TLAIB IS NOT BACKING BIDEN EVEN THOUGH HE PRAISED THE PALESTINIAN BITCH FOR BEING A FIGHTER

Arab Americans in Michigan demand Biden STEP DOWN 'as soon as possible' and insist they will NEVER support him: Progressive fury grows over Joe's Gaza policy in swing state that could decide the election

Arab Americans pushing for a vote for 'uncommitted' instead of Biden. A strong showing by 'uncommitted' could hurt Biden's chances in general election in a battleground state that could decide the election 

 

By Emily Goodin

 

Daily Mail

Feb 20, 2024

 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is endorsing the effort to vote 'uncommitted' instead of backing President Joe Biden in the Michigan primary election on February 27

 

Arab American organizations in Michigan are urging President Joe Biden to 'step down' as they push for Democratic voters in the state to cast their ballot for 'uncommitted' in the February 27th primary.

Arab Americans have been furious with the president since the Israeli-Hamas war began in October. Biden has strongly backed Israel's counter strikes in the West Bank. In Gaza, the Health Ministry said the death toll had risen to 29,092 since the start of the war with around two-thirds of them women and children.

Now that anger could have political consequences in a state that could decide which contender wins the White House in November.  

'He's got to do the right thing for the party and for … the country itself, and he should step down as soon as possible,' Hassan Abdel Salam, a member of the Abandon Biden National Coalition, told The Hill newspaper.

'He's deeply toxic, and we will never ever support him. He can't do anything for us to support him. No one can tolerate a policy of death that lasts this long; people have to be held to account.'

The Abandon Biden movement is targeting the president in the battleground states where withholding the vote could hurt him the most: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, and Florida.

Additionally, the Michigan branch has hosted meetings with third-party candidates such as Jill Stein and Cornel West to give voters an alternative option to the president.

Even though Biden faces only token primary opposition, Michigan is one state where he could face a serious challenge on the ballot due to the 'uncommitted' option for voters.

Over the weekend, progressive Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib urged voters in the state to pick 'uncommitted' over the president in the primary.

 'This is the way you can raise our voices,' Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, said. 'Right now, we feel completely neglected and just unseen by our government. If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted.'

By voting 'uncommitted,' Tlaib said the goal is to 'create a voting bloc, something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough. We don't want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction. We want to support life.' 

Biden has been to Michigan to meet with union members but hasn't met with any Arab American groups. Vice President Kamala Harris is going to Michigan on Thursday to talk reproductive rights.

 

People gather in support of Palestinians outside of the venue where President Joe Biden is speaking to members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Michigan

Protesters greeted Biden during his February 1st trip to the battleground state

 

The state is also competitive in the 2024 general election, where it is looking more and more likely Biden will face a rematch with Donald Trump. The former president also has campaigned heavily in the state. 

In Michigan, more than 10,000 voters cast their ballots in the state's presidential primary this past weekend - the first two days of early voting. Republicans are also choosing their presidential candidate. 

A solid showing for 'uncommitted' in the Democratic primary could signal trouble for Biden in the November general election.

Biden carried Michigan by 154,188 votes in 2020. The state has a thriving Arab-American community.

If the anger at him remains, the president risks losing some Arab American voters to third-party candidates or others may simply stay home.

Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, which has a large Arab American population, wrote of the group's anger in an op-ed in the New York Times.

'My greatest fear is that Mr. Biden will not be remembered as the president who saved American democracy in 2020 but rather as the president who sacrificed it for Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024,' he wrote.  

The White House has taken the situation seriously and, last week, sent a group of senior officials to meet with Arab-American leaders in the state. More than 200,000 registered voters in the state are Muslim.

Participants told USA Today the officials conceded there had been 'mistakes and missteps' in the response to the war in Gaza and apologized for how the administration has talked publicly about Palestinians.