When Doug Dern, chairman of the Natural Law Party of Michigan, received an email in January from a top strategist for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, he sensed it could be a game-changer for his small political group . Mr. Dern, a bankruptcy lawyer with a small practice outside Detroit, has spent 22 years…
Former President Donald J. Trump crowned a resounding victory among Republican delegates on Saturday during a raucous convention in Michigan that exposed a deep rift in the state party that threatens to fester in one of the key battleground states. Mr. Trump, the Republican front-runner, won at least 90 percent of the vote in all…
President Biden and his allies had reason for both hope and concern after a primary in Michigan that exposed the party’s painful divisions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and confronted him with the greatest level of Democratic opposition yet. He avoided the direst predictions of his worried supporters by winning Tuesday’s primary election 81 percent to…
In Tuesday night’s results in Michigan, about one in eight Democrats voted “non-committal” in the Democratic primary, a protest against the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel and the war in Gaza. In some predominantly Arab-American districts in Dearborn, about three in four Democrats voted “non-binding” in protest. It’s not entirely unusual for one in eight…
Former President Donald J. Trump won Michigan’s Republican presidential primary election on Tuesday, moving closer to a general election rematch against President Biden. Mr. Biden easily won his own primary, though he faced a groundswell of opposition from voters who are protesting his staunch support for Israel and its military campaign in Gaza by casting…
