Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the dirty word “irresponsible” has surfaced for Joe Biden’s campaign.
Tens of thousands of voters on Super Tuesday sent a message to President Biden, choosing to mark their ballots as “uncommitted” rather than vote for the Democratic incumbent. Progressive groups are backing Biden’s “irresponsible” vote to protest his support for Israel and continued war with terrorist group Hamas in Gaza, a movement that has sparked an onslaught of negative press against Biden. became.
NBC News ran a headline that read, “‘A clarion call’: Democratic donors warn Biden about ‘uncommitted’ strength,” reporting that wealthy progressives were very concerned.
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Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, helped push for a “no-commitment” vote. (Getty)
The “uncommitted” option appeared on Democratic ballots in seven Super Tuesday states: Minnesota, Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee, each of which swung a sizable amount of support from the president. The Super Tuesday “non-commit” vote comes just one week after leaders of Michigan’s Arab American and Muslim communities, one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States, called on voters not to support Biden. It was done later.
“Democratic mega-donor networks are alarmed by Joe Biden’s performance in Michigan. The traction of ‘uncommitted’ support in last week’s Democratic presidential primary was driven by It’s a ‘wake-up call’ for the president,” NBC said. News published a memo from Way to Win, a hub for liberal donors.
“More than 100,000 non-voters in Michigan in 2024 is a siren and a clarion call,” Way to Win co-founders wrote in a memo obtained by NBC News. “The energy behind ‘non-commitment’ is not something that should be ignored, downplayed, or dismissed as isolated to Michigan. Just as 2016 Michigan was not an anomaly, 2024 is not an anomaly. Michigan State in 2019 is no exception.”
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Members of the “Listen to Michigan” group urge voters to vote for independents instead of U.S. President Joe Biden during the Michigan presidential primary election night watch party in Dearborn on February 27, 2024. Natalia Katie places a placard in front of her. . (Getty)
New York Times political reporter Jonathan Wiseman said Biden “survived yet another embarrassment in the Minnesota primary, where ‘irresponsible’ won about 46,000 votes (19% of the total).” Stated.
Another New York Times report headlined, “‘Dedicated’ effort to protest Biden will shift focus to Washington state,” noting that labor unions and American Federation of Teachers Seattle chapter oppose Biden. He pointed out that he supports “dedicated” activities.
“It influences them and gives them hope that they can make their voices heard by the president and the party,” a Palestinian-American member of the local city council told the Times.
But the Times said, “The late push that helped ‘dedicated’ efforts in Michigan and Minnesota may not have the same effect as Washington conducts elections entirely by mail.” ” he pointed out.
The paper also noted that Biden’s aides have “expressed little concern about the long-term impact of ‘noncommittal’ votes.”
“They claim there are still months left before the Gaza conflict subsides and Mr. Biden regains the Democrats they wanted to send a message to him. , also notes that in 2012, the ‘uncommitted’ won against President Barack Obama by double-digit percentages in “several states,” the Times reported.
‘No-commitment’ protest vote against Biden draws tens of thousands on Super Tuesday
Tens of thousands of Super Tuesday voters sent messages to President Biden, choosing to mark their ballots as “uncommitted” rather than vote for the 81-year-old. (Photo by Mark Piscotti/Getty Images)
Many other media outlets have also spotlighted anti-Biden efforts.
NPR ran the headline, “‘No Commitment’ Movement Spreads to Super Tuesday States,” and Al Jazeera said, “Minnesota’s ‘Surprising’ No Commitment Vote Reveals Persistent Problems for Biden.” It was reported.
Minnesota’s Star Tribune reported, “A push by progressive Minnesotans and members of the Muslim community to get voters to check out ‘irresponsible’ in the state’s Democratic presidential primary fell far short of its 5,000-vote goal on Tuesday. “It received nearly 46,000 votes, more than the previous year,” and USA Today also featured it. An explainer about how “uncommitment” took place across the country.
As the past two elections have shown, a difference of a few thousand votes can determine victory in key battleground states and, with it, the presidency. Trump narrowly won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2016, propelling him to the White House, while Biden recaptured those states and narrowly won Arizona and Georgia. .
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Despite being “irresponsibly” bombarded with negative attention, the Biden campaign has remained ostensibly calm.
“The president believes that having your voice heard and participating in our democracy is fundamental to being an American,” Biden campaign press secretary Lauren Hitt told NPR.
Fox News Digital’s Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.
