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What To Make Of The Protest Votes In Michigan

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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News, Politics

4.620.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Michigan primary resulted in easy victories for both former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, but it also laid bare some discontent in both parties. In this installment of the 538 Politics podcast, Galen speaks with Bridge Michigan politics reporter Jonathan Oosting, POLITICO senior Washington correspondent and co-author of Playbook Rachael Bade, and 538 director of data analytics G. Elliott Morris about Trump's and Biden's vulnerabilities within their own parties. Later in the show the crew turns its focus to Washington to discuss the looming partial government shutdown and how immigration is continuing to grow as a key issue for voters. They also question whether a recent poll using pictures of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a "good or bad use of polling?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think three things.

0:01.3

Only ever three.

0:02.2

You only think three.

0:03.4

I'm sure you got a lot more thoughts on that I had.

0:06.2

Four, four holes.

0:07.4

Four.

0:08.4

Okay, all right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Hello and we've got a lot to cover today.

0:23.2

First and foremost, this is our Michigan Primary Reaction Podcast.

0:27.6

On Tuesday night, both Trump and Biden easily won their respective primaries in the state.

0:33.0

We're going to take a look under the hood

0:34.6

and make sense of some of the discontent in both parties.

0:38.5

The uncommitted vote on the Democratic side

0:40.4

received about 13% support. That vote was largely organized by activists who

0:45.6

disapprove of Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamass war. And on the Republican side,

0:50.2

Haley once again over-performed her polls and got about 27% of the vote.

0:56.0

We're also going to turn our gaze to Washington, where we are just days away from a partial government

1:02.0

shutdown, and that's just the first in a series of

1:04.6

deadlines that Congress has to meet to keep the government funded and running.

1:09.6

Also both Biden and Trump are heading to the southern border on Thursday to talk about immigration.

1:15.5

Perhaps they've been looking at the polls. A new Gallup poll came out this week showing that

1:20.3

immigration has supplanted the economy as the most important problem facing the country.

1:25.7

So we're going to talk about it.

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