It was a big night at the ballot box Tuesday for political outsiders and the angry voters they’re inspiring — and with the wins piling up, establishment politicians seem to be getting increasingly nervous.
Billionaire Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter discontent with the Washington establishment and deep anxiety over the economy to victory in Michigan’s primary election Tuesday, exit polls showed.
Despite their vast differences, both Trump and Sanders were the overwhelming favorites among voters who said the next president should be a political outsider.
Trump won Michigan with 36.5% of the vote over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, 24.9%, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 24.3%. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished fourth at a meager 9.4%.
For Sanders, the contest was closer — 49.8% for Sanders, 48.3% for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Trump and Sanders benefited in the state from a widespread belief that international trade does more harm than good in an area struggling to overcome a Rust Belt legacy of manufacturing jobs outsourced to low-wage countries. More than half the voters in both parties described trade as a job killer. Of those, six in 10 Democrats supported Sanders. Trump far outpolled the other Republican candidates among voters with the same opinion.
Sanders’ populist theme struck a chord, as more than eight in 10 Michigan Democrats said the U.S. economic system generally favors the wealthy, and just over half of those voters backed the Vermont senator.
Trump backers seemed more enthusiastic than supporters of other candidates. Two-thirds of those favoring Trump said they strongly backed him, compared to about four in 10 of those voting for the other Republicans. Three in 10 of those voting for other candidates said they did so with reservations. And just under three in 10 of those who voted for someone other than Trump said they based the vote on dislike for other candidates rather than support for their choice.
Elsewhere in the country, Trump also won the primaries in Mississippi and Hawaii, while rival Cruz scored a win in Idaho. On the Democratic side, Clinton won in Mississippi.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Sanders got the working class vote to protest Hillary. Most of them will vote for Trump in November. The same in Massachusetts.
Think you’re right on. So dislike Hillary and God help us should she be the next President!!!
agreed
She, or the socialist, are both a path towards destruction.
“At this moment in history, we stand at an historic crossroads; one path leads to a morass of despair and destruction; the other leads to total annihilation. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
~Woody Allen, from a comedy skit in the 60’s? 70’s?
I am praying that you are right!
Working people need to make a stand. All these people on the Government milk need to get a job.
Hate to break your analytical bubble… but, if you are voting for Bernie in primaries, why would you vote for Trump in the election, doesn’t make any sense. Also Some states don’t allow you to switch parties after you have voted in the primaries. Not sure about about MI tho.
“Also Some states don’t allow you to switch parties after you have voted in the primaries” ????
Sounds like what you are saying is that if one votes in Dem primary they cannot vote for a Republican in the national vote in November. In some states like NJ, once you declare a party affiliation you can’t vote in the other party’s primary UNLESS you officially change your affiliation PRIOR to the primary vote.
Republican party heavy weights have crapped on the people too many times. They have lied and cheated. None of the republicans have stood up and made a stand for America. This is why Trump is having his success. On the other side Bernie is doing well because Hilary has broken all rules for here self interest.
THE MIDDLE CLASS IS TALKING AND I THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME. IT IS WE THE PEOPLE NOT THEM THE POLITICIANS!!
I am tired of reading the percentages …. give us the actual vote counts … for all involved … in all states …. who is ahead of whom (regardless of party affiliation) ?
Totally agree
Ask & you shall receive. Just got this email link yesterday. Since you asked:
http://townhall.com/election/2016/primary-results
The actual VOTE count, DON’T matter since the votes of the people AREN’T what elects the candidate.
Its the Delegates that do the actual election results.
In one of the early primaries, the democrat delegates couldn’t decide wither to give the delegate vote to Hillary or Sanders. SO, they flipped a coin and gave it to Hillary.
Now, is it just my way of thinking or is flipping a coin to decide who will be the better president/commander in chief
a MAJOR Problem with this country as a whole, and the DELEGATES system of electing a candidate OUTDATED and should be removed in favor of, only the Citizens VOTE that elects every candidate. Again, Where is WE THE PEOPLE ???
YEAH. Finally someone who thinks like I do. The delegates are all in cahoots with the wealthy who REALLY run our country. The power SHOULD belong to the PEOPLE.
I too am in favor of reverting our votes back to we the people and do away with the delegate system. not fair to our country to have the say of who is elected by a hand full of people who we don’t know if they are voting the way WE want or if it’s the way THEY want. The way it is we actually have little or no say on the voting.Flipping a coin is hardly the way to run an election. Whille I am here I may as well say that I believe anyone running for any political office should have a thorough background check and a set and equal amount on which a candidate can spend on campains.
Last night’s victory by Sanders was the proverbial Shot across the Bow of Clinton and the Establishment Democrats. It should make for an interesting time leading up to the Democratic Convention.
