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(The Guardian) Also declaring victory is Abandon Biden, a group opposed to the president for his support of Israel. “In Michigan’s primary last night, we witnessed not just a rejection of Joe Biden but a searing condemnation of his presidency’s moral vacuity. Election results reveal that precincts with Arab and Muslim American populations have gone from supporting Biden by 90% in 2020 to thoroughly rejecting Biden,” the group said in a press release.
It continued: Our call to ‘Abandon Biden’ wasn’t just heard; it roared across Michigan, echoing our refusal to stand with a president whose policies reek of genocide.
The unprecedented support for ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan makes it clear that complicity in genocide isn’t up for debate. It also signals that what awaits Biden in November isn’t a guaranteed victory. And what awaits the Democratic Party is irrelevance.
Here’s more on the “uncommitted” campaign’s success in the Michigan Democratic primary, from the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland: Standing before shimmering gold curtains on Tuesday evening, the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, spoke with pride about his city. “We had the audacity to choose people over political party,” he said. “We had the damn audacity to put people over president.”
For many gathered at this sprawling banquet hall in the heart of America’s most concentrated Muslim population, the outcome of last night’s Democratic primary in Michigan was beyond even the boldest of predictions.
Although Joe Biden took the state, it was the hastily organized but committed grassroots campaign against the president’s support for the Israeli government’s war with Gaza that took the night. Organizers with Listen to Michigan, a group that urged voters to withdraw support for Biden and instead vote uncommitted, had hoped for a showing of 10,000 votes. They returned more than 100,000 – a clear demonstration of the growing fractures among the diverse coalition that brought Biden to power in 2020.
It is a warning shot to the Democratic party, and shows more signs of expanding than diminishing as the primary season wears on.
It continued: Our call to ‘Abandon Biden’ wasn’t just heard; it roared across Michigan, echoing our refusal to stand with a president whose policies reek of genocide.
The unprecedented support for ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan makes it clear that complicity in genocide isn’t up for debate. It also signals that what awaits Biden in November isn’t a guaranteed victory. And what awaits the Democratic Party is irrelevance.
Here’s more on the “uncommitted” campaign’s success in the Michigan Democratic primary, from the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland: Standing before shimmering gold curtains on Tuesday evening, the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, spoke with pride about his city. “We had the audacity to choose people over political party,” he said. “We had the damn audacity to put people over president.”
For many gathered at this sprawling banquet hall in the heart of America’s most concentrated Muslim population, the outcome of last night’s Democratic primary in Michigan was beyond even the boldest of predictions.
Although Joe Biden took the state, it was the hastily organized but committed grassroots campaign against the president’s support for the Israeli government’s war with Gaza that took the night. Organizers with Listen to Michigan, a group that urged voters to withdraw support for Biden and instead vote uncommitted, had hoped for a showing of 10,000 votes. They returned more than 100,000 – a clear demonstration of the growing fractures among the diverse coalition that brought Biden to power in 2020.
It is a warning shot to the Democratic party, and shows more signs of expanding than diminishing as the primary season wears on.
