BREAKING: Joe Biden wins Michigan primary, a major victory for the former vice president in a state won by Bernie Sanders in 2016
WASHINGTON —Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win Michigan’s primary election according to the Associated Press, further cutting into Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s path to nomination.
Biden was able to connect with voters in a way Clinton could not. While Clinton was unable to appeal to non-college educated voters, Biden’s pitch as blue collar “Middle-Class Joe” helped him in states similar to Michigan, like Massachusetts and Minnesota. Biden’s win there was as much as an upset to Sanders as it was a preview of what was to come just a week later.
And while the Sanders campaign boasts high favorability with voters of colors nationally, it was unable to match enthusiasm for Biden from black voters in a state where they make up a significant percentage of the voting population. Michigan’s African-American voters preferred Biden to Sanders by a stunning margin—41 percent to just 16 percent, according to recent polling by Detroit News/WDIV-TV.
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