Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) encouraged residents in her district to vote “with no reservations” and not for President Biden in the upcoming Democratic primary.
In a video shared by the Listen to Michigan campaign, Tlaib stood outside the Ford Civic Center in Dearborn and reminded residents that early voting will be accepted through Saturday.
“As you all know, not only are we marching against genocide, but we are also calling on our congressmen and local electors to make sure that we pass city resolutions across the country, and we are also building voting blocs. “It’s about something like a bullhorn that says enough is enough. We don’t want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction. We want to support life,” Tlaib said. “We want to stand up for all the lives killed in Gaza.”
“I want you to think about these wonderful young children and people who have lost their lives again in Gaza. This is how we raise our voices. Don’t make us any more invisible. Now. , we are completely disgusted.” “Our government is ignoring us and just not looking. If you want us to be more vocal, come here and vote with integrity.” ” she said.
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Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib poses for a selfie with Code Pink for Peace protesters at the Capitol demanding a ceasefire in Gaza on February 15, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Tlaib, the only Palestinian lawmaker, was censured by the House of Commons in November for using the expression “from the river to the sea,” an anti-Semitic slogan calling for the eradication of Israel.
Nevertheless, Taib had raised nearly $3.7 million since the start of the war in Gaza as of earlier this month, a record for a three-term lawmaker who has come under attack from both sides for his criticism of Israel. The AP reported that the event was a fundraiser. press.
Dearborn was named “America’s Jihad Capital” in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month, in which many people covered their faces in kaffiyeh and chanted, “Intifada, intifada,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine is “America is a terrorist state,” he said, as a local imam preached anti-Semitic sermons in a Detroit suburb.
Democratic Mayor Abdullah Hammoud claimed that the Journal’s op-ed “led to an alarming increase in bigoted and Islamophobic rhetoric targeting the City of Dearborn online.”
President Biden speaks to the media while leaving St. Edmund Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on February 17, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
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“Please remain vigilant. Effective immediately, Dearborn Police will increase their presence at all places of worship and major infrastructure points,” he wrote to X.
In late January, Hammoud told CNN that it was “inhumane” for Biden to send a delegation of campaign staff to meet with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Dearborn. He said he felt the president should send a “policy maker” in his place during the civil war. Gaza.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 in Washington, DC, USA. (Graham Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Biden himself visited Michigan in February, but the focus of the trip was to meet with autoworkers and Black community leaders. He was endorsed by the United Auto Workers union.
Biden won Michigan by just 3 points in 2020, and the state is considered a battleground state again in 2024. Tlaib’s call for a “no-commitment” vote was seen as a challenge to the president to meet progressives’ demands on Palestine or lose their support. The Democratic Party will be inaugurated in November.
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Michigan’s Democratic primary election is February 27th.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
