… Brandenburg, the CDU vote fell from 23 percent in 2014 to 15.6 percent, while the vote for the AfD nearly doubled, from … election for the Bürgerschaft; after all, it had won only 15.9 percent of the vote in the previous election and Hamburg … less than Merz but twice the level of support—10 to 15 percent—for Laschet. On Saturday, 1001 CDU delegates met …