NBC News projects Biden, Trump win Michigan primaries

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: NBC News projects Joe Biden wins in Michigan amid the “uncommitted” protest vote. Also, Democrats target anti-women GOP policies in key swing states. And disinformation poses an unprecedented threat in 2024. Steve Kornacki, Simon Rosenberg, Rep. Hillary Scholten, and Barbara McQuade join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	MSMEC's coverage of the Michigan primary continues on the last word with
0:04.7	Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence. Good evening, Alex. Thank you, Alex and
0:09.0	Chris, for this mini election night coverage. We're going to return halfway to regular programming in this hour.
0:16.4	A lot of numbers to look at on the screen,
0:18.2	but it's another addition of the last word here.
0:20.3	Sounds great.
0:21.3	Thank you both.
0:21.9	Thank you.
0:23.0	Well, once again tonight, in the Michigan primary, President Joe Biden is getting a much bigger
0:29.2	percentage of the vote from his party than Donald Trump is getting from his party.
0:34.0	NBC News projects that President Joe Biden is the winner of the Michigan Democratic
0:39.8	primary and that Donald Trump is the winner of the Michigan Republican primary at this hour.
0:46.0	Joe Biden has 79% of the vote and Donald Trump has 66% of the Republican vote.
0:55.0	Let's go straight to Steve Prenaki at the big board for the latest numbers.
0:59.0	Yeah, Lauren, so I mean, let's start on that Republican primary because about a fifth of the vote one in five votes are now
1:04.7	tabulated here and you can see all the counties lighting up in Trump's color.
1:08.0	I think the headline here on the Republican side obviously is that Donald Trump wins but
1:11.9	remember what Haley has been getting so far in is that
1:15.0	obviously is that Donald Trump wins but remember what Haley's been getting so far in New Hampshire she got 43% of the vote in South Carolina just last Saturday
1:18.8	she got 40% of the vote she made that idea of 40% kind of consistently a centerpiece of her speech Saturday night.
1:25.8	Well, here we are in Michigan that has the same rules that South Carolina had. There is no party registration in Michigan.
1:32.1	Nobody registers as a Democrat, as a Republican,
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