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Michigan's Primary: Some will vote "Uncommitted" to protest Biden's Isreal stance
Hamas attack on Israel happened that killed 1,200 people and took some 240 hostage, per the Israeli government. Israel's military response in Gaza has since killed nearly 30,000 people, mostly women and children, according to the ministry of health in Gaza.
It may feel far away for some Americans, but Alawieh's city, Dearborn, has felt every death in Gaza deeply. It's home to one of the largest Arab American communities in the country.
Alawieh started getting calls from cousins, friends and acquaintances in Michigan who'd barely expressed an interest in politics.
"Those same people are reaching out to me right now saying, 'This is Biden's fault, what are we going to do to make sure Biden stops this?'" he said.
"Okay, so you have a community that is alienated, that Biden is alienating beyond what we can even capture in numbers," he said.
So he and other progressive organizers in the Detroit metro area are trying to create those numbers. He's a spokesperson for the Listen to Michigan movement, the self-described "multiracial and multifaith, anti-war campaign" that's encouraging Democrats and Independents to show up to the polls for Tuesday's primary.
But they're not getting out the vote for Biden, who Alawieh himself supported in 2020. They're urging voters to check the "uncommitted" box instead, as a way of protesting the Biden administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
NPR
Joe Biden has surrendered to the hard-Left
Was this the week in which the United States started to get tough on Israel? Perhaps. But it is truer to describe it as the week in which Joe Biden squinted under his eyebrows at the looming election and decided to put domestic politics first.
The battle for the White House will be bitter and Donald Trump, the presumed Republican candidate, is winning already. Voting intention data places him ahead of the incumbent. Trump also leads in every battleground state apart from Pennsylvania. Moreover, hard-Left Democrats are already nonplussed about their leader. In short, Biden appears to have concluded that the footage of wounded Palestinian civilians must vanish from TikTok.
In the war’s first phase, with his deployment of aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean and billions of dollars of military aid, he stood boldly in defence of democracy. But then he began to snark about “indiscriminate bombing” and Israel being “over the top”. In private, according to NBC, he took to calling Benjamin Netanyahu an “a--hole”. After that came the finger wagging about Rafah, the final redoubt of Hamas.
Americans instinctively understand what is at stake in Gaza. A study last month revealed that 80 per cent of the population supported Israel’s war against jihadism.
America’s opinion on Israel is irrelevant. What matters are the sentiments of certain constituencies in swing states such as Michigan and the energy of the progressive base of the party. Biden is fighting for his political life; he is allowing that to eclipse the plight of the Israelis who, in the real world, are fighting for theirs. If Biden were stronger, he wouldn’t need to sell Israel down the river. The Arab-American community accounts for a very small proportion of the voting public in Michigan. And if the country were energised behind the President, the progressives could be ignored. But 86 per cent of Americans think he is too old for the job.
Barack Obama once cautioned: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f--- things up”. From the disastrous Afghan withdrawal to the appeasement of Iran, Biden’s foreign policy has been one of indecision and weakness. The exception to this has been his fortitude on Israel. Now even that seems poised to crack.
The Telegraph
originally posted by: Threadbarer
I'm actually interested to see the outcome of this. I have a feeling that the number of "uncommitted" votes is going to be drastically lower than the media or social media thinks.
originally posted by: BustedBoomer
a reply to: [post=27312042]Dandandat3[/post
Primaries are just posing in this case. Let them see Trump's plans for Muslims in America before the final.
Michigan governor says not voting for Biden over Gaza war ‘supports second Trump term’
Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor, pushed back on calls to not vote for Joe Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying on Sunday that could help Trump get re-elected.
“It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote that’s not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,” she said on Sunday during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “A second Trump term would be devastating. Not just on fundamental rights, not just on our democracy here at home, but also when it comes to foreign policy. This was a man who promoted a Muslim ban.”
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originally posted by: Dandandat3
originally posted by: Threadbarer
I'm actually interested to see the outcome of this. I have a feeling that the number of "uncommitted" votes is going to be drastically lower than the media or social media thinks.
I tend to agree; media or social media appear to be inflating the amount of support for Gaza and against Israel.
The number of "uncommitted" votes in Michigan would be a good indicator of media bias on the subject.
Rashida Tlaib and 'uncommitted' voters are delivering a major rebuke to Biden over Israel — and it could make him lose Michigan to Trump in 2024
President Joe Biden may have handily won the Michigan Democratic primary on Tuesday, but the results came with a significant warning sign for his continued support for Israel.
As of 9:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, over 20,000 voters had cast "uncommitted" ballots, accounting for over 15% of the vote, according to Decision Desk HQ.
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originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: Dandandat3
You'd have to be an idiot to vote for a President who has caused prices of common goods and services to increase by 30% to 40% in just 3 years!
However, Trump exaggerated the scale of the food price increase. The lowest figure Trump offered, 40%, is about twice as high as the actual rate of increase under Biden.
Last year, U.S. consumers saw the largest annual increase in food prices since the 1980s. While food prices generally increased about 2% in prior years, they increased about 11% from 2021 to 2022. Inflation contributed to the increase. But there were other factors—like global disruptions to the food supply chain—that may have had a greater impact. And not everyone felt this increase the same way.