Earlier this month, ‘none of these candidates’ turned out to be a political spoiler for former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in the Nevada Republican primary. Even though her main rival, former president Donald Trump, opted not to participate in the state GOP’s caucus and Haley was essentially running unopposed in the primary, ‘none of these candidates’ trounced her by 33 points. An unnamed third party showed up on Tuesday night for the Democratic and Republican primaries in Michigan too, this time against the Democratic incumbent, President Joe Biden.
At the time of writing, ‘Uncommitted’ is teetering around 15 per cent of voters in the Michigan primary against Joe Biden. Progressive activists in the state, driven by young people and Arab Americans, organised the anti-Biden campaign as a form of protest against his administration’s position on the war in Gaza. If ‘Uncommitted’ surpasses that 15 per cent threshold, it will go into the Democratic National Convention with a delegate to its name.
Barack Obama lost dozens of delegates in the 2012 Democratic primary, but mostly from states with a large contingent of ‘Dixiecrats’ — conservative Democrats — who had largely started voting Republican by that point anyway.
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