WASHINGTON —Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win Michigan’s primary election according to the Associated Press, further cutting into Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s path to nomination. Michigan handed Sanders an odds-defying win in 2016, despite polls that had him trailing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by more than 20 points. An overwhelming number of white working-class voters who opposed free trade deals supported Sanders and solidified his candidacy as competitive. The same couldn’t be said for Tuesday’s contest. Biden was able to connect with voters in a way Clinton could not. While Clinton was unable to appeal to non-college educated voters, Biden’s pitch as blue collar “Middle-Class Joe” helped him in states similar to Michigan, like Massachusetts and Minnesota. Biden’s win there was as much as an upset to Sanders as it was a preview of what was to come just a week later. Sanders’s inability to turn out young voters in historic numbers, smaller numbers of Latino voters, coupled with Biden’s popularity among working class white voters helped boost the former vice president. Sanders’s popularity in the state was fractured—and his coalition was unable to pick up the pieces.
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