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Biden wins Michigan Democratic primary, NBC News projects Biden wins the Michigan Democratic primary over Sanders, NBC News projects. With 125 delegates up for grabs, Michigan offers the biggest pledged delegate prize of the six states holding Democratic contests on Tuesday night. With more than half of the vote counted, Biden led Sanders 53 percent to 41 percent. As of 9:05 p.m. ET, NBC News projected that Biden will be awarded 38 pledged delegates from the state and Sanders will be awarded 33. The NBC News exit poll from Michigan shows that Biden won the state with two-thirds of black voters, two-thirds of voters age 45 or over, 63 percent of moderates and conservatives, and 63 percent of voters who made up their minds this month. Biden was also the clear favorite of voters looking for someone who can unite the country (82 percent) and voters whose top priority is beating Donald Trump (61 percent). Share this -







Massive swing in large Michigan county from 2016 to 2020 could spell bad news for Sanders Michigan results are trickling in as the final polls closed, and results in one large county show a huge swing from 2016 to 2020. In Kalamazoo County — home of Western Michigan University and one of the state's 10 largest counties — Sanders is currently up by less than a point over Biden. In 2016, when Sanders narrowly won the state, the Vermont senator won that county by nearly 23 points. As is, Biden holds a nearly 10 point lead in the state with 32 percent of precincts reporting. Share this -







NBC News Exit Poll: Biden continues to run up score in South with win in Mississippi Joe Biden added another Southern state to his primary scorecard tonight, scoring a huge win in the Mississippi primary contest. NBC News projected that Biden was the winner in the state at poll close. According to results from the NBC News Exit Poll, the former vice president enjoyed a solid backing from the state’s sizable African American electorate, as we all as a strong showing among ideological moderates and those who attend religious services weekly or more. Biden was the clear favorite among most demographic groups, including whites (66 percent), voters with no college degree (78 percent) and liberal voters (66 percent). But even as Biden racked up support among a broad coalition of voters, Sanders outperformed his 2016 margins among some groups. In 2016, Clinton bested Sanders among liberal voters, as well as those younger than 45, but Sanders fared better among these groups compared to his lackluster performance among older, more moderate-leaning groups. Today, Sanders improved his margins among both groups, seeing double-digit increases in support among voters who consider themselves liberal on political matters, as well as those younger than 45. But these gains were offset by the fact that tonight’s Mississippi Democratic primary electorate skewed older and more moderate than it did in 2016. Share this -







NBC News Exit Poll: In Missouri, fewer under 45 and black voters compared to 2016 There have been some shifts in the demographic profile of Missouri's primary voters since that 2016, when a razor thin margin of just over 1,000 votes separated Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the state. Compared to four years ago, today’s Missouri Democratic electorate has fewer voters younger than 45, fewer black voters, and fewer self-described liberals, according to the NBC News Exit Poll results. It also has slightly fewer first time primary voters than in 2016. Share this -







Amid coronavirus outbreak, Trump still doesn't have any rallies planned Vice President Mike Pence was asked at the White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday whether the campaign will continue to have rallies amid coronavirus concerns. He told reporters: "I think that'll be a decision that’s made literally on a day-to-day basis" and "I’m very confident that the campaign will take the very best information and make the very best decision going forward." The situation is clearly very fluid, given that the Trump campaign said they "expected" to reveal on Tuesday where the next rally would be but that was before the Biden and Sanders campaigns canceled their respective events in Ohio tonight. Of course, the day is not over so this Trump campaign announcement could still come but wanted everyone to have the proper context going into any such development. See below for more on the events the campaign has "postponed" in recent days citing "scheduling conflicts," despite a claim they are "proceeding normally" (a "Women for Trump" bus tour through MI, WI, PA this week and a rare FLOTUS fundraiser in Beverly Hills on March 18). No information yet on future dates for either of these. Share this -







NBC News Exit Poll: In primaries so far, Democratic anger toward Trump highest in Washington Over the course of the primary season, about 2 in 3 Democratic primary voters have said they feel angry about Donald Trump’s administration, while 1 in 4 are dissatisfied, and only 8 percent report having positive views of the current president, according to results from the NBC News Exit Poll. In states voting today, feelings of anger range from 83 percent of primary voters in Washington to 49 percent in Mississippi, early results from the NBC News Exit Poll found. Missouri and Michigan are on par with the primary average to date. Prior to today’s contests, the highest level of anger toward Trump was 79 percent in New Hampshire’s primary. Democrats in Southern states have tended to express lower levels of anger about the current administration. The level in Mississippi’s electorate is just slightly above the low of 47 percent registered in South Carolina’s primary. Share this -







Michigan not expected to report primary results until Wednesday afternoon A spokesperson for Michigan’s office of the secretary of state — which runs the state's elections — said on a conference call Tuesday night that they don’t expect to have full reporting of the results from the state’s Democratic primary until the early afternoon of Wednesday, due to a wide disparity in how fast precincts are able to count votes. Earlier Tuesday, Michigan’s office of the secretary of state said that it was expecting delays in the reporting of results of its primary Tuesday night due to the huge backlog of absentee votes. Since Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson took office in 2019, Michigan has expanded voting options for citizens, including giving all voters the option to vote by mail and later voter registration. That, however, has led to the state sending off nearly 1 million absentee ballots for the 2020 primary, with more than 800,000 of them already returned. That number includes the 36,574 ballots that were already spoiled — a unique rule in Michigan that allows residents who have already cast an absentee to change their vote But under Michigan law, absentee ballots can't even be opened until Election Day morning, leading to fears of long delays before precincts can produce a final count. "Current state law hasn't really caught up," Jake Rollow, a spokesperson for Benson's office, told NBC News. Share this -





