Donald Trump Continues March Toward GOP Nomination With Michigan Win

2/27/24
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
2/27/24:

Donald Trump won Michigan’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday, marking the fifth straight victory for the former president in this year’s major nominating contests and delivering the latest blow to Nikki Haley’s underdog bid.

The Associated Press called the race just after the polls closed, moving Trump closer to a historic rematch with President Biden in November’s election and heightening pressure on Haley to bow out. With 30% of the expected vote counted, Trump led Haley 67.1% to 27.9%.

Trump’s dominance in the first contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, and now Michigan, have given the former president an air of inevitability and knocked Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, into also-ran status.

Michigan will be a key battleground this fall, so primary results will be analyzed for what they might forecast. The state backed Trump in 2016, before flipping back to Biden in 2020.

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