ago to pressure him to call for an unconditional cease-fire in Gaza.
And support for Nikki Haley "again showed that some Republican voters may have misgivings about giving the former president another four years," says The Associated Press.
As of 6 a.m. and with 99 percent of the vote counted, the Detroit Free Press is showing Biden at 81 percent and "uncommitted" at 13 percent.
Trump has 68 percent of GOP votes, and Haley has 27 percent.
It isn’t surprising to see “uncommitted” beat Biden in Dearborn and Hamtramck, two of the Michigan cities with the highest concentrations of Arab Americans, says The New York Times.
But “perhaps more worrisome" for Biden is his performance in Ann Arbor, where most students and faculty members at the University of Michigan live. “Uncommitted” got 19 percent of the vote there. In East Lansing, home to Michigan State University, “uncommitted” got 15 percent.
"While no other battleground states have Arab American communities the size of Michigan’s, they all have college towns where young, progressive voters are angry about American support for Israel,” the Times says.
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