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 an imminent rematch 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 already surpassed the 10,000 margin by which Trump won the state in 2016, and has also outpaced the target set by organizers of this year’s protests.

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 is attempting to reach the 1,215 delegates needed for the Republican nomination by mid-March.

Both campaign teams are closely watching Tuesday’s results in search of a larger-than-expected 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 approached 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, has the support of officials like Democratic Reps. Rashida TlaibFirst Palestinian-American woman in Congress.