Michigan’s presidential primary is straightforward for Democrats: 117 delegates are up for grabs Tuesday in a state President Joe Biden favored moving toward the front of the 2024 calendar.
Republicans, meanwhile, have themselves quite the puzzle.
The GOP primary results will determine how 16 of Michigan’s 55 Republican National Convention delegates will be awarded. The other 39 will be decided Saturday at a state party convention, doled out based on the preferences of delegates from each congressional district.
That state convention — or, potentially, state conventions, plural — is where the real headaches could come for Republicans. The Michigan GOP is embroiled in a bizarre and unending leadership dispute. Two different people — Kristina Karamo and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra — claim to be chairing the state party. They have scheduled dueling conventions. And while the Republican National Committee has said Karamo was properly removed from the post and has proclaimed Hoekstra the rightful chair, there isn’t 100% clarity on whose convention will count….
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- Michigan’s presidential primary is Tuesday and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- You can still register to vote in person on Election Day, but it’s too late to mail absentee ballots
- Donald Trump and Joe Biden headline the Republican and Democratic primary fields
Michigan voters will help decide Democratic and Republican presidential nominees this week as the state’s primary period ends on Election Day.
The statewide contest will be settled earlier than usual this year because the Democratic-controlled Michigan Legislature moved up the primary date from early March to the fourth Tuesday of February.
The primary was also the first statewide election to feature a nine-day early voting period, which ended Sunday. Between early and absentee voting, hundreds of thousands of Michiganders have already cast ballots….
64% Trump
31% Haley
11% in
Biden 89%
Uncommitted 18%
32% in
I’ll have more numbers later but the Uncommitted thing seems to NOT be a problem for Joe Biden in Michigan….
In the end?
He REALLY doesn’t have to worry that much about it…
It would seem to be LESS than 15 to 20% of the vote…..