A national group of Islamic activists called “Abandon Biden” is reportedly organizing efforts in nine battleground states to block President Joe Biden from being re-elected in November as punishment for his handling of the Israeli-Hamas war.
Minneapolis-based newspaper Star Tribune report He spoke Sunday about the group’s efforts to block Biden’s reelection even if he becomes president.
Abdel Salam, 48, is part of a group of Muslim activists, some of whom are from Minnesota, organizing in nine battleground states against President Biden’s reelection, whose leaders say they want to punish him politically for contributing to mass civilian deaths in Gaza.
Salam, a professor of human rights at the University of Minnesota, left campus in April to lead the movement.
The group prioritizes punishing Biden over preventing Trump’s reelection, the report said. Tribune If Biden loses on Israel-Hamas policy, it will be a major move towards making the pro-Palestinian position mainstream in the Democratic Party.
Abdel-Salam said he and other Biden breakaway leaders are evaluating third-party candidates and plan to endorse them this summer. And if they help Trump win, “the big benefit of punishing the president is that the whole party will become pro-Palestinian, against the occupation of Palestine, and will start pushing for fairness much more aggressively than it has been in the past,” he said.
It has been well-documented throughout the election year that discontent among Muslims, Arab Americans, young voters and progressives on the left threatens Biden’s reelection: More than half a million Democratic primary voters protested Biden’s handling of the war, casting a range of “irresponsible” ballots and calling for a ceasefire.
The “Listen to Michigan” campaign that sparked this movement Note The threat to Biden is that these voters will not turn out to vote in November unless there is a major change in policy. The movement has been swayed by Biden’s April demand for a ceasefire from Benjamin Netanyahu and his threat to withhold arms supplies to Israel. Sustained Having won Maryland’s Democratic primary on May 14, and with less than six months until the November election, he is running out of time.
While Maryland is not a real issue for Republicans, moves in Michigan and other battleground states where Trump and Biden had close margins in 2020 could be extremely dangerous for Democrats and Biden, especially since polls already show Trump leading in many of those states.
The group’s website, Abandonbiden24.com, states: Note They are targeting Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Jeilani Hussain, who serves on the National Committee to “Abandon Biden” along with Salam and three others, pointed to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin as states where the Muslim vote could actually affect the outcome of a state’s election.
“Our calculations show no path whatsoever for Biden to win,” Hussein argued. Tribune.
The report comes after a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump made groundbreaking gains among Muslim and Arab American voters in battleground states, with Trump winning 57% of those voters to Biden’s 25%.
“Those who said they voted in the 2020 election reported supporting Biden by a 56-35 margin.” Times Lead political analyst Nate Cohn reported on May 13 that the poll showed sampling Between April 28 and May 9, 4,097 voters registered.
