Pennsylvania Primary: Good performance from… Nikki Haley!

Nearly two months after dropping out of the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley is back. He received more than 155 thousand votes, or 16.5%., during the Republican primary elections held on Tuesday in the state of Pennsylvania, whose participation was reserved for the voters of this party. The former US ambassador to the United Nations won one in four or one in five votes in some key counties in this swing state. Donald Trump, who won 83.5% of the vote, may regret not making any gesture to attract Republican or independent supporters of his latest competitor.

Joe Biden, he is pick up The Democratic primary in his home state, with 93.1 votes compared to 6.9% for Minnesota Democratic Representative Dean Phillips. A group led by Arab-American and Muslim voters I encouraged Democratic voters in the Keystone State must write “NO JOE” or “NO COMMITMENT” on their ballot. It is still too early to know the results of this appeal.

The president spent the day in Florida, where he blamed Trump for banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, a ban that the Supreme Court recently upheld (while greenlighting an abortion referendum in November).

“Next week, one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country will go into effect here in Florida,” Biden said. “It criminalizes reproductive health care even before a woman knows if she is pregnant. Let's be clear. There is someone responsible for this nightmare. He knew it and bragged about it. Donald Trump.”

A final word on Pennsylvania's Democratic primary: Progressive Rep. Summer Lee, who is defending her Pittsburgh-area seat for the first time, He survived To his conflict with the moderate candidate, Bhavini Patel, who is largely funded by one of the Republican Party's largest donors, billionaire Jeff Yates, who lives in Pennsylvania. Patel attacked Lee for his strong opposition to the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

Lee won the primary by 21.2 percentage points.

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