Because of Benghazi, I can not trust Hillary, for Military Affairs.
As a Vietnam Veteran, I can not trust a Career Politician, who has no regard for the loss of a Government Employee (Ambassador) and Military Employees (Contractors).
Keoni May,
I am in total agreement with your lack of trust for Hillary. Not only did she not provide added security, when it was requested numerous times prior to the Benghazi attack, she lied to the families of the 4 individuals who were killed there. In an email to her daughter Chelsea Clinton, she admitted the attack was caused by terrorists. Yet she continued to perpetuate the lie that the attack was caused by an internet video.
She is a lying sleazebag … just like her husband! Anyone who votes for her is a “low information voter”!
Just like Trump. Trump is a bigot
1. Trump hates women – look haw he treated Magyn Kelly, Pregnant reporter who fainted, and Carly F
2. Trump hates Blacks – Trump Enterprizes under his watch had segregated housing,
– Trump buys politicians for his own benefit this is slavery
3. Trump hates Hispanics – Border crossers are mostly poor people wanting to shelter, feed and clothe their children. They are not rapist (rapist harm people sexually). They are not Drug Cartel (Drug cartel sell drugs and kill people). They are not terrorist (terrorist kill people).
4. Trump hates Asian people – Chinese and Japanese do not control N Korea. N Korea’s dictator does.
5. Trump hates Jews – “Hitler was right”. Hitler’s claim to fame is scapegoating Jews for Germany’s problems. Then systematically killing them. Trump follows the pattern of Hitler including brainwashing and playing on hatred.
6. Trump hates Muslims – Trump treats Muslim like Hitler did Jews. American Muslims are mostly good citizens. ISIS are (a compound word) Radical – Islamic – Terrorist. RIT kill both non Muslims and Muslims who believe differently than themselves. Mislabeling the enemy is only setting us up for loosing the war.
7. Trump hates constitutional rights – Picking on Religious groups is unconstitutional.
– Natural born citizen means either a person born on American soil or having a parent who is a citizen.
8. Trump slanders everyone even his own “If I shoot some one my followers would not leave me”. That is arrogant. Trump’s supporters can not be all like that.
9. Trump is spoiled rotten – His supporters belittle people who put him down, Trumpsters slander that same person.
10. Trump throws Temper Tantrums – When he does not get his way he slanders and makes insinuations of being less than acceptable. Trump when confronted does the same thing. Trump treats his competitors the same way.
11. Trump is a bully – slandering and belittling are his tools of bullying.
12. Trump uses not PC as an excuse for disrespect. PC is politically CORRECT not polite. Ben Carson is not PC while being respectful.
13. Trump is the king of Liberals. He only started being not Liberal when he ran for president.
14. Trump says what Americans want to hear and does his own thing.
15. England voted whether they should ban him. Not good to have allies reject president.
Trump is the best leader in America
You may exaggerate his words for the establishments sake
As a lifetime Republican and Goldwater through Romney backer. I and most all of my acquaintences will vote for no one but Trump
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah , your stupid and a total liar ……. GO TRUMP : ) : )
Lois, thank you for listing all those pluses for Trump. Wow, where do you find all that stuff?
Lois you keep voting for the establishment, by the way how has that worked out so far? People like you are who the media feeds off. Open your eyes we are 19 trillion in debt, senior on SS are being screwed. Vets getting a raw deal. 30+% unemployment. We the people are being victims of corruption. …… Love him or hate him. He will fix this country….
Oh lord she’s back.
You are wrong about what constitutes a natural born citizen. Cruz and Rubio are both naturalized citizens, not natural born citizens. I would suggest reading Vittel’s “Law of Nations”, Bastiat’s “The Law,” The National Center for Constitutional Studies “The Making of America,” and various Supreme Court decisions regarding what is a natural born citizen.
Darl-
Rubio is a 14th Amendment citizen; all that’s required for that citizenship is that they be born on US soil, doesn’t matter to whom. These, not being “natural born,” are barred from the presidency.
Cruz was born in Canada and remained a Canadian citizen until 2014; can’t say what is actual status is, in that he apparently has found a way to “seal” his records like D’OweBama did, but at best, he might be a naturalized citizen(although they are supposed to apply, study, take a test and an oath of loyalty prior to that status being granted), and as a naturalized citizen of a foreign country, he’s barred from the presidency.
i didn’t like either, so i’m mighty glad they’re out, despite what the victims of teevee programming might have been deceived into (what passes for) thinking.
This is all BS and you know it. Trump is the only way to go. He is the ONLY one that I feel loves his country. The rest could care less.
