{"id":1460544,"date":"2024-03-03T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1460544"},"modified":"2024-03-03T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T03:30:00","slug":"team-biden-braces-for-more-uncommitted-protest-votes-on-super-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/team-biden-braces-for-more-uncommitted-protest-votes-on-super-tuesday\/1460544\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Biden Braces For More ‘Uncommitted’ Protest Votes On Super Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Biden Braces For More ‘Uncommitted’ Protest Votes On Super Tuesday <\/span><\/p>\n

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President Biden’s path to the Democratic nomination could become one of serial humiliation. As Super Tuesday looms, Team Biden is hoping the embarrassment they endured in Michigan — where more than 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” as a form of protest — isn’t repeated\u00a0<\/strong>in contests\u00a0across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Motivated largely by anger over Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war,\u00a0<\/strong>Michigan’s uncommitted drive exceeded organizers’ expectations, with a hefty 13.3% of Democratic voters opting to repudiate the incumbent. The tally was large enough that two of the state’s 117 delegates<\/a> at the Democratic national convention will be free to vote as they please, though it seems likely that state party officials will pick Biden loyalists for the slots anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michigan’s significant Muslim population led the effort, but disenchanted progressives and college students also played a key role<\/strong> — and could do so again in upcoming primaries.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re absolutely not some voting bloc to take for granted,\u201d leftist political consultant and former AOC confidante Corbin Trent tells the\u00a0New York Post<\/em><\/a>. “Biden is a general election threat to Democrats.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

if you live in Minnesota, please join me in voting \u201cuncommitted\u201d in the Democratic primary on Tuesday to show Biden he must stop supporting Israel\u2019s war on Gaza pic.twitter.com\/uvxyPdGV7f<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nathan Goldman (@nathangoldman) March 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Eight of the 16 Super Tuesday states have either an “uncommitted” or write-in option on the ballot:\u00a0Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont<\/strong>, according to the Post<\/em>. Given it’s the home of the country’s largest Somali population, Minnesota is a state where uncommitted votes are more likely make waves <\/strong>for the Biden-Harris campaign.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA majority of us have voted for Biden before, but this time I don\u2019t think we should vote for him,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a026-year-old Minnesotan Abdifatah Abdi told Associated Press<\/a><\/em>. Abdi says he’s thinking of voting for Trump, shrugging off the former president’s Muslim immigration ban in pursuit of the better of two evils. “Trump may be for a ban. But what is worse, a ban or the killing?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes amid Israel’s massive retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel. Defying global condemnation, the Biden administration has steadfastly stood by the Israeli government,<\/strong> to include not only arming and funding it, but vetoing United Nations resolutions calling for a ceasefire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Colorado is another state to keep an eye on<\/strong>. Inspired by Tuesday’s result in Michigan, the Colorado Palestine Coalition and Democratic Socialists of America launched a “Vote Noncommitted Colorado” drive on Wednesday.\u00a0That’s a very late start compared to Michigan’s effort that spanned weeks.\u00a0“We figured if there’s a way to make some waves and let our discontent be known<\/strong>, we might as well,” Grace Thorvilson tells Axios Denver<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A New York Times<\/em>\/Siena poll released<\/a> over the weekend found that only 23% of Democratic voters are enthused about Biden,\u00a0<\/strong>with 32% either dissatisfied or angry about having him atop the ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 03\/03\/2024 – 17:30<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/team-biden-braces-more-uncommitted-protest-votes-super-tuesday<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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