{"id":1459780,"date":"2024-02-28T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1459780"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:05:00","slug":"major-shot-across-bidens-bow-100000-michigan-dems-vote-uncommitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/major-shot-across-bidens-bow-100000-michigan-dems-vote-uncommitted\/1459780\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Shot Across Biden’s Bow: 100,000+ Michigan Dems Vote “Uncommitted”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major Shot Across Biden’s Bow: 100,000+ Michigan Dems Vote “Uncommitted”<\/span><\/p>\n

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An initiative organized by dissident Democrats outraged over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war has sent a powerful shot across the bow of his presidential campaign<\/strong>, as more than 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” in the Michigan primary.<\/p>\n

That’s more than 9 times<\/em> former President Trump’s 10,704-vote victory margin in his 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton,<\/strong> in a critical swing state that will be worth 15 electoral votes in the November general election.\u00a0Critically, that 100,000-voter coalition turned out for a primary election where the conclusion was foregone.\u00a0<\/strong>There are likely many more who share their sentiments but didn’t bother voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With more than 95% of votes counted, “uncommitted” accounted for a hefty 13.3% of the statewide total<\/strong>. Biden had 81.1%, while Marianne Williamson, who suspended her campaign three weeks ago, was edging the still-campaigning Rep. Dean Phillips 3.0% to 2.7%. Wayne County, home of Dearborn and its large Muslim population, saw 21% vote uncommitted with 75% of the count<\/a> completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michigan has one of the largest Muslim populations in America.<\/strong> Angered by Biden’s lop-sided support for Israel and failure to restrain an Israel Defense Forces campaign that has caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties — including a high proportion of children — leaders have promoted a nationwide campaign to “Abandon Biden<\/a>.” An allied effort, under the moniker of “Listen to Michigan<\/a>,” was championed by Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Squad member Rashida Tlaib says she\u2019s \u201cproud\u201d to vote against Biden (\u201dUncommitted\u201d) in the Michigan Democratic primary pic.twitter.com\/fRibYb28w6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Michigan Muslims are sufficiently angry that they’ve threatened to vote Republican in November.<\/strong> They realize the GOP is subservient to the State of Israel, but they credit Republicans for at least being honest about it. Where Biden is concerned, they feel betrayed<\/strong> and lied to, and want to punish him and like-minded Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the run-up to the primary, Biden and his team gingerly yet clumsily attempted to mend relations with Michigan’s Muslims.<\/strong> Biden himself didn’t dare meet with them personally. Instead, Team Biden sent Jewish<\/a> national security advisor Jon Finer for a closed-door meeting in which he told Arab-American political leaders,\u00a0\u201cWe are very well aware that we have [made] missteps<\/a> in the course of responding to this crisis since Oct. 7.”\u00a0 It clearly didn’t work.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t think the uncommitted votes were only cast by Muslims<\/strong>. Progressive leftists and young voters factored in too. In Washtenaw County, home of the University of Michigan, 17% voted uncommitted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Uncommitted are showing Genocide Joe what it means to be committed to humanity.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Mat\u00e9 (@aaronjmate) February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The “uncommitted” movement didn’t just earn publicity and shake the Biden campaign. It’s also expected to result in Michigan actually sending one uncommitted delegate<\/strong> to the Democratic nominating convention. “Under Michigan\u2019s Democratic primary rules, candidates can receive delegates by earning at least 15 percent of the vote in a specific congressional district,” reports the New York Times<\/em><\/a>‘ Zach Johnk. That seems a certainty where Tlaib’s Michigan-12 district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This could be the start of a rolling nightmare for the Biden-Harris campaign. <\/strong>While leftist media and party officials will spin the Michigan result in favor of Biden, it’s made\u00a0a national splash and could ignite a trend that spreads to upcoming states<\/strong>, with Democrats seizing upon the tactic to voice not only disappointment with Biden’s approach to Israel and Gaza, but also to express their long-simmering general dissatisfaction with Biden<\/strong>. A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 48% of Democrats backed the idea of the Democratic Party “finding another candidate to replace Joe Biden<\/a> before the election in November.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Biden remains the candidate, the biggest general-election threat in Michigan isn’t that Muslims and college students will vote Red in November, but that they’ll simply stay home, or cast protest votes <\/strong>for candidates like the Green Party’s Jill Stein. Don’t expect them to vote for independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, who decisively repelled a once-promising block of Kennedy-curious progressives and libertarians with his over-the-top, pro-Israel rhetoric.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 02\/28\/2024 – 11:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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