Biden, a supposed foreign policy pragmatist, doesn’t seem bothered that the US is one of the few states that continues to wholeheartedly sustain Israel’s war on Gaza. In fact, Biden has staked his political future on his support for Netanyahu and Israel – and Biden is losing. In this year’s presidential election, where he will most likely face Donald Trump once again, Biden has already lost support among young progressives, Black and Arab American voters, who are all rightfully angry at his refusal to restrain Israel.
Biden allies are raising the alarm that he could lose Michigan, a swing state with substantial Black, Arab and Muslim American voting blocs, because of his Middle East policies. Congressman Ro Khanna, a Biden supporter and progressive Democrat from California who has tried to mediate between Biden’s campaign and Michigan Democrats, warned his team this week: “We cannot win Michigan with status quo policy.”
The Biden administration has consistently underplayed the leverage it has over Israel and Netanyahu. “I think that sometimes people pretend that the United States of America has a magic wand that it can wave to make any situation in the world roll out in exactly the way that we would want it to and that is never the case,” Matthew Miller, the state department spokesperson, said at a press conference on 12 February.
Miller’s flippant comment raises an important question: if Biden can’t use billions of dollars in military aid – and the ability to literally cut off Israel’s supply of bombs – to force Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, what could Biden do with a magic wand?
Just for context, there were 100K protest votes but Biden won Michigan by over 150K in 2020
Biden is losing Michigan according to the polls. In fact, he’s losing 5/6 battleground states that he won last time.
It’s looking grim for him in November. His only hope is Trump gets thrown in jail or has a stroke.
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Or stop committing Genocide
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Stop trying to make President Genocide happen. It’s not going to happen.
Michigan primary voters in 2020: ~1,6 Million
Michigan primary voters in 2024: ~900 Thousand.
The one where Bernie “lesser evil’d” everyone over the line to vote for Biden is not a good comparison. This one is looking a lot more like the 2016 Hillary one than the 2020 one.
Let’s not forget the Biden campaign spent significant money on ads in Michigan and still ate dirt.
The numbers I quoted were for the general, not the primary. We can’t draw too many conclusions from a protest vote in a state where they all knew he was gonna win anyways. It’s one of the reasons they were able to voice their concerns like this. Biden wasn’t really being challenged so why not use your voice to put a number on just how many people aren’t all-in on Joe?
Remind me who won Michigan in 2016 because they decided they could just ignore it. Was it Hillary Clinton?
100k protest votes from the primary, which usually had less turnout compared to the general election. In this year’s primary you had uncommitted as 13% of the votes. Can Biden afford to lose 13% of his voters in the general election?