From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, March 6th.

You've been hearing the Super Tuesday results headlines.

Trump and Biden basically swept the 15 states that voted, except Nikki

Haley beat Trump in Vermont. Haley suspending her campaign and not endorsing Trump as of now

we're hearing. So for all intents and purposes, the general election starts today. But I've been

looking at last night's numbers with

this question in mind, which party's dissenting voters are more of a threat to their nominee?

That is, the people who voted for Haley and Republican primaries who may refuse to back Trump in

November because they see him as unfit, or the people who joined the new

uncommitted movement in the Democratic primaries over Biden's continued funding of the war in

Gaza.

Here are some numbers.

On the Republican side, Haley got 40% in Utah, 37% in Massachusetts, significant,

35% in Virginia, that's 240,000 votes there, people who might not vote for Trump,

28% in Minnesota, potential swing state, that's 97,000 votes there, 26% in Maine, 23% in North Carolina,

definitely a swing state, and that's 250,000

votes for Nikki Haley in a Republican primary, 250,000 votes in a swing state of Republicans,

presumably it was a Republican primary that did not go to Trump.

On the Democratic side, seven of the 15 states had an uncommitted

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