With 95 percent of the votes counted from yesterday’s Michigan primary, over 101,000 people were found to have cast “uncommitted” ballots in protest of Biden’s Israel-Hamas war policies.
The figure is far more than the 21,000 who voted “uncommitted” in the Michigan primary when Democratic President Barack Obama ran for re-election in 2012.
However, it only amounted to 13% of yesterday’s voters.
Before the primary, analysts speculated that a total of 10 to 15% uncommitteds would be noteworthy, but unlikely to require a change in Biden’s approach, while anything above 15% would require minor adjustments, and anything above 20% to demand major shifts in the US stance on the Gaza war.
Notably, Biden still won 81% of the vote, compared to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who won 68% of the vote, besting Nikki Haley by 41 percentage points.
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