• The “Abandon Biden” campaign aims to prevent President Joe Biden from winning a second term, with efforts in various battleground states including Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina. It is being strengthened.
• The group is calling on Arab Americans, Muslim Americans and other Democrats who oppose Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip to choose someone other than Biden in the presidential primaries and general election. We encourage you to vote.
• “You'll find that a lot of people may stay home and vote third party, and some may cross over and vote Republican, but in any case, Michigan , so that's going to be a big issue,'' Adolph Mongo, a Michigan-based Democratic strategist, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

A national organization firmly opposed to President Joe Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war hopes to prevent him from securing a second term in November by mobilizing voters in various battleground states.

The “Abandon Biden” campaign is appealing to Arab and Muslim Americans, as well as those who disagree with the president's support for Israel, which it deems a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Tuesday's Michigan primary. encouraged people to vote against Biden. More than 144,000 people opposed Biden abandons Democratic nominee Biden is focused on ramping up efforts in other presidential battleground states ahead of the general election, a founding member of his national campaign told the Daily Caller News Foundation. (Related article: Massive protest vote puts a damper on Biden's Michigan primary win)

“We will focus specifically on Georgia because, when combined with Michigan, it becomes another state where it will be numerically next to impossible for Joe Biden to win a second term. “And we want to make sure that.'' We want to punish him for his complicity in war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and make sure he becomes a one-term president.'' We are thinking about it,” Khalid Tourani, who also serves on the group’s national leadership committee, told DCNF. . “But we're not going to take any chances, so we're going to tackle Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.”

Thulani said Biden is also focusing on states not normally considered presidential battlegrounds, such as Minnesota and Virginia, to make it “more difficult” for incumbents to be re-elected.

The campaign is encouraging these voters, who typically support Democrats by wide margins, to vote against Biden, but it is not endorsing any particular candidate.

In the primaries, these voters may support Mr. Biden's Democratic challengers, self-help author Marianne Williamson or Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, write in candidates, or state that offers a choice. They could vote “without reservation” or vote in a Republican race. Possible. A variety of third-party candidates could appeal to these voters in the general election, and some may support former President Donald Trump, who is likely to be the Republican nominee.

However, Thulani stressed that he did not believe anyone in his movement would vote for the former president.

Thulani, who calls the president “Genocide Joe,” told DCNF that “I would not cut off the nose of anyone other than Biden, regardless of his face.”

Mr. Trump already leads Mr. Biden in several battleground states where Mr. Biden is invested. arizona, georgia, north carolina, nevada, wisconsin and michigan, according to RealClearPolitics average.Biden outperforms Trump pennsylvania Only 0.8 points difference.

The former president won North Carolina in both elections. 2016 and 2020, but lost Nevada in both cycles. Trump narrowly captured Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania in 2016, but lost all of them to Biden in the next election.

Mike McKenna, a Republican political consultant and president of MWR Strategies, warned of the electoral impact the “abandon Biden” campaign could have on the president's re-election chances.

McKenna told the DCNF: “This is a big deal, because it formalizes and imposes social sanctions on the declining enthusiasm of young people and the left, which was already a problem for the Biden team.'' That could be a problem.”

Veteran Republican strategist Mark Weaver echoed McKenna's sentiments, telling DCNF that the Biden campaign is “definitely suffering from this trend.”

“Joe Biden has lost support among young voters on the left and voters who support Hamas' attacks on Israeli civilians,” Weaver said. “These are a small portion of the overall electorate, but they could make a difference in important states like Michigan. They probably won't vote for Trump either, but they probably won't participate in the presidential election. ”

A similar campaign was launched in Michigan, home to the country's largest Arab-American and Muslim-American population, over Biden's reluctance to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and his support for providing aid to Israel. He insisted on voting in protest against Mr. Biden because of his actions. The “Listen to Michigan” campaign encouraged Arab and Muslim communities and the Democratic Party as a whole to leverage their votes by supporting a “non-committal” voting option in the primary.

More than 100,000 Michiganders who participated in the Democratic primary voted “irresponsible,” making up a 13.2% share. Only 19,106 and 21,601 of Democratic primary voters supported the voting option. 2020 and 2016respectively, comprised less than 2% of support in each cycle.

biden won In 2020, his difference in battleground states was just 154,000 votes, giving him about a three-point lead over the former president.

Additionally, the former president received about 135,000 more votes than Biden on Tuesday. Trump defeated former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican primary by about 42 points. saw Attendance was nearly 40% higher than in the Democratic race.

Michigan-based Democratic strategist Adolph Mongo told DCNF that Tuesday's preliminary results were a “warning sign” for Biden's re-election campaign.

“You'll find that a lot of people may stay home and vote third party, and some may cross over and vote Republican, but in any case, Michigan , so that's going to be a big issue,” Mongo said. . “The president or vice president is going to have to come to states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota. They're going to have to fight for it, Arizona.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Michigan counterpart implemented the withdrawal. poll The results found that 94% of Muslim Americans who participated in Tuesday's Democratic primary voted “irresponsibly.” The survey also asked respondents who they would support in the general election, with Biden leading by 8 percentage points to Trump, Justice for All Party candidate Cornel West, and “other.” It became the rank.

Jason Cavell Roe, a Michigan-based Republican consultant, said he believed there was “no simple answer” to Biden's Israel issue and warned that it could affect the election. .

“He can stay with the status quo in Israel and risk alienating this progressive and Arab coalition, or he can change his position and risk alienating another part of the coalition. I don’t think we can make a good turnaround from where we are,” Law told DCNF. “I don't think there's a path to the White House without a win in Michigan. And I think if you're winning Michigan, you're probably winning Pennsylvania, and you're probably winning Wisconsin, too. . So I think he has a really serious problem.”

In an interview with DCNF, Lexis Zeidan, one of the lead organizers of Listen to Michigan, praised the “committed” results, with well over 10,000 votes cast. threshold The campaign was expected.

“We will work with activists in other states to help them replicate this strategy,” Zeidan said. “And seeing that at least two delegates got to go to the meeting, [Democratic National Convention]We're going to organize to counter these efforts and make sure we have a delegation in Chicago as well. ”

The spokesperson stressed that the purpose of the campaign was not to “sway the outcome of the election,” but to send a message to the Biden administration that expects changes in its positions and policies ahead of November.

“The road to the White House goes through Michigan,” Zeidan said. “We've made our position clear that we're anti-war, peaceful, pro-Palestinian state. And if you don't agree with those values, Michigan is actually not a state you can win.”

The Biden campaign did not respond to DCNF's request for comment.

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