Fox 2 News Headlines: Primary Results Are In

The primary was held in Detroit yesterday and the results are in! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I've gotten so many applications already. I'm so happy. He
Sometimes we don't. Sometimes it's like it is.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sometimes it's a close start. Yeah, it's a lot. So
let's see the Detroit mayoral race down to two. Primary
day results are in and the race to replace Mike
Duggan as Detroit mayor is now between two candidates, Detroit
City Council President Mary Sheffield, who led with the majority
of first place votes, and Triumph Church pastor Reverend Solomon Kinlock.

(00:52):
So those are the two as we head into November.
The big story is the low voter turnout across the trade,
which it's never great, but.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Just it was not there. It's just not a lot
of people.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I saw Charlie Langton yesterday live and he just said,
he just admitted, he said that there's nobody out here today.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Well, yeah, I saw a story this morning where he
was interviewing like five guys and none of them voted,
and he's like, why won't you get out and vote,
and they're all just like, hey, yeah. They didn't really
have a reason.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
It was just like, yeah, is there was there not
enough I saw.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
I don't live into I don't live in Detroit, but
I mean I saw some commercials for some people. But
when you said it, I was like, oh, like, I
didn't know, and it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Really my business to know.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
But if this were if there were a primary in
Ipsey and Arbor, yeah, I might not know that either.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know, here's what I think. I think it might be.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I feel like it might be a little bit of
Sometimes people feel more mobilized to come together and vote
when they feel really strong about it. Yeah, and I'm
not saying that you don't feel strong about this, but
if it's a prime, this was my opinion. I think
if there's a primary coming up and you're just kind of,
you know, the top vote getters will get to be
in the election that you're going to vote for in November.

(02:08):
I think the mentality might be, like, I'll go to
that election, i'll vote, I'll vote when it gets down
to the important.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I think it's that. I just think it might be
that I felt that way before. One of the things.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Activist Robert Davis is back in court suing Detroit City
Clerk and election commissions over the way absentee ballots were handled.
He claims officials refused to give him a list of
those collecting ballots, which he says the public has a
legal right to review. A judge ruled that he can
absolutely inspect the lists and will hold further hearings if

(02:38):
issues arise. As I watched it yesterday, basically, he's going
into a precinct saying, let me see the list, and
they either didn't show them the list, or when they
did show them the list, it just had names and
not addresses, and you have to have.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
The addresses match.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
So that was that was that story, and voters in
Novi passed the ballot proposal to fun construction of a
new public safety complex for the city's police department. The
measure passed with fifty five percent of the vote. I
didn't hear anything about Sheets anywhere yesterday. Oh nothing, No
bowel proposals.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's good that the main election full ahead. Sheets is
rust and easy. Yeah, Sheets is all in. They're ready
to go. Thank god for that.