President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump They met their predictions Tuesday in the Michigan primary. who celebrated their matches and managed to declare themselves winners, but were unable to remove their opponents from the playing field.

So, Trump will have to continue to confront Nikki Haley former governor of South Carolina, who will not abandon the race just yet, despite the fact that today she received only 28.5% of the vote with 22% counted to the former president’s 66.6%.

Meanwhile, it was confirmed that Biden, although he is the only candidate from the Democratic Party with real chances, will have a rival in the presidential race who could significantly complicate his re-election: voter is dissatisfied with the US role in the war in the Gaza Strip.

If we take into account 22%, Biden received 79.7% support, with 14.6% checking the “uncommitted” box. (unpledged delegates, the equivalent of a blank vote) after a campaign that encouraged it to demonstrate opposition to the US role in the Gaza War.

Gaza is the main obstacle for Biden

And the main key to this election was that measure how the Gaza conflict could weaken Biden ahead of the November general election.

Two organizations representing the voices of Arabs and Muslims, as well as the most progressive Democrats, Listen to “Michigan and Our Revolution” accordingly, asked for a “not accepted” check mark to protest the United States’ support for Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The goal of the protest movement was at least 10% of the votes cast in the Democratic primary were blank, in an attempt by the Biden administration to change the course of its Middle East policy and demand an immediate and unconditional ceasefire from Israel.

And although the account is unfinished, They appear to have achieved their goal in a key state for the presidential election. for it is one of those states which are known as hinge states, which can lean on both the Democratic and Republican sides by a slight margin.

In the 2020 election, Michigan, which has counties with large Arab populations, This was the key to Biden’s victory.

State determines 117 delegates to the Democratic National Convention and the “impossible” vote, while not likely to derail the incumbent’s nomination, could serve to vent the grievances of young voters and areas with large Arab and Muslim populations during the party’s convention in August, where Biden’s name will be formally named.

Along with Biden, Democrats could also elect a congressman today Dean Phillips which received only 2.8% of the vote.

Haley continues: She’s ready for Super Tuesday

Despite Haley’s new defeat, the former South Carolina governor told CNN minutes after polls closed that is not out of the nomination race Republican Party and that he will “absolutely” attend Super Tuesday because he “has a country to save.”

Monday’s primaries in numbers little Republican representationWith. And because the state’s primary election date violates GOP rules, only 16 of the 55 delegates will be awarded based on this Tuesday’s results to avoid sanctions.

The remaining delegates will be appointed in state party convention March 2 next year is another feature of the complex and lengthy US primary calendar.

The former governor of South Carolina, who also lost her state’s primary last weekend, She is Trump’s only remaining challenger.

So he comes with little opportunity for Super Tuesday on the 5th, a day when fifteen states convene to vote, including Texas and California.

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However, Michigan’s results have not yet increasedTrump has 110 of the 1,215 delegates he needs to add. to be mathematically named the Republican Party nominee, which will happen at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which will be held from July 15 to 18. Hayley is only 20.

Everything seems to indicate that nothing can stop the former governor, not even all the cases pending in the justice system, including four criminal trials for crimes such as attempting to invalidate an election, bribery, possession of classified documents or its connection to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. .

(according to information from EFE)