Clear defeat for Haley: Trump wins Michigan primaries

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The American broadcasters CNN and NBC reported this on Tuesday evening (local time), citing their own predictions. As expected, Trump’s competitor Nikki Haley suffered a clear defeat: after about 10 percent of the votes had been counted, the two were more than 30 percentage points apart.

Trump and Haley fought again in the northern state with about ten million inhabitants for their party’s nomination for the presidential elections on November 5. Anyone who wants to become a presidential candidate in the US must first win in the parties’ internal primaries. The candidates are then officially chosen at party conferences in the summer. The Republican nominating convention will take place in mid-July.

Haley had already lost to Trump in the primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and last weekend in South Carolina. The 52-year-old is considered slightly more politically and rhetorically moderate than her competitor. It is unclear how long she will remain in the running for her candidacy, because she will essentially no longer have a chance to defeat Trump. The 77-year-old has strong support among the party base.

US President Joe Biden also won the Democratic primaries in Michigan, as expected, according to the predictions of American broadcasters. The Democrat has no serious competition within his party in the race for the presidential nomination. However, according to the forecasts, many voters voted “undecided”. How high the number actually is will only become clear when more votes are counted. There are many Muslims living in Michigan who disagree with Biden’s support of Israel in the Gaza war and therefore may have voted against him as protest voters.

Michigan is considered a so-called swing state that cannot be assigned with certainty to the Democrats or the Republicans.

(SDA)

Source: Blick