BREAKING: Biden wins Michigan primary, NBC News projects, a potentially fatal blow to Sanders’ hopes.
Biden led polls of Michigan heading into the day. Sanders, looking for a spark for his campaign, hoped to duplicate 2016, when surveys showed him trailing Hillary Clinton by a wide margin before he narrowly won the state., and not only because it awards 125 pledged delegates, the most of the six states voting on Tuesday. Biden won at least 53 delegates compared to Sanders' 41, according to an early NBC tally.
Winning the critical general election state was seen as helping Sanders slow Biden's roll toward the nomination. Biden's bid for the White House was revived when a handful of presidential rivals and a slew of Democratic officials began backing him before and after his victory in the South Carolina primary 10 days ago.
, along with another state favorable to Sanders in Washington, was expected to all but crush the senator's hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination.Sanders hammered into Biden for supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement , which he has criticized as a job killer in Michigan's auto industry. He also highlighted past Biden comments suggesting he would freeze Social Security benefits — messaging indicating the Sanders campaign saw the need to cut into the former vice president's support among older and white working class voters to win the state.
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