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...At 11.30am ET, Trump had won 68.2 per cent of the Republican vote, while Haley had won 26.6 per cent — showing that he also faces defections from within his party....
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll was conducted online by Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research between April 4-8....
...him in November, and he wouldn’t get the message,” said Andy Levin, a former Democratic congressman who had encouraged party members to vote uncommitted....
...Montana senator Steve Daines, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has revived the power of the party boss as he takes charge of the Republican Senate primaries....
...Today we’re talking about: Turmoil at the Republican National Committee — and the Democrats’ glee What voters say about US aid to Ukraine Citadel chief Ken Griffin’s US election prediction The Democratic...
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll was conducted online by Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research between February 29 and March 4....
...Unions and even some members of Biden’s Democratic party have been critical of the White House move this year to halt new exports of liquefied natural gas, saying it could hurt local industry....
...The proportion blaming Democratic policies, meanwhile, has remained constant at 38 per cent....
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll, part of a series that will continue monthly until presidential elections in November, was conducted online by Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling...
...Because he is an incumbent president running for re-election, Biden had already secured the backing of the Democratic National Committee, the party apparatus, last year, allowing him to build his campaign...
...Although independent and third-party candidates have little hope of winning the US presidency, they can still pull votes from Democratic and Republican nominees, tipping the scales in tight contests....
...But she faces an uphill battle: the Colorado state Republican Party endorsed Trump before the contest even began....
...The war is increasingly unpopular among the Democratic base — particularly in Michigan (home to a large Arab-American population), which holds its primary today....
...“Biden has had the benefit of leading his party and all its apparatus.” The prosecutions against Trump helped him in the Republican presidential primary, as even his rivals came to his defence....
...The Democratic and Republican nominees are joined by the dynastic Robert F Kennedy Jr and leftist academic Cornel West running as independents, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein....
...Which raises the question why Republicans are pushing so hard on a sure election loser. The answer is that the party’s evangelical tail is wagging the party’s dog....
...Biden has also come under fire from parts of the Democratic party for his support for Israel during its war in Gaza....
...Republican party, told the FT’s Christopher Grimes....
...Biden, for example, won 95 per cent of the Democratic primary vote in South Carolina and over 80 per cent in Michigan, despite the pushback around US policy in Gaza. Why is this?...
...“If Donald Trump is at the top of the Republican ticket, the risk of one-party rule by a Democratic party captured by the Progressive Left is severe and would do irreparable damage to the country,” Seidel...
...“I don’t necessarily think people will switch to the Democratic party,” says Susy Avery, former Republican party chair in the perennial battleground state of Michigan....
...It all came crashing down in Chicago, in 1968, when the Democratic party self-immolated over the Vietnam war....
...Biden has dominated the Democratic party’s early primary races, as incumbent presidents often do, and faces no serious challenger....
...In Michigan, the polls said 57, but he won by a “mere” 42....
...But primary voters in places such as South Carolina and Michigan were not going to be “any less favourable towards Trump”....
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