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Michigan Top Prize Among Six States Holding Democratic Nominating Contests

Ken Bredemeier

   Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is looking for another strong
   showing Tuesday in six more Democratic presidential primaries against
   Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as the two candidates vie to oppose
   President Donald Trump in November's national election.

   Biden won 10 of the 14 party primaries last week over Sanders. Advance
   polling shows him doing well in the Midwestern state of Michigan, the
   country's auto manufacturing hub, where 125 delegates are at stake to
   the party's national nominating convention in July, the biggest prize
   in Tuesday's voting.

   The political polling also shows Biden, in his third run for the
   presidency over three decades, doing better or even with Sanders, a
   self-declared democratic socialist, in the five other states with
   Democratic primaries: Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Idaho and
   Washington. The five states and Democrats living overseas collectively
   control another 240 delegates to the national convention.

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