Michigan Votes; McConnell Vacates
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Meanwhile, former president Trump won the state's Republican presidential primary, as widely expected.
And, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would leave his leadership position in November. He is the longest-serving Republican leader in the history of the Senate.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, campaign reporter Elena Moore, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and political correspondent Susan Davis.
Our producers are Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell & Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Erica Morrison. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.
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| 0:18.0 | That's Planet NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Asma Kala, I cover the White House. I'm Elena Moore, I cover the presidential. the on the show the message from Michigan. Michigan voters held their presidential |
| 0:44.6 | primaries last night and as expected President Joe Biden and former President |
| 0:48.5 | Donald Trump easily won their respective races. But the results also showed that they have got some challenges. |
| 0:56.2 | I want to start with Biden who won 81% of the vote. The next highest total came from uncommitted voters at 13% or just over 100,000 votes. |
| 1:07.6 | It was a campaign led by folks who are upset over how the president is handling the war in Gaza. |
| 1:13.8 | And Alina, what was the mission? |
| 1:16.4 | What was the message that these uncommitted voters |
| 1:19.2 | were trying to send? |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, they're trying to send the message |
| 1:21.8 | that folks are angry and hurt in Michigan and they want policy changes from Biden before the general election like now immediately. |
| 1:31.0 | The group running the push to vote uncommitted is called Listen to Michigan and it was |
| 1:35.8 | started largely by younger Arab and Muslim organizers based out of Dearborn, the city really |
| 1:41.7 | near Detroit that has a really large |
| 1:43.8 | Arab and Muslim population. And for the organizers and volunteers, you know, behind this |
| 1:48.7 | campaign, they will tell you they voted for Biden in 2020. They are largely Democrats, but they say that the |
| 1:55.3 | president could face a real challenge in the general if he doesn't do two things that |
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