President Joe Biden is projected to win Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary comfortably, despite a significant protest vote over his stance towards the war in Gaza.
Activists have spent recent weeks urging Democrats to vote “uncommitted”, and tens of thousands chose to do so.
That exceeded many expectations, though the latest CBS News projection suggests Mr Biden won 80% of the vote overall.
He thanked “every Michigander who made their voice heard today”.
In statement that did not reference the campaign against him, he hailed achievements of his administration in the state and launched an attack against his rival Donald Trump.
Mr Trump is also projected to win Tuesday’s Republican primary in the state, after what he called a “great day”. “We’re going to win big,” he told a campaign celebration event.
Results so far from the primary contests – which the US political parties use to select their presidential candidate – indicate that the two men are on course to face off in November’s general election, in a rematch of 2020.
Michigan is considered a critical swing state, which picked the winning president in the last two contests. It has the largest proportion of Arab-Americans in the country, but Mr Biden’s support for Israel during its military campaign in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza appears to have cost him support among that demographic.
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