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The Michigan Presidential Primary
Michiganders will vote in the state's presidential primaries on Tuesday, March 10. This is after the four early states vote over this month (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina) and one week after Super Tuesday on March 3 when 14 states vote. Michigan has a closed primary system requiring voters to declare which party's ballot they wish to vote. You can only select a ballot for one party but can select either the Republican Party ballot or the Democratic Party ballot. Which ballot you select (but not who you vote for) is public information subject to disclosure.
Libertarians: There will not be a Libertarian presidential primary in Michigan. Libertarians will select their nominee at a national convention in late May.
Republicans: There will be a Republican presidential primary in Michigan. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ignored the wishes of the Michigan Republican Party who only wanted Trump to appear on the ballot by approving three other candidates (Weld, Sanford, and Walsh) to contest Michigan's GOP delegates. However the Michigan Republican Party set a new rule that requires a candidate to get at least 20% of the vote to earn any of the state's delegates. This likely assures that all Michigan's Republican delegates will go to Trump.
Democrats: Democrats will have 15 candidates on Michigan's primary ballot including several who have suspended their campaigns. January polling of likely Democratic primary voters showed that Biden had a large lead in Michigan -double digits ahead of Sanders and Warren at #2 and #3 respectively, and far ahead of Buttigieg at #4. Bloomberg, a late entry into the race, has largely ignored the early states and Michigan and is focusing most of his spending on the Super Tuesday states.
Crossovers: Because Michigan doesn't have party registration, our state has a long history of crossovers voting another party's presidential primary ballot to create an upset. This happened most recently in 2016 when Sanders defeated Clinton despite all polls suggesting Clinton would win Michigan's Democratic primary. If Sanders does well this month and on Super Tuesday, he may again benefit from strategic crossover votes in Michigan as he's polling lower than Biden in hypothetical matchups against Trump for the general election.
Michigan's primary should receive a lot of national attention as no Democratic candidate is likely to be close to securing the nomination by March 10 and Michigan is one of four key toss up states that are expected to determine the outcome in November. If you are not registered to vote yet, you can do so HERE. You must be a registered voter by the end of this week to participate in the Michigan 2020 presidential primary.
