Joe Biden is in serious trouble in another upper Midwestern state. New Polls have shown that large segments of the Democratic electorate could be abstaining from voting for him, supporting the “uninstructed” candidate meaning nobody in particular. America’s News Desk reports on what previously happened in Michigan:
Joe Biden’s reelection problems may be getting worse. Like Michigan, another swing state has seen a growing campaign among young liberals who are opposed to Israel’s right to defend itself after the largest terrorist attack in half a century rally to oppose the Democratic president in the primary.
In February, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Detroit, organized a protest vote against Biden in the Mitten State’s primary.
New Conservative Post reported that the congresswoman, who has been accused of fundraising from Hamas, had begun urging to vote “uncommitted” in an effort to undermine Biden’s efforts to support Israel’s war in Gaza.
The ploy worked. The Associated Press noted that “while Biden won the state with more than 618,000 votes, more than 100,000 Michigan Democratic primary voters cast ballots for “uncommitted” in the race, enough to pick up the pair of delegates. The vote totals raise concerns for Democrats in a state Biden won by only 154,000 votes in 2020. Biden was beaten by the “uncommitted” vote in both Dearborn and Hamtramck, where Arab Americans make up close to half the population.”>
NBC News says:
Biden, who has faced protest vote campaigns in several states this year over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, is now confronting one in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary. Young progressives are leading the movement to vote “uninstructed,” the term on the Wisconsin ballot to vote for no candidate or “uncommitted,” to register their opposition to the administration’s response to the situation in Gaza.
Young voters in Democratic strongholds such as Madison and Milwaukee were critical to Biden’s victory in Wisconsin — and the Electoral College overall — in 2020, and they want to make clear to the president that he can’t take them for granted this time around. The Listen to Wisconsin campaign’s goal is to convince 20,000 voters to cast their Democratic primary ballots for “uninstructed,” which was roughly Biden’s margin of victory over then-President Donald Trump in the state four years ago.
Wisconsin’s primaries are open to all registered voters, regardless of party affiliation. In recent Democratic primaries, the uninstructed option has only received a few thousand votes. In 2020, 3,590 people voted uninstructed and in 2016, just 1,436 did. When then-President Barack Obama ran unopposed in 2012, 5,092 people voted uninstructed in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary.
Without a formidable primary challenger from the left to support, progressives have turned to states like Wisconsin with an “uncommitted,” “uninstructed” or “no preference” line on the ballot to voice their opposition to Biden’s Gaza policies.
Wisconsin will vote today, April 2, and his performance among young progressives could decide whether he has a chance to win in November.
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