Lois Wenk – You have made a so-called very inaccurate list that smacks of lies!! You didn’t research enough. We’ve had enough of hateful lying Hillary! We want to see and hear positive remarks for TRUMP – We will be voting for TRUMP, no matter anyone says about him – We trust him, and feel he is right for us TRUE Americans who love America, and want all to be unified, and work together to make America Great!! God bless you.
Amen brother. It amazes me the stupidity of people that trust her. I would like one person to tell me one thing she has done in the best interest of the people. She is a traitor feeding information to the wrong people on her private server. Just like Obama protects the people that wants to bring harm to America.
The professional politicians should be worried. People are tired of politics as usual. We are tired of a bloated Federal government where bureaucracies actually run the country spending tons of money and creating rules and regulations while never accomplishing whatever they were created to do. And when their programs fail, the government’s typical solution to the problem is to spend more money and create more rules and regulations. Thomas Jefferson said ” The government that rules least, rules best”. Alexander Hamilton said “It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.” How many of the men who signed the Constitution could be labeled professional politicians? How did they each earn their livelihood?
Clinton is a fake and the well educated people knows she is a scam artist. The Hispanic and black voters from Obama should know he screwed them so why vote for Clinton for she will be just as bad. If a democrat is elected say goodbye to the middle class. Trump is our answer.
Republican is the solution. I voted for TED CRUZ!
No more lawyers and no more career politicians!! You don’t have to be a lawyer to lead the country, most people in real life don’t trust them so why do we vote them in as President so often???? My vote goes to the Donald
Why has our government gicen away all our jobs to foreigners when the majority of small businesses do not compete overseas?
American Business is Overwhelmingly Small Business. In 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, there were 5.73 million employer firms in the U.S. Firms with fewer than 500 workers accounted for 99.7 percent of those businesses, and businesses with less than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent.
So if only 10.4 percent of employess benefit by working for a company over 20 and most likely the vast mojority fo companies from 1-500 do not do overseas business, then lets shut down foreign trade and charge the largest taxes we can on foreign imports. Cancel out our trade deficit to China 580 Nillion and trade losses to Mexico 58 Billion, and we could nearly balance the national deficit.
Um has me wondering why Mr. Trumps picture isn’t up there as well. Just wondering.
Whatever happened i am for donald trump….go go go go donald trump….
I would like to know why my post are not showing up.
oh now they do um should i believe something fishy is going on ?
Beat Up Old T/SGT
Hopefully enough Americans are waking up to the dead serious situation that our beautiful country is in. The Wash. crowd thinks nothing of throwing us under the bus, for their own
“Believe” we are in deep trouble. Our “CITICENS are being slaughtered. , our borders are ignored, our president ignores the constitution, WE ARE at war in our own country .The police are being attacked- the list goes on–And the present admin. does nothing about these things They only want to pass more ineffectual laws. that apply only to honest people, not the idiots/criminals!! Never mind being Denocrat,Republican, lib. ind.,whatever think about what it”s going to takt o get AM. back on track !!!!!!!!!!!
When establishment Republicans say they would vote for Hillary is sending the American people that they will do ANYTHING to keep the corruption and pay offs going. IIf the elites will spend hundreds of millions to stop him is an insult that they think We the people will follow them. I truly believe that Washington elites are so afraid that if TRUMP is elected many of these career politicians will be going to jail when the truth is uncovered. The question is how much more money and power are they going to steal. Plain English if you don’t vote TRUMP you can kiss this country’s economy and security goodbye.
If the Republican Convention (the establishment) pulls a fast one and forces Trump out, no matter if the votes of the people are in favor of him. I am leaving the Republican Party for some other party maybe an Independent from now on.
I am voting for Republican, TED CRUZ. HE has an excellent track record. I believe he can make this country great. He has compassion, wisdom, and getting bills passed, and is a great Senator, though he doesn’t have money like TRUMP BUT WILL be determined to get this country back on the right track. http://www.TedCruz.org
How dare any party negate the want of the people. It is apparent that the people want Trump. Who are the republican establishment to dictate we can’t have who we want. The Republican party better be careful..if this happens,
.there may not be many who will want to be a part of this type of dictatorship.
Trump is no Obama nor a Hillary, and, that makes him a candidate to look at. At least he has said he will try and stop the bleeding—no one else is even offering bandages. Remember when Hillary ran against Obama in Ohio, and, she won? A lot of folks voted for her because they didn’t want Obama. Sanders and Hillary now reversed. And, does it not seem strange that all the candidates seem to favor the working people and their values and ethics, but, most of them have really never had to work at work and live from pay check to pay check? Is the American political way? Maybe that is why Washington lives in a great white palace with benefits none of us can ever imagine or have; pick pockets would be another nickname for them.