– The auto vote –
A total of 150 Republican delegates are up for grabs Tuesday out of 1,237 needed to win the party’s nomination, compared to 166 out of 4,763 on the Democratic side.
Trump is leading in Michigan with 36 percent compared to 23 percent for Cruz, according to a recent Monmouth University poll. However rival John Kasich, the governor of neighboring Ohio, is hoping for a surprise after actively campaigning in Michigan.
There are no recent polls in Mississippi, but last month Trump largely dominated his rivals there.
For Democrats, Clinton is the favorite in both states. That is especially true in Mississippi where African American voters represent an important voting bloc. African Americans have voted by more than 80 percent for Clinton in other states of the South.
Michigan and the city of Detroit symbolize the heart of the US auto industry, and Clinton has accused Sanders of having voted against a federal intervention to save the sector in 2008/2009.
“I voted for the auto bailout and he voted against it,” she repeated Monday while visiting a small software firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Sanders did vote for it, but separately voted against funds whose main purpose was to assist financial institutions. Those funds however also ended up financing the auto industry bailout.
The Vermont senator stressed to voters that Clinton has supported free-trade agreements that he said has cost millions of jobs.
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