President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are expected to win handily in their respective races, but both will have lessons to learn.
Here's what to keep in mind in Michigan:
The first electoral test of Biden's strategy in Israel: Biden's support for Israel – whose war in Gaza has killed some 30,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave's Health Ministry – has angered American progressives, many of them Jews, and Arab Americans. The city of Dearborn, Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab-American communities in the United States. That anger is fueling a state-level movement among Democratic critics of Israel to have voters mark “uncommitted” on their ballots. How committed are Michigan Democrats to Biden? Tuesday will tell.
A fractured and confusing republican process: The split delegate allocation process between a Republican primary in Michigan on Tuesday and a state party convention on Saturday is the result of Republicans' reaction to Democrats' decision to change the party's presidential nominating schedule after the elections. 2020 elections, demoting Iowa and New Hampshire. moving South Carolina and Nevada to the forefront and placing Michigan in third place in their new lineup.
Tests for Biden, Trump: Biden has the backing of the United Auto Workers union, the support of Black voters and a stronger Democratic infrastructure, with an electorate energized by a battle for abortion rights that gave Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her party victories in the elections in 2022. Meanwhile, Trump hopes to reshape the white working-class coalition that helped him tear down the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016.
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