On Wisconsin. Voters send a message to Biden and Trump.
The number of uninstructed votes in Wisconsin surpasses Biden's margin of victory in 2020.
Voters in Tuesday’s primaries sent a strong message to Biden and Trump.
Give us somebody else.
Voters who marked their ballots "uninstructed delegation" in Wisconsin's presidential primary Tuesday more than doubled the 20,682 votes President Joe Biden won the state by in 2020.
In Wisconsin, "uninstructed delegation" took 48,093 votes, or 8.3% on the Democratic side, with 99% of the vote reported by Wednesday afternoon.
The vote was intentional and was aimed at Biden's support of Israel’s indiscriminate attack on innocents in Gaza and the West Bank.
The "Listen to Wisconsin" campaign echoed other states like Michigan and Minnesota, where a similar "uncommitted" option took about 13% and 19% of the vote in the Democratic primary, respectively.
Wisconsin's 8.4% percentage"uncommitted" vote was significant but was not even as large as in other states that held primaries Tuesday. In Connecticut, the uncommitted delegation was at 11.4% Wednesday afternoon with 98% of the vote in. In Rhode Island, it was 14.9% with 99% of the vote in.
Fifteen percent of voters in New York City left their ballots blank.
Trump similarly encountered a protest vote of sorts.
With more than 76,000 Wisconsin GOP voters – 13 percent of the total – opting for Nikki Haley, even though she dropped out of the race last month.
The protest comes after a Wall Street Journal poll finding that Trump leads Biden in six of seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Wisconsin was the only state in which the two presumed candidates were tied.