The US primary will continue in Michigan on Tuesday, a week before so-called Super Tuesday, which affects a total of 15 member states, MTI reported.
On Tuesday, the Michigan Democratic Party organization will vote on the presidential nominee in its entirety. US President Joe Biden is expected to get support easily: delegates who will decide the final nomination will vote based on the national nominating convention in August.
Congressman Dean Phillips and California writer Marianne Williamson — two relatively unknown figures in national politics — are running against President Joe Biden. If the incumbent president is re-elected, according to martial law, there are no opponents who have a real chance of winning the presidential nomination.
According to polls, Joe Biden wins easily: 70 percent of Democratic voters support him, while Dean Phillips has 7 percent, and support for Marianne Williamson is minimal, and she was not included in the latest poll released on Monday.
According to analysts, the only question is the activity of Democratic voters, which could be an indicator of electoral enthusiasm.
Pre-primary
By tradition, the primaries were always held on the second Tuesday in March, which was postponed to the last Tuesday in February due to a new law change.
The February date is one week before Super Tuesday, the “Big Day” primary, in which 15 federal states will decide the presidential nominee.
This is due to a change in legislation last year by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, which pushed back the state's primary by two weeks. The governor's rationale was that the early date gives Michigan voters a greater say in the presidential nomination for both parties.
Republicans are keeping this tradition going
According to Republican Party rules, the presidential nomination can only be decided in the federal states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina before March. In order to comply with both rules, Republicans chose that although they would give their electors the opportunity to vote on Tuesday, the final decision would be made on Saturday, already in March, at the nominating convention.
Accordingly, Republicans will hold only a partial primary on Tuesday, in which 16 votes out of 55 delegates will be contested. The statewide nominating convention will be held on Saturday, March 2, and a large portion of the remaining 39 delegates will be decided there.
In addition to former President Donald Trump, only Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former US ambassador to the United Nations, is now in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. All opinion polls indicate Donald Trump's lead.
According to the latest opinion poll published on Monday, in the state of Michigan, Donald Trump leads by 76 percent over Nikki Haley, who may win 24 percent of the primary votes.
Donald Trump has confidently won the primaries so far, most recently in South Carolina on Saturday, where he received the support of 60 percent of Republican voters with a record turnout. Nikki Haley also failed in her state, where she received about 40% of the votes. Despite her significant disadvantage, Nikki Haley has so far announced that she will remain in the race, drawing criticism from several prominent Republican politicians.
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