Biden and Trump won the primary in Michigan and took another step towards a rematch in the elections.

chairman Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump They won their respective parties’ presidential primaries on Tuesday michiganTaking another step towards the impending retribution between the two.

Biden defeats Minnesota representative dean phillipsThe only significant opponent left is in the Democratic primaries. But Democrats were also closely watching the results of the “uncommitted” vote, as Michigan has become a hotbed of disaffected members of Biden’s coalition that helped him win the state — and the presidency — in 2020. The number of “uncommitted” votes has increased, surpassing the target set by organizers of this year’s protests when Trump won the state by a margin of 10,000 in 2016.

As far as Trump is concerned, he has completed capturing the first five states on the Republican primary agenda. His victory over his last remaining rival in Michigan, the former UN ambassador nikki haleyIt came after the former president crossed the 20 percentage point on Saturday South Carolina, where Haley was governor. Trump’s campaign wants to reach the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination in mid-March.

Both campaign teams are closely watching Tuesday’s results in search of something more than the anticipated victory. For Biden, a large number of “unaffiliated” voters could mean he is in deep trouble with the Democratic base in a state he cannot afford to lose in November. Trump, meanwhile, has performed poorly among suburban and college-educated voters, and he faces a faction within his own party that believes the former president broke the law in one or more cases. Biden had already won a comfortable victory South Carolina, Nevada and New Hampshire,

Both the White House and Biden campaign officials traveled to Michigan in recent weeks to speak with community leaders War between Israel and Hamas And the way the President has addressed the conflict, but these leaders, along with the organizers of the “non-committed” vote campaign, have not changed their position.

The campaign, which was encouraging voters to select “uncommitted” as a way to register objections to Israel’s handling of the ongoing war in Gaza, has been Biden’s most significant political challenge in the early contests. That campaign, which began in earnest just a few weeks ago, is supported by officials such as Democratic Reps. Rashida TlaibFirst Palestinian-American woman in Congress.