United states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn it is a wolverine kinda night, the crucial president ial Battleground State of michigan is weighing in tonight on the 2024 fight for the white house, sending messages just to both President Job for biden and donald trump. I head of their anticipated rematch in november. If youre just joining us, greetings, im jake tapper and im standing right in the cnn election center. President biden and former President Trump or both michigan primary winners tonight, but thats not the full story of these very significant context. I want you to take a look at the votes in the democratic race. Its a warning sign for President Biden there a protest vote for uncommitted gaining ground now this protest vote pushed by opponents of how President Biden is handling the israel hamas war. Many of them desire a permanent ceasefire and theyre demanding that the United States Government Cut military aid to israel. Lets take a look at these numbers wi
Wont be voting for joe biden in november. Well roll this into a vicory in november. That is the chair of the party before the states primary. Theyre expressing confidence democrats will turn out in november despite a sizable protest vote. President biden did win the state of michigan easily last night, but with more than 100,000 people casting ballots for uncommitted, mostly in protest over his handling of the israelhamas war. On the republican side, donald trump racked up another big victory over nikki haley, but with some big Warning Signs for him there as well. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 28th. With us the host of Way Too Early Jonathan Lemire, correspondent for bbc news katy kay, editor for the Washington Post david ig nase shus. Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, and from politico, sam stein. Were going to have Steve Kornacki waiting over at the board to break down the numbers for us. A couple headlines, a Big Uncommitted vote again
Testifying Behind Closed Doors this hour. What his testimony means for the house gops Impeachment Inquiry into his father. Plus, donald trump and President Biden claiming victory in michigans primaries, but the states voters did send Warning Signs to both campaigns. Also ahead, inferno on the panhandle, the governor of texas, issuing a Disaster Declaration as a raging wildfire threatens a Nuclear Weapons facility. The pope hospitalized early this morning, what we know about his condition at this hour. Thanks so much for joining us. Its good to be with you. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with the Breaking News from capitol hill where hunter biden is Behind Closed Doors this hour for a deposition with the House Oversight and judiciary committees. Now, todays testimony is the result of months of negotiations by House Republicans to compel the president s son to testify in their impeachment probe into his father. Lets go right to the hill and nbcs rya
Ruhle starts now. Starts now. Tonight, the results are in from michigan. What we learned from the biden and trump victories. Why nikki haley isnt going anywhere. In georgia, this witness was supposedly going to help oust the a fani willis, what his testimony did and didnt do. And she knows big tech and the man behind it better than anyone joins us live with her burn book as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We are now 250 days away from the election, my goodness, 252 days, that is when we are going to be talking a lot about the state of michigan. Tonight we saw michigans first vote of the 2024 race, it is democratic and primaries, nbc news is projecting donald trump has won the gop race, but around one third of Republican Voters cast their ballot for someone else. And they projected an easy when lehoux more than 40,000 votes committed after an organized effort to rebuke President Biden towards his policies in israel and gaza
At this time, nbc news projects that donald trump will win the Michigan Republican primary. That is our election projection, donald trump, the projected winner of the michigan primary. Nbc news can also now project that President Joe Biden will win the Michigan Democratic primary. Again joe biden projected winner of the Michigan Democratic primary. Lets head over to steve kornacki, who is where he always, iss post of the big board. Steve, what are the latest numbers . Here you can see, as you have been falling for the last hour, the story has been the difference between the polls being opened and closed in michigan. Its dire menominee, together 0. 5 of the state folks. Everything else has been closed for an hour, but none of the wisconsin Border Counties are closed, we can make that projection. But it has been evident to you if youve been watching for the last hour whats been happening here. And one of the things is as more vote has been coming in, it was initially very concentrated ri