US Congress woman Rep. Tlaib is urging Michigan voters to cast their ballot in Michigan’s presidential primary on Feb. 27 for ‘uncommitted as part of efforts to protest President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s conflict with Hamas.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is getting behind the pro-Palestinian effort to get Michigan Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in the primary instead of casting their primary ballot for President Joe Biden.
Listen to Michigan is a group spearheading the effort to create a ballot protest against Biden’s backing of Israel in its conflict with Hamas terrorists operating out of Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
‘Don’t make us even more invisible. Right now, we feel completely neglected and just unseen by our government,’ Tliab (D-Mich.) said in a video posted on Saturday, speaking as a voice for the Palestinian-American community.
‘If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted,’ the progressive squad member said in informing Michigan voters of a ‘way you can raise our voices.’
Tlaib is the first and only Palestinian-American in Congress and is one of the most prominent voices against Israel and President Biden for supporting the Jewish State.
She officially endorsed on Saturday the Listen to Michigan campaign to get ‘uncommitted’ to beat Biden on the ballot in the state later this month.
Michigan is holding its primary election on Tuesday, February 27 where both Democrats and Republicans will cast their ballots for their preferred presidential nominees.
While Biden is facing virtually no real competition in the Democratic primary, Michigan is a state where progressives are mobilizing to essentially cast a vote of no confidence against the president by voting for ‘uncommitted’ instead of the incumbent.
This would do little to impact the primary election going forward and Biden’s chances of earning the nomination – but would serve as a massive symbolic vote against the president’s handling of the ongoing Middle East conflict.
‘I wanted to remind everyone, please, know that you can early vote today until Feb. 17,’ Tlaib said in a video outside the Ford Civic Center in Dearport, Michigan on Saturday.
‘It is important, as you all know, to not only march against the genocide, not only make sure that we’re calling on members of Congress and local electeds and passing city resolutions all throughout our country. It is also important to create a voting bloc. Something that is a bull horn to say: enough is enough,’ she continued.
‘We don’t want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction,’ Tlaib insisted. ‘We want to support life. We want to stand up for every life killed.’
Hamas terrorists launched a deadly attack in Israel in October, leading to a months-long brutal war between the Palestinian’s de facto government and the Jewish State.
Biden has joined the majority of voices in America and Congress by backing Israel and its right to defend itself against the terrorist group Hamas.
But opposers of this stance, including Tlaib and other progressive lawmakers, claim that Israel is responding to the attack by in-turn committing a genocide against Palestinians.
