BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – The winners of Tuesday’s Michigan Presidential Preference Primary both carried Branch County.
Former President Donald Trump got 4,084 votes in Branch County while Nikki Haley had 1,142 votes.
Trump won Michigan with 68 percent of the vote compared to Haley’s 27 percent.
This vote could be considered as advisory only, for state Republicans will be determining committed delegates to this August’s national convention in Milwaukee during rival caucuses on Saturday.
The official party, as determined by the Republican National Committee and headed by former Holland Congressman Pete Hoekstra, will meet in Grand Rapids, while former state party chairwoman Kristina Karamo has a separate gathering in Detroit.
President Biden captured the Michigan Democratic primary with 81 percent of the vote. Efforts by the Arab-American community to persuade state Democrats to vote uncommitted, in protest of the White House’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, led to 13 percent uncommitted votes in Michigan.
In Branch County, Biden had 1,193 votes with 208 voters casting an uncommitted ballot.
In local ballot issues, the Reading Community Schools Operating Millage Increase Proposal failed by 30 votes. The question to raise taxes by one mill for seven years was voted down 491-461.
Meanwhile, the Camden-Frontier School Operating Millage Renewal Proposal passed 398-241.
There were a total of 5,493 ballots cast in Branch County on the Republican side while 1,523 voted on the Democratic side.
Just over 20 percent of registered voters in Branch County cast ballots.
(WHTC’s Gary Stephens contributed to this story)
Are we sure or does the Clerk want to call a friend and make some adjustments like she had to in a prior election??