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George II

(67,782 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 11:48 AM Feb 2020

Tlaib's primary result in 2018:

She won the primary by 900 votes, got less than 1/3 of the votes.

Rashida Tlaib 31.2 27,841
Brenda Jones 30.2 26,941
Bill Wild 14.1 12,613
Coleman Young II) 12.5 11,172
Ian Conyers 5,861
Shanelle Jackson 5.4 4,853

Total votes: 89,281

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msongs

(67,395 posts)
5. because good democrats voted for their candidate over the republican even tho she was
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 02:10 PM
Feb 2020

wanted by less than 32% of the voters in the primary because they were stuck with her

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,338 posts)
6. There are no Republican voters in her gerrymandered district.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 02:11 PM
Feb 2020

Well, ok, I exaggerate, a little. But, Repubs were in charge of creating district boundaries, so they arranged a few districts to hold as high a concentration of dems as possible, so repubs could win the highest number of districts.

As drawn, a republican would have zero chance of winning Tlaib's district. I don't know if they bother to run in that district, it's a waste of money and effort for them.

edit to confirm: no Republican ran in MI-13 district in 2018.

George II

(67,782 posts)
12. Rashida Tlaib won her primary by only 900 votes with only 31% of the vote. Her most prominent....
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 06:06 PM
Feb 2020

....opponent defeated her by about 1700 votes in the special election to complete Conyers's term. The regular primary (on the same day) for the current session was split among 6 candidates, which is why there was a different result.

The result this year will be much different.

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