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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Michigan Voters Reveal Trump's and Biden's Perils

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump wins the GOP primary with two-thirds of the vote, while continuing to antagonize backers of Nikki Haley, who took 27%. Meantime, more than 100,000 Democrats cast ballots for "uncommitted," as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nears ballot qualification in Georgia and Arizona. Plus, the Supreme Court debates whether the ATF can decree that "bump stocks" are machine guns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

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this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.3

The Michigan primary results show political dangers for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden,

0:29.5

as the Supreme Court hears a case on whether the administrative state can unilaterally ban rifle

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accessories called bump stocks.

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Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

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We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal and editorial board member

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Manay Uquay Berua.

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With a week to go until Super Tuesday where 874 Republican delegates will be at stake.

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Candidates made a pit stop this week in Michigan for primaries there and Kim to my

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eye there's some points of vulnerability for each of these candidates in the results that we are now parsing.

1:06.0

Let's start with Donald Trump. Here's the result from the Michigan Republican primary.

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Trump with 68% of the vote.

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Nicky Haley with about 27%

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uncommitted with 3% and at about 2% for Ron DeSantis,

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Chris Christi, Vivekram Swami, and other dropout candidates.

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But remarkable to me, Kim, that it's pretty clear by now that Donald Trump's lead in this

1:31.5

Republican primary is all but insurmountable and yet still

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going into this primary. Nicky Haley is above a quarter of the vote and Donald Trump is barely

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